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Weird News Weekly: 28th June 2009
While you may know Joe Shuster as the illustrator of Superman, you may not know his alter ego as an illustrator of fetish art. A long lost book of his secret illustrations has come to light. READ MORE [caption id="attachment_207" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="The secret's out: Joe Read more
Weird news weekly: Sunday 21st June 2009
The cute vampire from twilight, Robert Pattinson, has been hit by a cab in New York while trying to escape fans. Don’t worry, he wasn’t hurt. He’s a vampire, remember? (And to answer the question why he could survive in sunlight – Ray Bans) Read More [caption id="" align="alignright" Read more
Earth Speaks
The SETI institute* has just launched a new program called ‘Earth Speaks’. It poses the question ‘If we discover intelligent life beyond Earth, should we reply, and if so, what should we say?’ Check out their website here. [caption id="" align="alignright" width="425" caption=" Alien Read more
Weird News Weekly: 5th June 2009
Some day my fresh prince of bel air will come… Disney’s latest princess movie features a ‘black’ princess, who spends most of the movie as a frog. READ MORE Who ya gonna call? Ghostbusters: the video game. READ MORE An Egyptian man cuts off his penis to protest against his parents Read more
Angels and Demons
Having planned to see State of Play on the weekend, I was surprised when I ended up in a cinema face to face with vatican conspiracy instead and wondering how I got talked into seeing it. Angels and Demons, the film of the bestselling Dan Brown book, is the predecessor to The Da Vinci Code (but Read more
Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game
My first ever video game review. Being the total girl that I am, I picked an appropriate title. No, it’s not Resident Evil. It’s Grey’s Anatomy: The Video Game. Now for those of you who’ve tuned out at the mention of the sappiest, surgical show on TV, you’re probably not going to play Read more
Weird News Weekly: 25th May 2009
Kevin Costner eat your heart out. Astronauts have turned urine into water. Yum. READ MORE The WOW pod, complete with viking horns and toilet. READ MORE Can robots ever be like humans? Of course, haven’t you seen Bicentennial Man… They’re annoying and played by Robin Williams. READ Read more
Wolverine vs. The Mindscape of Alan Moore
I just got back from watching the new Wolverine movie. I was going to review it, but I realised that there’s really not much point. You’ll either see it or you won’t, and your life will be neither better or worse either way. There are explosions, Liev Schreiber is quite good as Read more
Weird News Weekly: 10th May 2009
New tourist destination: Riverside, Iowa. Visit the future birthplace of Captain James T. Kirk. READ MORE The best weird news ever. Superheroes are real and fighting crime. READ MORE Just as good. We are one step closer to invisibility cloaks. READ MORE The age of robot soldiers is upon us! Come Read more
Pride and Prejudice and Zombies
‘It is a truth universally accepted that a zombie in possession of brains, must be in want of more brains.’ So begins the immoral, the blasphemous, and enormously entertaining Pride and Prejudice and Zombies, by Seth Graheme-Smith (and of course, Jane Austen). If the original story wasn’t Read more
