Ken Krueger Dies!

Thank you for all that you did!

The Muppets: Bohemian Rhapsody

It's been far too long since the Muppets graced this blog....

Close Encounters Of The Redneck Kind

Yeeeeeee - Haaaaa!!

Close Encounters of the Redneck Kind from Marc Bullard on Vimeo.

RIP Edward Woodward

Just got home from work to hear the news.

I'm gutted!

The Golden Age Of Video - Ricardo Autobahn

If George Lucas Restored Star Wars

Via Cynical C

What To Watch On Halloween

If you're sitting alone tonight in a big, dark house with no-one but the cat for company then at least you can sit back and enjoy a few old classic movies.

At this link you can watch 10 public domain horror movies all Youtube embedded for your watching convenience just perfect for tonight - or any night.

Nosferatu is of course worth watching but if you really want to be weirded out then try Dr Calgari.

Sweet dreams.......Mwah ha ha ha....

Happy Halloween

Hey There Cthulhu

Praise be to the Old Ones....

Pac Man On Twitter

Food Fight

Boo!

Tis the element of surprise.

Paws!

Bring Me More BACON!!!!!!!!!

It's Hal - 'The Misinterprative Pornstar'......is that even a word?

Sodor Is Safe Once More

Let's Get This Thing Back On The Road

I've made good use of this in my new job and, after a month I can finally see my desk and everything's up to date! Phew!

I now have time to blog again.....YAY!!

Cheeky!

'Watchwomen' aka 'When superheroes go burlesque'!

Something For The Weekend

Going to be busy doing research for a few days. Should be back here on Tuesday for more of the same.
In the meantime just relax with this utterly pointless but addictive page 'Sharkbreak'. (Click the pic for the link)

Light Up

Robogeisha!!!

Possibly the most awesome thing I have ever seen!!!!

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Weird Headline Of The Day

Midget wrestlers drugged to death by female robbers.

Pen And Ink Illustrations by Shohei Otomo

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There are far more at Shohei Otomos website (NSFW)

More expense drama..or should that be 'treuliau'?

I don't usually put my long-winded rants on this blog - but I want to put this one here for a reason - cos I want lots of people to see it. Promise I won't do it again (well - not for a while...lol) and we'll be back to the usual deviance forthwith.


Yet more scandal on the expenses front - but his time it's not Westminster that I'm talking about. This is far closer to me than that.

The Senedd (Welsh Assembly to you lot..lol) has released it's members expenses for the 08/09 year. It makes horrendous reading.

There are no claims for duck houses or damp-proofing and tbh the 'everyday' expenses of most of the AMs (Assembly Members) is pretty fair. I don't object to the travelling expenses, or really to the TVs and ipods bought out of my taxes....oh no...

What I have a real problem with is the 'Second home allowance'..

Don't get me wrong here - I've travelled the length and breadth of Wales and if you live any further North than Brecon - then that's too far away from Cardiff (home of the Senedd) to make a comfortable drive home. The distance may not be far, but when they say 'A road' in Wales what they really mean is a single lane track that is usually occupied by tractors, sheep or roadworks!

But - I took an example of two AMs - one is my local repesentative and the other is the closest representative of the party I voted for. Both of them also happen to be on my Facebook friends list (convenient ain't it...lol).

I looked up their expenses online - they were released today on the Assembly website.

Huw Lewis (my local AM) claimed just over £23,000

Bethan Jenkins (my nearest Plaid Cymru AM) claimed just over £31,000

Both of them claim a second home allowance - Huw Lewis has a mortgage, Bethan Jenkins rents...

Here's the rub - Huw Lewis lives less than half an hours drive from Cardiff (where he has his second home) and Bethan Jenkins lives less than an hours drive away....

You telling me they need a second home!!!??

I've popped down to Cardiff for a sandwich it's so close....

I asked both of these people why they think they need a second home....

Huw Lewis still hasn't replied, which has pissed me of a bit seeings that he's my local AM - MY representative..

But Bethan Jenkins has....she said - and this is the quote 'I don't think that this is unacceptable'....

Well I bloody do.

She said 'I rent my second property so I don't gain from it.'

Not exactly the point Bethan - it's MY taxes that pay that rent....and I can think of better things to spend it on.

Her messages to me about the issue were childish and condescending she even thought I wasn't aware enough of poitics to know that Huw Lewis and herself represent different parties....Her whole attitude was exactly the same as those 'we didn't break any rules' Westminster lot...

I lost patience and sent her quote to the BBC newsdesk....and an email to her boss.

I'm not surprised by any of this - they are politicians after all - but this is after their expenses were exposed last summer and an official inquiry set up to see if they were spending too much!

God help what they were skimming before.

The results of the inquiry will be released next week - should be interesting..

Anyhoo - rant over - going to hassle them a bit more on FB now...lol

Update: I have, since this post had quite an nice discussion with Bethan Jenkins who was happy to answer my questions. I can't say that she answered them all satisfactorily - but that's politics for ya!
My thanks to her for taking the time to debate the matter.

Guangzhou Steampunk

15 minutes of bliss.

Water Brain Complete Edition（16：9） from Johann.Poo on Vimeo.

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For My Sons....

For my eldest, and his girlfriend who are looking for a place of their own.
To my central, who is working hard and thinking about making his own way in the world.
To my youngest, who is finding the limelight of youth.

I love you all.

Be careful - and if you make a mistake - don't worry.....all of you were! And look how you turned out....lol.

