14 Saturday Jul 2007
I’ve got the seventh book on pre-order from Amazon and I’m quite looking forward to that. But so far the fifth film isn’t being shown here in original version, though I’m hoping it may be soon as all the previous ones have been. The most popular cinema in Sevilla actually has the film showing in six of its twenty ‘salas’!
In the meantime, enjoy this splendid Comic Relief version of the second film . . .
Harry Potter and the Secret Chamber Pot of Azerbaijan
~ first seen at raincoaster’s ~
30 Saturday Jun 2007
Mamma Mia!
~ found over at Mudpuddle ~
22 Friday Jun 2007
24 Thursday May 2007
Posted in miscellany, video
I thought this was really cool. Did you spot the trick?
(best to watch the video before reading the comments)
First seen on Aphra Behn’s blog.
26 Thursday Apr 2007
Posted in books & writing, health & happiness, media, rants, video, weird
Oprah lives by it. Millions are reading it. The latest self-help sensation claims we can change our lives by thinking. But this ‘new thought’ may just be new marketing.
Reading some of the excerpts in the Newsweek article, you’d almost think it was a spoof book if not for the millions of copies sold and the public support of celebs like Oprah, Ellen DeGeneres and Nicole Kidman. Are people really so desperately needy and pathetically gullible? The mind reels …
You’d think the last thing Americans need is more excuses for self-absorption and acquisitiveness. But our inexhaustible appetite for “affirmation” and “inspiration” and “motivation” has finally outstripped the combined efforts of Wayne Dyer, Anthony Robbins, Dr. Phil and Mitch Albom. We have actually begun importing self-help—and from Australia, of all places, that citadel of tough-minded individualism…
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