February 2011
21 posts
2011 Shaping Up As a Bad Bad Year 4 Movies →
Thanks to the 2011 preview edition of Empire magazine, here is a list of the movies I will be seriously avoiding this year. The usual rules apply, No Sequels, Remakes, Comic Books and adaptations of…
Let's tell James Franco to "Shut up"
Today it was reported that James Franco said he won’t be doing any lines at the Oscars a la Ricky Gervais at the Golden Globes because in his opinion, Gervais “bombed” in front of all the luvvies and the Hollywood Foreign Press.
Can we all agree that Mr Franco needs to stop talking and just try not to look prettier than Ms Hathaway at the Oscar ceremony on Sunday? It is all he...
“This is the Renault Espace, probably the best of the people carriers. Not that...”
– Jeremy Clarkson on “Top Gear”
“The Edge… there is no honest way to explain it because the only people who...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“If Shaw and Einstein couldn’t beat death, what chance have I got?...”
– Mel Brooks
“There is no necessity to separate the monarch from the mob; all authority is...”
– Oscar Wilde
“This boy is Ignorance. This girl is Want. Beware them both, and all of their...”
– Charles Dickens
Stories that make you go "Huh?" →
Every so often, you come across a story on the Interwebs that make you come up short and do one of those Lewis Black style double takes. This week such a story was the one that said people in the…
“Good wine needs no bush.”
– William Shakespeare
“A woman should never be seen eating or drinking, unless it be lobster salad and...”
– Lord Byron
“Forget about the men in your past… they didn’t make it to your future for a...”
– Anonymous
“The issue which has swept down the centuries and which will have to be fought...”
– Lord Acton
“If I look confused it is because I am thinking.”
– Samuel Goldwyn
“I never made a mistake in grammar but one in my life and as soon as I done it I...”
– Carl Sandburg
“Nine times out of ten, in the arts as in life, there is actually no truth to be...”
– H.L.Mencken
Now it has happened twice! →
Twice in my life I have had feelings, I don’t want to call them “religious” or to use the weasel word “spiritual” to describe them, but these occasions definitely felt like my life was…
“All politicians should have 3 hats - one to throw into the ring, one to talk...”
– Carl Sandburg
“If you can’t be funny, be interesting.”
– Harold Ross.
“Money cannot buy health, but I’d settle for a diamond-studded wheelchair.”
– Dorothy Parker
“Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and...”
– Robert Benchley