Human Skull - Dali

Harrison Ford Missing?

With all the news of Michael Jackson - this has gone unnoticed

A friend of mine in France has just said 'it's been reported that Harrison Ford has gone missing off the coast of St Tropez...

If I hear any more - I'll let you know.

Latest news HERE

Latest - May be a hoax - hope it is....

UPDATE - Definately a hoax......
although here's a picture of what He might have looked like if he had to jump from a sinking ship.

Seems that nothing can keep Han/Indy down...lol


Feel free to look round the rest of the site while you're here..

Michael Jackson Dies

According to TMZ, AP Press and the LA Times Michael Jackson died today.

Was never a fan myself - but here's a tribute (embedding on all other vids was disabled - this was all I could get...lol)

True Love

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Xanadu

One of lifes guilty pleasures...

Sry - couldn't find any vid of Newton-John in the leapard skin shorts....

Cat Stevens - Lady D'Arbanville

Esao Andrews

Images by Esao Andrews fromthe Vertigo comic House Of Mystery

Star Trek TOS Intro

Panties

Samuel L Jackson ....is Wiz

Donny And Marie Osmond Do Star Wars

Pretty much had the same feeling as Cynical-C when I saw this on his page - publish!!! Publish!! PUBLISH!!!!!

So sit back and enjoy the awesomely cheesy spectacle of Donny and Marie as Luke and Leia - and to top it all off - Kris Kristofferson as Han Solo.....

Obama - The Superhero!!!

I lol'd

Time.....

May not have much time to blog this weekend - but never fear, I'm still here....

'Civilization' Elevator Video

This is a video installation by artist/director Marco Brambilla for the elevators in The Standard Hotel in New York City.

Comprised of over 400 video clips it takes passengers on a trip from hell to heaven on the way up and heaven to hell on the way down.

Civilization by Marco Brambilla from CRUSH on Vimeo.

Watch in full screen with the volume up to get the most out of it.

Via Boing Boing where there are links to more info.

Monks On Segways....

...with fire on their heads!

(via Arbroath)

Aren't You A Little Short For A Stormtrooper?

You've Already Lost!

When you click on the stories below you begin to wonder why the powers that be don't just give it up as a bad job!

Pirate Bay launches VPN service.

UK government to crack down on illegal file-sharing.

Pirate Bay and Anonymous assist Iran activists.

Taut

Lego Zombies

Shhh...Cthulhu Can Hear You

The Old Ones are listening....

Big Giant Robots!

In honour of the UK premier of Transformers 2 tonight - here's the trailer!
Can't wait to see it!

And I know this isn't strictly a Transformer - but here's a few awesome pics of the giant Gundam statue in Tokyo.

....and not forgetting the best Transformers fancy dress outfit evah!!!

Japanese Ad For Painkiller Gel - I Think...

Monsters!!!!

Awesome movie monster illustrations by Yasushi Torisawa

More here

Pictures By Daikichi Amano

Can't go wrong with tentacles.
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7 Great Muppet Sci-Fi Moments

What would the weekend be without a muppet link - courtesy of io9.

Click the io9 link for the rest of the magical muppet moments.

'Unko-san' - Lucky Poo anime

“Unko-san,” a new anime series about a brown poo-shaped fairy with lots of luck, is fast becoming the rage among high school girls in western Japan. Short episodes of the anime are now showing in the Osaka area on Kansai TV’s “Otoemon” music program.
The stories revolve around Unko-san — whose name is a play on the Japanese words for “luck” (un) and “crap” (unko) — and his quest for happiness on Lucky Island, which is populated by a host of other poo fairies.
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Inflatable Tower Could Climb Into Space

From New Scientist comes an article that tells us -
"A giant inflatable tower could carry people to the edge of space without the need for a rocket, and could be completed much sooner than a cable-based space elevator."

"To stay upright and withstand winds, full-scale structures would require gyroscopes and active stabilisation systems in each module. The team modelled a 15-kilometre tower made up of 100 modules, each one 150 metres tall and 230 metres in diameter, built from inflatable tubes 2 metres across. Quine estimates it would weigh about 800,000 tonnes when pressurised - around twice the weight of the world's largest supertanker.

"Twenty kilometres up is about as dark as outer space. You can see about 600 kilometres in any direction," Quine says. Tourists could get a view almost like that from space, but without the difficulties of coping with zero gravity. He calculates the tower could be extended up to low Earth orbit at 200 kilometres.

The tower does a similar job to the much-vaunted space elevator. But while the elevator envisages using ribbons woven from superstrong nanotubes - a material that is as yet non-existent - the tower would use materials that are already available. And should something go wrong with the tower, failure of a few modules would not cause the whole structure to collapse."

Yay!!! I'm gonna go into space on a bouncy castle!!!

Cute Animal Pics Of The Week

The Daily Telgraph has got 32 gorgeous animal pics including this one of a Siberian Tiger cub and it's mum at a zoo in Harbin, Heilongjiang Province, China.

I love the first one - the little fox's face as the lion chases him is priceless!

WANT!!!!!!

From Joanne Casey, who has indeed, Seen The Whole Of The Internet.

Anatomy of a Fairy Tale by Julia Murakami

A picture from one of my favourite - but now defunct - blogs - 'Hugo Strikes Back'.
Thankfully, he's back with a new blog full of the same kind of fantastic posts along with heaps of new stuff.

Live long and prosper at your new blog my friend.