H’mm – still no luck finding any decent info about Claudia Winkleman – the best I’ve come up with is some stuff on the BBC website, which has got a nice-ish picture.

I’m a regular reader of the Metro newspaper (mainly because it’s free and gives me something to do on the train), and they have just started carrying a new cartoon strip called Nemi (that site is actually an unofficial fan site, but it has English translations of the strip). It is a work of comic genius rivalled only by Dilbert, and the occasional Peanuts or Garfield.
Particularly good ones are lord of the rings 1, and 2, tattoo, and let’s finish with studentloan, and her nipple!

Enjoy!

An all time record of four days on the trot!!

Thought I’d give a quick mention to Claudia Winkleman. As I’ve mentioned before I am kind of into Fame Academy – but I think the real star of the show is the aforementioned BBC3 presenter. She’s absolutely barking mad and totally surreal, but in a cute furry animal type way. I am hugely enjoying watching the daily update shows, mainly because she is so entertaining.
Anyway, I tried to find a fansite for her to link to, but Google came up with a link to pictures of her with her tits out (and you don’t want to get me started on how much it bugs me that almost any search you do ends up with porn these days.)

H’mm – there was another website I was going to mention, but once again I’ve forgotten it. Ah well. Happy Wednesday (I’m happy ‘cos I’m going out for a meal with the missus tonight).

Oh go on then – a friend just e-mailed me the kitten ace of spades

Trying to keep up the momentum with my blog, which isn’t as hard as it sounds as the alternative is doing PhD work. I’m supposed to submit in about 3 weeks, but there’s not much danger of that happening – looks like I’ll have to register for another year. It’s much harder to be motivated when I know that I don’t have to submit for another 13 months!

Still, realistically I do need to have it all done and dusted by Christmas, as January onwards will be crazy mad with teaching and with new baby.

I’m still discovering the wonders of CSS – it really is pretty good stuff. Come October when there’ll be a little less pressure on me, I’m going to relaunch eutony.net in a blaze of CSS wonder!

Good weekend away – went camping in Appletreewick with our house group from church. I’ve not been camping for about 3 years (and my shoulder aches), but it was good fun. The only not so fun bit was waking up at 5am on Sunday dying for a pee, and having to clamber over the missus, find my wellies and coat, and walk to the shower/toilet block, which was right at the other end of the campsite. Still, it’s what camping is all about!

On a different note, I’ve been playing around with the web-site – it’s moved to a new host (hostcolor.com), where for 25 bucks a year I get 20Mb of webspace but with cgi type stuff like PHP and MySQL. This means I can finally move into the 21st century, and get some dynamic content going. I’m just in the process of moving all my reviews into the SQL database, then I’ll knock together a front-end. Then I’ll think about putting this blog type thing into the database! Then I’ll weave some CSS magic, and we’ll be rocking. Anyway, the setup was very quick and easy, and as far as I can tell they seem to be pretty good hosts. I guess time will tell…

Last thought – I’ve been playing SOCOM online on the PS2, and thought I ought to mention the Old Age Playstationers, or [OAP]s. It’s a group that was created in response to the abundence of teenagers playing SOCOM, and consists of more mature players (all members are over 27) who have more refined conversation, prefer to use the headset for tactical play (rather than shouting/swearing!), and who have other demands on their time (like jobs, familes, etc). I certainly find it a haven of calm to go into an [OAP] room after playing in a normal game! But I’m just an old fart, I guess!!!

Justice is done – Barry is evicted!

I don’t have anything against him personally, you understand, but he has never acted or looked the part (e.g. “I don’t have to go on Top of the Pops if I’m a pop star”), and I think it’s a traversty that Louise was thrown out before him (although maybe Jensen’s performance will improve now?)

Tom Hanks and Leo DiCaprio star in this film based on the true story of Frank Abignal Jr, conman extrordinaire in the 60s and 70s.
A really quite engaging story – you can’t help liking Frank, despite him defrauding several million dollars – he’s got panache!
And it’s sort of everyone’s dream, to put on a pilot’s uniform, and waltz in to an airport and get free flights to wherever! And it’s telling how he gets sucked into that world without noticing that he has – he’s quite at ease in a posh restaurant (with chilled salad forks!), wearing designer clothes, that sort of thing.
But he still keeps his childlikeness – he is clearly also out of his depth on several occasions, and resorts to telling the real truth.. and every time he does nobody believes him.
I suppose most of all it’s a story about broken family relationships, and the effect it has on the 16 year old who is forced to choose between whether his mother or father has custody over him! (answer, it makes him run away and become a conman!)

Seen at Ster Century, Leeds

Have remembered one of the other websites – realgetawaytour has a couple of lads doing the missions from The getaway in real life! 🙂

Been pondering the nature of fame, mainly because we’ve been following Fame Academy on the Beeb in my house (sad, but true). Why is it that some of the contestants just look `right’ on stage performing (Louise, Peter, Alex, to some extent James, …), while others look like they’ve clambered up on stage at their local’s karaoke night? (most notably Barry – what’s he still doing there – but some of the others already gone too). I was actually a bit disappointed with this week’s results – I can’t see how Barry really deserves to be there over any of this week’s bottom three.

So of course weblogs are an attempt to grab some of this limelight – even the Church Times did a little feature on them last week. And how post-modern ironic is it for a (would-be) blogger to speculate on the meanings of blogging. Or something.

On a different note, came across a couple of most groovy websites recently – first mention goes to tv.cream.org, a site which (despite the title) is jam packed full of TV memorabilia, including MP3 theme tunes of all those fab 70/80s TV shows (Bagpuss, Thunderbirds, the A-Team, Airwolf, The Adventure Game, Treasure Hunt, …). Sad man that I am I keep listening to the theme to Knight Rider as I do my research. Also, remember The Fall Guy? (Lee Majors as “Colt Seavers” – great lyrics too:

I’m not the kind to kiss and tell, but I’ve been seen with Farrah
I’ve never been with anything less than a nine – so fine.
I’ve been on fire with Sally Field, gone fast with a girl named Bo,
But somehow they just don’t end up as mine!
It’s a death defying life I lead, I take my chances.
I’d die for living in the movies and TV.
But the hardest do I ever do, is watch my leading ladies
Kiss some other guy while I’m bandaging my knee,

I might fall from a tall building or roll a brand new car
‘Cos I’m the unknown stuntman that made Redford such a star.

I’m fairly sure that ‘Farrah’ would be Farrah Fawcett, who I’m also sure occasionally appeared on the show, which makes it all deliciously self-aware (the best known female co-star was, of course, Heather Thomas).
The site also has a description of each TV programme, the highs and lows if you like (I’ve gotten burned over Cheryl Tiegs (who??), blown up for Rachel Welch” – Ahh, the mighty Goggle tells me Cheryl Tiegs was a model at the time that tune was written.)

Dragging myself away (It’s me no-no, small robot you know), the next site to get a mention is… um.. well I can’t remember what it was now! Having the “Tales of the Unexpected” thinkling in my ears probably isn’t helping my concentration. Well, probably enough for one day anyway (Goodie goodie yum yum).