As I was looking for information on Spike Lee’s new movie, She Hate Me (the wonderful Chiwetel Ejiofor, who played Okwe in Dirty Pretty Things has a role) I was unfortunate enough to read the imdb review. I have a love/hate relationships with the imdb reviews. They’re like car crashes – awful, but you can’t [...]

Terror hit the formal gardens of the ex-residence of the ex-captain of industry, ex-founder of Kodak and general ex-eccentric, George Eastman this afternoon. Terrorist spores, which it is suspected had been launched from Northern Korea and lain dormant for several weeks, grew at a blistering pace into lumbering tentacled carnivo-plants. Hundreds of them hurled themselves [...]

The pictures of the Hopf family Independence Day turkey-fry are now online. I’ve given them their own gallery in the photos section. Click here to have a look at the scariest method of cooking a large bird I’ve ever seen.
Before we cooked the bird I convinced Courtney’s sister Maggie that the turkey wasn’t fully defrosted [...]

…and very compelling. Nagl, over at Falling Sky points the way to some fantastic Polish movie posters. From the look of this one for David Cronenberg’s the Fly, the artist who created it saw the same things in the film as I did. There’s a really sexy one for Dirty Dancing too, sexier than the [...]

I decided the old design of the weblog was starting to creak a bit – it was nearly two years old, dang it! So I tinkered a bit today. I hope it all works well and looks good. If you spot any problems, let me know.
The comments will now be handled nice and elegantly by [...]

Just a quick post to keep things bubbling while I work on the turkey frying pictures. Another Park Ave shot, the house across the road has dollar bills glued to the pavement (sidewalk) out front. I’ve not seen a single person fooled in six months.

The official period of mourning is now over, but everything was still at half-mast on Friday when Courtney and I visited the Port of Rochester Ferry Terminal. Everything that looks like a flag, at least. While checking the place out we caught sight of this:

I can just about understand a large number of Americans wanting [...]

…that people do to celebrate American Independence Day, this deserves some kind of prize. Courtney’s parents have decided to investigate the worrying trend that is sweeping the States: the deep-fried turkey. I am terrified at the prospect. What next? Deep-fried cow?
What’s wrong with a nice bit of battered haddock?
Worst thing is, if the turkey isn’t [...]

During my last visit back to the Shire, Dom noted that I had changed from being plain-and-simple “Liam” to “Porky Liam.” Much as I like the idea of this as my superhero alter-ego, I don’t fancy it as my normal human state.
There are plenty of things to blame my spare tyre on: American sized portions [...]