I can officially declare that my post-Olympics slump is over. No more mooching about looking for sporting events on the TV, no more crying because Team GB hasn’t won a gold medal in the past five minutes. The 2012 Paralympics start today. I haven’t been this excited since, well since the Queen dropped into the Olympic Stadium…
Archives for August 2012
Calls for 50 Shades Book-Burning
24 August 2012 by Leave a Comment
A charity in the North of England which helps women who have been victims of abuse is calling for copies of the hugely popular Fifty Shades trilogy to be burned in protest at what is seen as the violent and degrading treatment of the female characters…
Top Ten: Bond Theme Songs
23 August 2012 by 2 Comments
One of my fondest movie memories from childhood is watching the early James Bond films with my dad. He’s a big fan of both the Ian Fleming books and especially the Sean Connery films and has a great story about leafleting for the SNP in Edinburgh with an up and coming young actor called Tam…
The Avengers 2 Gets A Release Date
16 August 2012 by Leave a Comment
After the news last week that Joss Whedon would be returning to write and direct The Avengers 2, Walt Disney Studios and Marvel have gone one step further and announced that the sequel to this year’s superhero behemoth would be released…
Top Ten: London 2012 Moments
13 August 2012 by Leave a Comment
Regular readers will have noticed that I’ve been a bit quiet lately, no posts for a couple of weeks and hardly any tweets at all. For a fortnight it seems like I fell off the edge of the world. Except of course I didn’t, I simply joined most of the UK in being utterly transfixed by the Olympics…