Month: October 2017

  • The Day After
    The Day After

    No regrets. It was a good mantra to live by, even if it was impossible. Perhaps a better expression of the sentiment would be ‘don’t dwell too much on those regrets’. As whoopsies go however, this one was a doozy. A real humdinger. It if was a hangover, it would be one that could actually…

  • The Day The President Fell
    The Day The President Fell

    It started like most days that year. Horrifically. But as the day unfolded, and revelation followed bombshell, it felt like the sun had come out from a year long hibernation, spreading its heat and glow, and thawing everyone’s cockles just enough to feel a warmth in the world again. No-one really knew why they had…

  • Fall Back
    Fall Back

    Having an extra hour in the day really appealed to Larry. He always seemed so pressed for time these days, and things were getting forgotten. The house needed a lick of paint, some of the pipes were rumbling, the dog needed to be fed, and it was all getting overlooked. Come to think of it,…

  • Fictional Board Games In Movies And TV Shows
    Fictional Board Games In Movies And TV Shows

    While there are a few movies based on board games, there aren’t nearly enough fictional board games in movies or in TV shows. The first one that springs to mind is this. Although, I’m amazed the first one I didn’t think of was this: Or the wizarding version. And there’s at least two sitcoms that…

  • What’s The Opposite Of A Woodpecker?
    What’s The Opposite Of A Woodpecker?

    Time for another episode of setisoppO, the podcast where we work out the opposite of things that don’t have a natural opposite. This week, we discuss the topics of woodpeckers, dominoes, and trunks. http://traffic.libsyn.com/sundayssupplement/setisoppo059.mp3   We also learned something about last week’s episode, where we got hung up on an image we couldn’t identify. And…

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  • Proctology: A Bottom Examination
    Proctology: A Bottom Examination

    For a long time now I’ve been wanting to write an old-fashioned programme guide. One you can hold in your hand and thumb through, make notes on, spill coffee on. So I did. Proctology: A Bottom Examination is my deep dive into Bottom, the hit BBC Two sitcom starring Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson. That’s…

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  • Re-Casting Keanu
    Re-Casting Keanu

    Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him eight years older than Clive Dunn was when he was first cast in Dad’s Army. But don’t panic, Clive Dunn was always playing much older characters than his own age. Keanu Reeves is 56. That makes him seven years older than Stephanie Cole was when she was first…

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