Heres some really wicked pictures of Russian Buildings that were designed but never built. Some of them look like what I imagine The Lost City Of Atlantis would look like. If it were true. It’s not. Cool if it was. I’ll go now.
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The Family Guy is a great cartoon, but SHIT you’ve got to check out this blog, in paticular the post “Mamas, don’t let yer babies grow up to be cartoonists”, in which ‘Spike’ reveals the flipside of what for may people appears to be a dream job. Hey Spike – welcome to the world mate! 9 to 5 ain’t easy – at our work, the coffee machine has been broken for, like, months!

Mackie Research

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I love to take photos, but I’m pretty crap at it (as you can see on the right there). Here’s some fantastic ones taken by Stanley Kubrick before he was a film director, which I’ve nicked from boingboing. I like them ‘cos they look like stills from his films, even though they’re not.

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Am I allowed to quote Sir Alex Fergusson after Liverpool have won the Big Cup? Yes, I think I can.

“Football… bloody hell”.

I think that sums it up nicely.
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Right, so here’s the only fashion-related post I’ll probably ever do. And it’s a fairly simple question.

How come, right, that men are supposed to be all Metrosexual and Beckham ourselves for hours before going to WORK let alone leaving the house on a Saturday night? Intricate haircut, IRONED shirts, moisturiser, hair product, washboard abs, face scrub, under eye balm, JPG Men, etc, etc, etc. Jesus Feckin Christ.

And yet, the hottest fashion items for women right now are tracksuits and ugg boots.

*Best Seinfeld Voice* What’s up with THAT?

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So we were sat in Malt on Sunday night having a quiet pint. Or six. About 9 o’clock a whole bunch of theatrical types (talking VERY LOUDLY) busted in at once and started drinking. Next thing a (very drunk) man and woman came and sat right down at our table and said “How did you guys go?”.

Turns out these guys had just wrapped up working on the 48 Hours film making competition.

“Ah, we’re just here for a drink, we didn’t do the competition”.

“Oh, you’re normos”.

Normos?

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Bugger John Campbell, I want The Simpsons back on every night. I’m very sad (I know, I know), but I can just watch them over and over and over, and my favorite bits are always where Homer is being smacked in the head repeatedly. There’s acres written about the genius of The Simpsons, but here’s a couple of points you may not know. Writer George Mayer is often credited as the number one Simpsons writer – and he was hired on the strength of his fanzine “Army Man”, tagline: “America’s Only Magazine”.

You can read some of the material here. It’s odd, bizarre, and weird – and very un American. These short and sharp bits of weirdness strike me as the kind of stupid humor more likely to be found in, say, the ‘Top Tips’ page of Viz, and just goes to show the genius at work behind The Simpsons. And a big Homeresque ‘in yer face’ to those who say Americans can’t do teh funny. Here’s a taste:

A “LAKELY” STORY
My friend from Michigan says if you pushed all the Great Lakes together they’d be as big as the Mediterranean. I say, why bother?

SILVER LINING
Eighteen months ago, doctors at Mercy Hospital told Manny Hofstedter he would never walk again. Sadly, they were right. Hofstedter is still in a wheelchair. The good news is that his three doctors will receive the prestigious Lundberg Prize for Diagnostic Excellence.

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You’ll like it if : You’re a fan of recent Brit TV comedy. Spaced’s Simon Pegg is Shaun, the 30ish slacker who, in a moment of inspiration, decides the pub is the best place to wait out a Zombie attack. His gaggle of mates includes Dawn from the Office, and Bernard from Black Books, plus Ed, who along with Ricky from Made must be one of the all time annoying assholes ever created for the screen. I quite like annoying assholes.

The best bit was : when Shaun and the crew run into another band of Zombie hunters – and there’s Tim from The Office! Tamsin from Black Books! George Dawes! Your man from The League Of Gentlemen! I just about shat I was so happy.

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My mate Aidan came home for Xmas this year, and told me about a film he’d seen on the plane, Napoleon Dynamite. Aidan has crap taste in movies, so I ignored it, but I eventually got it out and watched it. You should too, I laughed like I hadn’t since I saw Wayne’s World for the first time.

“Why are you drinking 1% milk? Is it because you’re worried you’re fat?”

Hah hah. Hah hah hah hah. Sweet.

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I sometimes photoshop footballers and submit them to the Guardian’s Football Unlimited website.

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I haven’t won anything yet though.