A geologist and archaeologist by training, a nerd by inclination - books, films, fossils, comics, rocks, games, folklore, and, generally, the rum and uncanny… Let’s have it!
Elsewhere:
Checks the naughty list… Oh boy.
Paul Nearly was a sad one as Warrior magazine was a real turning point for me in my appreciation of what Comics could do.
Not quite in the same league as those listed but my first comics editor died recently and that was a blow as he was a great guy and, with Dave Evans (who died in 2021), helped a lot of people get their first experience being published, including quite a few who have gone on to be pros.
I said “by and large”, there are exceptions. 🤔
Yes. I was scoffing at 3 which was running late.
At Christmas an ugly sweater is a unpleasant jumper, where, as has been mentioned, one of Andrew’s defences against accusations of noncery is that he was incapable of sweating because of the Falklands War.
You’re welcome.
And thanks to all you f.ukers who are, by and large, a decent lot who make the job much easier.
Very fine dogs too.
Plenty:
On Saturday, more than four months after the film’s release, the New York Times published an 80-page complaint filed in California that made a range of allegations against Baldoni – including sexual harassment on set and a co-ordinated PR campaign to damage Lively’s reputation afterwards.
At one point during production, the complaint alleges, things were so bad that a meeting was held to address the actress’s claims of a hostile work environment, which Reynolds also attended. One demand was that there be “no more showing nude videos or images of women to Lively, no more mention of Baldoni’s alleged previous ‘pornography addiction’, and no more discussions about sexual conquests in front of Lively”.
Other allegations made in the complaint include Baldoni and the film’s lead producer, Jamey Heath, repeatedly violating physical boundaries and making sexual or inappropriate comments to Lively; Baldoni improvising unwanted kissing during acting scenes; Heath showing Lively a video of his wife naked; and both men entering her trailer uninvited while she was in a state of undress.
Who are you calling a filthy animal! You are lucky I skipped my breakfast Stella today.
And that’s why he dumped your presents outside your house and porch pirates had them off.
Now I want to see a real one of these.
edit: all names for Santa across Europe. I think I’d prefer Iceland’s or Finland’s.
The deity gets to keep the original data, no harm in allowing copies.
They’re for life, not for Christmas. Whichever is longer.
Does that mean we can now phone a god? They probably won’t reply as they’ll be too busy shitposting on social media, but still…
If you own the first film just watch that again, they’re the same film.
Pedro looks like he’s wondering who has farted.
Disney’s home media releases of streaming shows are still doing well and these are just the steelbooks as far as I’m aware which have a much higher price than anything else.
I’d accept:
The only constant of those lists is that Wallace and Gromit isn’t third.