Another Attempt at The Lord of the Rings
One More For the Road: Another Attempt at The Lord of the Rings ‘I’ll have to put my hands up here and admit that despite trying twice over the years, I have never been able to get much more than under half-way through The Lord of the Rings. I know, I know; some of you will dismiss me immediately for uttering such a heresy but the fact remains: whilst I could admire Tolkien’s intellectual achievement in creating a world that many...
Tom Strong: Book One
Utterly Rampant, Out-of-Control Racism in Comic Books! Tom Strong: Book One Down from the Attic: 1 I mentioned a while back that I had, last Christmas, been up in the attic of the house where I once lived, and there came across a treasure trove of golden oldies. In fact, how the Hell I forgot these beauties is a mystery. Well, maybe not; the end of a relationship and all that. Anyway, I decided I would review the batch some...
One Foot in the Grave and the Other on a Banana Skin
There’s a very funny episode of Two and a Half Men where Charlie Sheen has his therapy group round and they include Sean Penn, Elvis Costello and Harry Dean Stanton – all playing themselves and bitching about getting old. One of them is bemoaning the fact that they have to get up to use the bathroom at least three times during the night. “Yeah”, drawls Harry Dean; “and sometimes you just don’t bother getting up”. Well,...
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