Here’s an interesting news item I stumbled across while wasting time being productive at work.
Apparently 6 girls from a rural Tennessee school have been charged with compiling a death list - a list which not only names staff and other students at the school, but which also apparently names celebrity figures such as Tom Cruise [...]
Archive for January, 2007
Kudos to Voodoo Logic’s only semi-famous associate [1], The Creature From 40,000 Fathoms, for getting his name mentioned on the ABC’s Arts and Entertainment blog, Articulate.
Sure, it’s for sending in a picture of a tombstone from Tombstone, but we’re pretty damned impressed, all the same.
So - well done, that Creature!
Footnotes:
1.
Or, at least, the only [...]
Here at Voodoo Logic we’re not just all about the sticking of pins into dolls that look a lot like John Howard [1]. As much fun as that can be, we’re also about celebrating the diverse, the strange, the bizarre, the weird, and the downright unexpected [2].
More than anything, we’re interested in interesting things, and [...]
I was up late one night last week, desperately wishing I could go to sleep and flipping randomly back and forth between television channels.
I was trying to find something - anything - that would distract me from the fact that I was going to have to go to work in a few hours and would [...]
Twenty20 - Bastardization of Cricket or Just Good Entertainment?
Published by January 9th, 2007 in Pins and Needles. 1 CommentA mate of mine lives in the Emerald City (Sydney).
His name is Aussie Dingo Dave and he originally hails from Wimbledon [1] in the UK but has recently had the ’surgery’ which resulted in him having Aussie citizenship bestowed upon him along with two potted blue gum trees thrust into his hands (as [...]
Things I learned from watching Columbo…
Published by January 8th, 2007 in Pins and Needles. 5 CommentsHere’s a life-lesson I picked up recently while watching 97 solid hours of Columbo [1]:
Never - I repeat, never - blackmail a murderer.
Footnotes:
1.
As a direct result of having recently purchased Season 3 of the series on DVD
Return
This post is part of a conversation
The phrase that the Grape really hates at the moment is the American saying “Back in the day” ….what the hell are they talking about? What day? Man!
This got me thinking about a phrase that I’ve come to hate: “I could care less”…
I mean, what it communicates is, “I [...]
Update: Very short description goes here
Published by January 2nd, 2007 in Pins and Needles. 0 CommentsThis post is part of a conversation
I don’t know - maybe I’m odd for finding this so amusing, but just in case anyone else is interested, here’s a scan of the entry for Nip/Tuck.
Funny, right?
…Hello?
This post is part of a conversation
First post of the new year (happy 2007!) and I’d like to send out a quick congratulations to whoever it is that writes the summaries for the movies and television shows in the TV Guide put out each week by Brisbane’s Sunday Mail.
In particular, the entry for this week’s [...]
Sound Of Voodoo