Showing posts with label Theme parks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Theme parks. Show all posts
Monday, 17 August 2026

I Demand these Fifity-Four Seconds of Grange Hill be Watched, then Universally Celebrated.

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 My strongest memory by far of the time Grange Hill went to Chessington Zoo is of Annette Firman negging a posh, ginger kid from between th...
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Tuesday, 4 February 2025

Unposted on Election Night: Spoilers for Vengeance

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 Okay, a little more about what's happening in US...   B.J. Novak's superb comedy "Vengeance" – released in 2022, but on...
Tuesday, 13 September 2022

Not A Good Look

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 Another big scary face. Gemma Brockis sent me this: it's Mussolini's Italian Fascist Party headquarters in 1934. There's a lot ...
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Monday, 12 September 2022

The Ride and Room

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   One old friend I was uncharacteristically proactive enough to actually arrange a reunion with before the wedding on Saturday was shunt...
Saturday, 30 January 2021

To all who come to this happy Round: welcome!

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 They are the best of places. They are the worst of places. They are the realistion of dreams. They are the stuff of nightmares. They are re...
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Sunday, 12 January 2020

Benchless in Baatu (Jenny Nicholson does some digging)

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  "What Walt would later describe as the best weekend of his life..."  Here's animator Ward Kimball and his boss larki...
Saturday, 4 January 2020

Toto, I've a feeling we're not in... Oh we are?

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Thanks to this pinterest account .  Continuing my celebration of youtube essayists completely obsessed with theme parks , here's ...
Wednesday, 24 April 2019

"At just a little under a dollar a word, becoming fluent in Na'vi is a very expensive investment."

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Re: the implausibility of humankind ever actually visiting another inhabited plane... Avatar! Commenting on the previous post, @tealin w...
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Wednesday, 17 December 2014

"Santa, we found someone even creepier than you."

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BOO! It's the annual running of the Krampuses.  If the Christmas Doctor Who doesn't have a Krampus, it's missed a trick. ...
Friday, 5 December 2014

This Is Why Gerald Should Be Supervised

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Here's something else I never got round to plugging: A one-take wonder from Johnny Burns and Pier van Tijn, and my first experienc...

"Putting Gaston in his Place": Attitudes towards Animism, Predeterminism and Liminality in that youtube video

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 Here's a very charming video of a theme park actor enjoying four minutes of actual acting. I know, from working in the London Dungeon, ...