• The Charles Schultzification of Doctor Who

    The Charles Schultzification of Doctor Who

    Pretty much a no-brainer that Amy Pond would be the Little Red Haired Girl and Matt Smith would be Linus, but must Rory be Charlie Brown? Thanks to artist Larry Wentzel, for the mash-up that imagines Doctor Who characters as if they were inside the mind of the great Peanuts creator, Charles Schultz. Wentzel described […]

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  • MAVS Win! NBA Champs 2011!

    MAVS Win! NBA Champs 2011!

    Given that we’ve been waiting for this for a mere 31 years, you’ll have to bear with me on today’s post. Was a bit of a late Sunday as the Dallas Mavericks won the NBA Finals led by series MVP, Dirk Nowitski and the JET, Jason Terry. Since this was the Mavs first ever NBA […]

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  • Germany officially the least funniest country in the world!

    Germany officially the least funniest country in the world!

    With sincere apologies to the supreme German, Dirk Nowitski, I get Germany being crowned the least funniest country in the world in a recent international survey conducted by Badoo.com. But….how in the world can Britain be listed as the #4 least funny? Never mind the fact that Britain finished more boring than America, how about […]

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  • A real-life Doc Martin, w/out the curmudgeon part

    A real-life Doc Martin, w/out the curmudgeon part

    Despite the fact that Dr. Lawrence Barnes is not afraid of blood, he doesn’t kick stray dogs and is not even close to being as curmudgeonly as Dr. Martin Ellingham, a.k.a. Doc Martin, “Doc Barnes” is leading a seemingly familiar mid-20th century doctor’s life to his fictional counterpart. Working surgeries between the two fishing villages […]

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  • The Man Who Invented the Daleks – Terry Nation

    The Man Who Invented the Daleks – Terry Nation

    Maybe you are searching for a little three-day weekend reading as opposed to yesterdays suggestions of some classic British comedy marathon viewing? If so, the book for you has just released this week in the UK. So you can make plans now for a little Labor Day weekend reading, a September 1 release in the […]

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  • Doctor Who v. Harris Tweed….the horror of it all

    Doctor Who v. Harris Tweed….the horror of it all

    Who would have ever bet money that, in the 21st century, there would be an uproar involving the classic 60’s Harris Tweed manufacturer and the longest running science fiction series either side of the pond. If you didn’t, you should have. We all remember the recent resurgence of Harris Tweed when, back in 2009, the […]

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  • Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Osama bin Laden and the power of Twitter

    Graham Linehan, The IT Crowd, Osama bin Laden and the power of Twitter

    If you’re the one or two folks that haven’t heard this story, read on. The rest of you just have to decide which is faster….the power to spread a hoax through vague tweets on Twitter or the realization of the hoax through traditional 21st century online media. At this point, given this first person account […]

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  • Vote! It's BAFTA time. Sherlock, Downton Abbey and more…

    Vote! It's BAFTA time. Sherlock, Downton Abbey and more…

    Doesn’t get any better than having a night to celebrate and pay tribute to the best television on television. It’s time again for the BAFTA’s, the British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards, Sunday, 22 May. This year is does nothing to disprove this theory in that you have several legitimate winners in virtually […]

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  • Images of Spielberg's Tintin beginning to surface

    Images of Spielberg's Tintin beginning to surface

    Currently in post-production and set for a December 2011 release, The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn, is based on the classic Belgian comic strips by Georges Remi. It will be the first Steven Spielberg-directed feature film since Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull in 2008. Spielberg’s name not enough to […]

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  • The Hoff as Lovejoy?

    The Hoff as Lovejoy?

    From the Department of Say it Isn’t So… There are some things that must be stopped at all costs. This heads the list. Never mind topping the charts with two #1 hits on the German pop charts. Forget the major role in the SpongeBob SquarePants movie or his 2000 Broadway debut in the title role […]

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