Category Archives: arts

who’s he think he is, DC?

Posted on Sunday, 2005 November 20 by Anton

Steve Troop has restarted his comicstrip Melonpool from scratch and, very unusually, took down eight years of archived strips (though you can still buy them as books). The event is much discussed at Websnark. Besides being weighed down by the … Continue reading →

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it’s Bollywood Week

Posted on Sunday, 2005 November 13 by Anton

Netflix’s list of new releases this week has five Israëli titles, ten Chinese and 55 Indian – not counting 23 collections of songs from Indian film.

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know your weapons

Posted on Tuesday, 2005 November 08 by Anton

A dreadful blunder in Granada Television’s version (1985) of “The Greek Interpreter”: in a non-canonical scene, Mycroft Holmes refers to a derringer as a “revolver”. Tsk!

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the title of this post, containing a joke that I’ve made before

Posted on Friday, 2005 October 28 by Anton

If you haven’t already, go here and listen to “Title of the Song” (MP3), a spoof on the “boy band” genre.

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BrowncoatBlogging

Posted on Monday, 2005 October 24 by Anton

Unqualified Offerings cites numerous comments on Serenity, which I’ll read later.

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Salivili hipput tupput täppyt äppyt tipput hilijalleen

Posted on Monday, 2005 October 24 by Anton

An unexpected effect of listening to music through my computer’s speakers is a better stereo image than I’m used to. That’s how I noticed for the first time that Loituma’s joyously goofy song Ievan polkka has four vocal parts, not … Continue reading →