The comic reviewing comics virgin Comicon intern (try saying that ten times fast) reviews Wolverine #1. Some readers are suggesting she doesn’t really exist (and therefore that she should go away and stop pointing out the weaknesses in their favourite comics.) But I want to believe.
Wolverine having metal claws that come out of his hands? That I can deal with. Wolverine climbing stairs with a knife through his leg? I don’t climb stairs with a pebble in my shoe.
I’ve just been given a small squidgy ball with the company logo as a stress toy. The label reads
“This is not a toy! Not suitable for children Due to small parts/Sharp edges”.
As it is a foam sphere about the size of an orange, I’m a bit baffled where it’s sharp edges or small parts are.
Anatomically correct Hulk!
There really is nothing else to say.
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English Nature is pushing the idea of planting mini meadows on rooftops. It’s a win-win plan, soaking up pollutants, insulating the buildings and encouraging diversity in the oddest places.
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Can you imagine what I’d come up with for the news that Stonehenge is actually a giant prehistoric vagina?
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Or at least it soon will be, now that the world’s largest portable inkjet printer has been designed, developed and armed with a can of spray paint by two Swiss students.
How long before rich, budding young graffiti artists desperate to get their tags noticed start using this method to attract attention?
George Monbiot has another strong point about our master and poodle relationship with the US. Bush et al are doing bad things to our sovereignty. The sort of things that would have the right wing press foaming at the mouth if it looked like Europe was considering them.
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Animal rights activists staged a naked protest at the Pamplona bull run. Now, if the young ladies of Manchester would just stage a nude sit-in of my bedroom we could solve so many of the world’s problems.
Meanwhile, the protesters blocking Le Tour are probably part of a countrywide performing artists’ strike. Only in France would people go on strike for the right to culture.
Elsewhere in Europe, an Italian minister responsible for tourism has done a Howells and insulted German tourists, this as things were settling down after the concentration camp comments.
Buddy Ebsen died on Sunday morning. His best known film role was as Audrey Hepburn’s husband in Breakfast at Tiffany’s. If he hadn’t been allergic to the aluminium makeup used he would have been The Scarecrow in The Wizard of Oz but he had to drop out after 10 days of shooting. However most will remember him as Jed Clampett from The Beverley Hillbillies.
Today’s stage of the Tour was disrupted by striking actors tryiong to block the road. Links when I find some.
After the tykes guest editing G2 yesterday, today it’s the over 60s editing GuardianUnlimited.