
It’s good to see Hollywood finally recognising the dramatic potential of a movie about co-operative shadow puppetry.
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A personal weblog written by Christopher Miles, an author and website developer living in Melbourne, Australia.
Regular topics include books and publishing, technology and the internet, parenting, and Doctor Who.

It’s good to see Hollywood finally recognising the dramatic potential of a movie about co-operative shadow puppetry.

Oh, It’s Just an 8 x Life-size Colour Pencil Rendering of Page 1 of The New York Times, 11/09/2001. Luke Hand, pencil on paper, 2011

Incredible LEGO® MOC of the Russell T. Davies era TARDIS console from Doctor Who. Be sure to check out some of Mr. Xenomurphy’s other LEGO® MOCs, including this LEGO® vignette featuring Lady Cassandra from the 2005 Doctor Who episode ‘The End of the World’.
As the Ninth Doctor himself might have said, “Give the man a medal”.

In case it’s not immediately apparent, that’s a Pacman sculpted from canned food. The cans were later distributed to food bank charities as part of the annual Canstruction competition.
You can probably guess what I thought when I saw this.
If their letterhead’s this good, their website must be awesome.
“What are you going to do, sucker me to death?”

Lacrosse is the most popular sport on the planet Mongo.

As one of my Twitter friends noted, “Grandad looks as though he has just been handed a glass of post-war existential despair.”
(ryan k)

Apparently this kind of doll is called a ‘dunny toy’. But I imagine you can play with them in whichever room you wish.
Even Ian Fleming would have baulked at using this title. Though surely he would’ve been within his rights to sue: the strapline even refers to an ‘Agent 0008’ (“Yeah, chuck an extra zero on. Oh, and change the ‘7’ to an ‘8’ while you’re at it. What? Well, no. Not a lawyer exactly.”)
“Because she now favoured women for love, each arrow she shot at her male assistant seemed to be aimed closer to castrate him.”
From the ‘Rejected White Stripes album covers’ file.
“He made a fantastic bargain with creatures from another world — the loan of his brain in exchange for an unearthly legacy.”
I wonder if this Frank Frazetta illustration was the inspiration for Tom Cho’s ‘Cock Rock’?
A sequel was planned, but for reasons never adequately explained, Signet declined to publish the tantalisingly-titled Who Rogered Professor Murder?
(Uilke)
Nothing about this makes sense.

I can’t approve of this. Neither of them are nude, for a start.
(Uilke)
I for one welcome our lascivious and oddly loose-wristed green robot overlords.
(Uilkie)
Either the photo on the cover is genuine documentary evidence or the art director has an uncanny eye for verisimilitude, because those dudes look exactly right.
Fantastic use of the Eurostile typeface — but so much pink.

My go-to outfit in hot, sticky weather.