Prince Philip worshipped as god in Vanuatu.
I'm feeling like a bit of a grinch for only giving 'Blink' 8/10 over on
diggerdydum; clearly it was excellent, it just wasn't quite at the same exalted heights as Moffat's last three episodes, or the last two episodes of this series (like which, it was adapted from a previous prose Who piece of the author's, albeit this time one which will have been read by tinies as well as geeks). I love it when Who actually does time travel stories. And the science here may have been nonsense, but it was nonsense in that 'sounds *almost* right' sense, and that (unlike all the DNA bobbins earlier) is fine by me. A lot of people seem not to have been too keen on the ending, missing the point that it wasn't really anything to do with the plot - it was just about giving children nightmares. And really, what higher endeavour is there?
Black.Plastic = top fun. And how refreshing to hear so much music I like being played in the Pleasure Unit without actually having to worry. I think the pop/electro/goth/indie mix they've hit on really does sound like it works together, which is always the tough bit for any night operating outside the usual genre alliances.
(Weird taking the 254 through Stamford Hill for the first time since reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union, finding myself thinking 'black hatters' and generally in Yiddish about the ultra-Orthodoxes thronging the streets)
"A public service TV channel launched by President Hugo Chávez...Televisora Venezolana Social, (TVes), has a mandate to wean Venezuelans off western-style capitalist consumerism with programmes that promote the government's leftwing agenda. But since its launch on May 28 the channel has shown American films, dubbed into Spanish, which have not been screened since Richard Nixon occupied the White House. It has also aired French cartoons, Brazilian puppet shows, Argentinian soaps and Soviet films. A Miami-based production company, Wide Angle Productions, has said that several of its shows were screened without permission or payment. Venezuelan filmmakers said they were being asked to supply content at bargain prices.
Thursday's programming included European cartoons, an exercise show fronted by a blonde kickboxer, government adverts promoting education, a three-hour speech by the president and Bambi's Youth, a 1986 USSR allegory in which humans play the role of deers."
Reminder: history walk starting at the Dairy at 2, Stokefest in Clissold Park later. Non-Local types are excused non-attendance. Though not being Local in the first place will still need a good defence.
I'm feeling like a bit of a grinch for only giving 'Blink' 8/10 over on
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Black.Plastic = top fun. And how refreshing to hear so much music I like being played in the Pleasure Unit without actually having to worry. I think the pop/electro/goth/indie mix they've hit on really does sound like it works together, which is always the tough bit for any night operating outside the usual genre alliances.
(Weird taking the 254 through Stamford Hill for the first time since reading The Yiddish Policemen's Union, finding myself thinking 'black hatters' and generally in Yiddish about the ultra-Orthodoxes thronging the streets)
"A public service TV channel launched by President Hugo Chávez...Televisora Venezolana Social, (TVes), has a mandate to wean Venezuelans off western-style capitalist consumerism with programmes that promote the government's leftwing agenda. But since its launch on May 28 the channel has shown American films, dubbed into Spanish, which have not been screened since Richard Nixon occupied the White House. It has also aired French cartoons, Brazilian puppet shows, Argentinian soaps and Soviet films. A Miami-based production company, Wide Angle Productions, has said that several of its shows were screened without permission or payment. Venezuelan filmmakers said they were being asked to supply content at bargain prices.
Thursday's programming included European cartoons, an exercise show fronted by a blonde kickboxer, government adverts promoting education, a three-hour speech by the president and Bambi's Youth, a 1986 USSR allegory in which humans play the role of deers."
Reminder: history walk starting at the Dairy at 2, Stokefest in Clissold Park later. Non-Local types are excused non-attendance. Though not being Local in the first place will still need a good defence.