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Otterly astounding
Before I left for work this morning, I posted a photo-set on Tumblr called Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch. Too flimsy to be worth posting on Livejournal, I thought: just the sort of quick...
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Viewers, you catch me at a moment of great performance anxiety. You see, I really ought to do SOMETHING to follow up Otters Who Look Like Benedict Cumberbatch and hopefully capitalize on its unexpected...
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Light in your head and dead on your feet
Whoops, I seem to have acquired the nasty habit of posting quick silliness to my Tumblr and neglecting my LJ, with the vague hope that I shall return when I have something more substantial to say....
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Sherlock road signs: not everything else is transport!
Most people blunder round this city, and all they see are streets and shops and cars. When you walk with me, however, you see things and think "Hmm, I could probably turn THAT into a piece of...
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According to this interview in the New York Times (see page 2), Benedict Cumberbatch has seen my post about the otters who look like him, and says they are “brilliant” and “fantastic”.That noise you...
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Back with Avengeance
On one of my occasional sorties in search of new fannish thrills, I went to see The Avengers, or as it's ambitiously known in British cinemas, Marvel Avengers Assemble Somewhere Convenient And Complain...
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Specially formulated for villainous hair!
Some Avengers-inspired silliness for you, and thus containing very mild Avengers spoilers.If Thor uses Th'Oréal, I thought that Loki deserved his own haircare range. Well, not so much deserved as...
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Avengeance continues to be mine
To those of my readers who have no interest in The Avengers in any form, I apologize. But if my imagination has found a fannish oasis in the wilderness of Waiting For Any Decent TV To Come On, I may as...
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Oh, those Russians
In the interests of lavishing some Avengers attention on characters other than Loki, here's the Black Widow explaining the possible rationale behind her weapons of choice. (I confess, I am recycling a...
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And when David Cassidy grows angry or outraged, a startling metamorphosis...
"If the Avengers are the Partridge Family, Nick Fury is Reuben Kincaid." – Joss WhedonWhen I first read the above quote, my retro-infused imagination immediately seized upon the words "the Avengers are...
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A quiver with silliness
In the interests of getting all the potential Avengers jokes out of my head before the ever-speedy progress of the pop-culture zeitgeist renders them null and void, here's a bit more movie-inspired...
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There are secret paths between the worlds (please drive carefully)
In a fit of Avengers-inspired enthusiasm, I rewatched Thor recently and the following piece of silliness popped out.Tumblr linkPerhaps one does not simply walk into Asgard, but I reckon Loki has...
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Sorry mate, you're Bard
In my perennial search for decent telly, I'm keenly watching The Hollow Crown, a star-studded adaptation of four of Shakespeare's history plays. In order to sell these landmarks of timeless poetry to...
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"In his nakedness he appears but a man..."
Still watching The Hollow Crown, still enjoying it. This week it was time for Henry IV, Part 2, which is rather a rambling play, full of kingly angst interspersed with weird jokey Falstaff scenes that...
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Runny doesn't suit you. I'd stick to ice...
Now that the British summer is in full swing (or as temporarily swinging as it ever gets, with occasional showers), I'm having a couple of weeks off work. And since Parade's End is hitting the BBC...
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Silent but deadly delicious
More Sherlock whimsy from me, and once again on the theme of food. You might be fooled into thinking I had a one-track mind. (Actually, it's two-track: food AND Cumberbatchery.)Anyway, the...
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So put that in your blaster and shoot it...
So Doctor Who is back on our screens and the return of Downton Abbey is imminent, two events that bring both televisual fulfillment and televisual frustration to millions. However, it struck me that...
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The Power of Three left me here to do the thinking
We interrupt this tumbleweed-strewn tranquillity of this journal to bring you a Doctor Who public service announcement.Tumblr linkAnd now, I shall excitedly wait for 6th October, which brings the...
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For filth, I'm glad to say, is in the mind of the beholder...
You may have noticed the recent boom in naughty novels and a subsequent massive rise (oo-err!) in the desire of publishers to shove sex scenes into everything from Jane Eyre to Alice in Wonderland, all...
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Throw off your mental Banes
It's that time of year, folks. Time to oil your manservant, practise your Convenient Bouts of Unconsciousness and use your anachronistic Wonderbra to hoist your bosoms up around your ears, because...
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