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Okay, so we all know that slavery is the only thing like slavery. Good.

Could someone tell Sepp Blatter - http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/football/teams/m/man_utd/7499028.stm

The only good thing to come out of the mess is the first half of today's Early Doors on Eurosport - http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/football/early-doors/article/13520/

Watched the 1st half of the BFI's 'Britain's Ultimate Film' thing which probably has the best idea for deciding this - it counted the number of tickets sold for each film in the cinema. Which means no bias towards post-1970 films. Apparently the British public bought a lot of tickets to see a seriously bizarre wide range of films.

Not that I don't have complaints, but mostly they were about the commentators. One, a hideously ironic, camp, New Yorker, said that the worst part of '101 Dalmations' was when Cruella got her comeuppance and that he really wanted her to get her fur coat. What a wanker, right?

Why did no one tell me that Nurse Racthed is Kai Winn?!! Now I shall be forever terrified. Although she's a lovely woman when interviewed.

Raymond Massey (who, along with Joesph Cotton, is the most underrated actor ever) has a wonderful speech about democracy in 'The 49th Parallel' - We own the right to be fed up with anything we damn please and say so out loud when we feel like it.

Which is why I get so annoyed when people say me speaking my anti-war views are helping destroy democracy, because I'm defending it my way, which is the only way I can.

Somehow, 'A Clockwork Orange' is at 54. The Brits are loony.
Finally seen what James King (Radio 1's replacement for Mark Kermode) looks like. He looks like a fashionable, modish fool. He is the anti-Kermode. (Mark Kermode is the man I consider to be king of the film critics.)

Superman is number 50. Have suddenly realised that the main problem of any Superman film/tv show/etc that is not this is that they don't have Christopher Reeve.

Also, Cutthroat Island, much though it made a huge loss, is not a bad film.

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Random late night film featuring Toby from the West Wing and a dyed blond Karl Urban. Hitting people! I'm happy. Actually he was playing one scary ass motherfucker (with due apologies to Samuel L. Jackson)
And Martin Donovan, but he's expected in crazy films.

And also Patrick Malahide, whose picture I put up yesterday. Only he's about 20-30 years older now. Although Martin Donovan, the way he looks at the end of this, would do as Lupin too.

Peter Jackson and Fran Walsh are on the thank yous at the end of the film, it's a conspiracy I tell you.

On a similar tip, there's a new film out called 'Asylum' with Sir Ian McKellan and Martin Csokas, starring with Natasha Richardson. Apparently there will be naked Martin Csokas, very naked, according to magazines. Other than fitting my belief that there's a Lord of the Rings conspiracy to get one of the people in it on to every film in existance, when I am back somewhere with a scanner, there's a tiny picture from the film that I may scan in.

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The present fashion for old fashioned military-style coats plays right into my hands, or rather my shoulders, because I have them. Bwahahaha. I saw this coat in Topshop yesterday, and I want, but it's £40 so I shall have to keep wanting. Mum doesn't mind getting it for Christmas for me, though. I even tried New Look (same designs, ish, as Topshop, about 20% cheaper, and their versions were just as expensive 'cause the coats are made of lovely wool, which costs a lot.)

Twig said something once about how most writers have one theme they keep coming back to, and I took a look at my fic, and found that this was true of me. So I said, okay, stretch yourself and don't write about it.

Reviewing the fics I'm working on now my grand theme of communication (or more exactly mis-communication normally) is sneaking in through the backdoor. Of five active fics, one is all about the two parties not communicating, another two are fics where the problems would have been solved had anyone bothered talking to each other, one is all about how what you say isn't always what you mean and the other is the one exception in that communication isn't mentioned except in the sense that an awful lot of the misery would have been avoided if one character actually paid attention to messages he gets.

And it's kind of aggravating to know that I've tried to avoid the topic but here I am stuck back on it again.

Other than that, I'm only miffed at WWE letting M. Hardy go because it makes no sense - he's a proven good mid-carder. But at the same time they've got enough people to not make it an issue. They've got people who are better talkers, and people who are more over.

And look on the bright side - TNA might pick him up and then he might actually get a belt. And hey, you never know he might be the guy that finally beats Jarrett. I work on the principle that someone has to be the guy that finally beats Jarrett. I have my heart set on it being one particular person, but at the same time my heart is dead set against it being him for other reasons.

The only thing actively aggravating me, uni work is passively aggravating me by its existance and my unwillingness to do it, is all these people getting on Lita's case being all 'she's a slut'. Dude, sleeping with one guy who isn't your boyfriend at the time does not make you a slut, it doesn't make you little miss perfect but it doesn't make you a slut either. And since we don't know any of the parties involved all kinds of anything could have caused it so I think it's a little bizarre to be finger-pointing.

Someone just mentioned Hector, Paris and Achillies as their one true threesome. Other than the basic silly someone stop me before I yell things about mortal enemies, war, walls, two of them being brothers and Patroclus.