Some bits and pieces which I would have added as Asides if that feature actually worked properly… K2 development seems to have stalled somewhat recently. I’d love to make my own theme, but in the same vein I would also like to play at Wembley Stadium, ban baseball caps (unless worn as part of a full baseball outfit), force McDonalds to sell McMuffins at all times of day, as opposed to just the times when I can’t get to a McDonalds (a delivery service would be nice, but probably fatal), and I’d quite like to live on the moon – at least for a short while, to see whether I like it.
All are worthy causes, but none are particularly likely to come to fruition any time soon.
I’ve been enjoying Kevin Smith’s video diary on the production of Clerks 2, which I’m looking forward to enormously. Whilst I still stand by the sentiment (at least in a way), I no longer actually stand quite as literally by my utterance after watching The Return Of The King of “I don’t think I’m ever going to need to go to a cinema again”. Yes, it was the culmination of one of the greatest sagas the world has known, and even made the horror of the Star Wars prequel trilogy (almost) bearable, but there will be other films – in fact, there have already been other films. It just seems as if the ones worth watching are fewer and more far between than ever before. In other movie news, Simon Pegg will apparently play Tom Cruise’s sidekick in Mission Impossible 3. And however many times I repeat that, it’s never going to sound right…
Paul Ford, alleged blogger and ocassional purveyor of linguistic delights at ftrain.com, has remembered how to write. A disarming couple of posts in the past week have been followed by the frankly apocalyptic sight of three in two days. He’s also written a novel: Gary Benchley, Rock Star. Which I suppose excuses his blog inactivity of late. My own excuses are rather less grandiose, having merely been: celebrating the onset of the awkward shift between being in one’s mid-twenties and being in one’s late-twenties, watching England qualify for the 2006 World Cup, proving conclusively that any song containing the phrase “la la la” (or derivatives) is automatically wonderful, realising that Red Dwarf is no longer funny, not caring about the new video iPod, buying children’s books, failing to convince the pizza delivery man to join the karaoke party and most recently reciting entire Monty Python movies (or at least it seemed like it) with a little help from my friends.
Who says geeks don’t know how to have fun?