I just remembered this story...

I'm pretty sure it was Lord George Brown who was Foreign Minister in the Wilson Government back in the 1960s, who was allegedly rather fond of the bottle. The story goes that he was at an official reception in Peru and had had a few too many to drink. A band started to play and so Lord George Brown turned to the person next to him asking "Madam, would you care to dance?"

"Certainly not," came the curt reply. "For three reasons.

One, you're drunk.

Two, they're playing the Peruvian National Anthem

And three, I happen to be the Archbishop of Lima."

Sounds like a Bushism.

In other news, my mouth aches because someone started me of in a giggling fit for a couple of hours last night and I couldn't stop.

Ow.

Deaddie Van Halen

Eddie Van Halen may be 51 years old in chronological years, but he's got to be at least 80 in alcoholic meth-addicted rock star years, from the looks of this photo taken during an Academy Awards event in Hollywood.



He's looked better.

Corpses have looked better.

Yum. Strawberry bacon.

These succulent strips of Gummy Bacon are so realistic you'll want to fry some up and serve them with an egg and a side of hash browns.

But please don't.

Gummy Bacon should only be savored raw.

This is not your father's Marvel

Crossposted in scans_daily

In Marvels the Marvel universe was shown from the perspective of news photographer Phil Sheldon. The street-level series portrayed ordinary life in a world full of costumed supermen.

Then came Ruins in 1995, Warren Ellis' alternate take on the Marvel universe where something's gone horribly, horribly wrong.

Consider it as Marvels FROM HELL.

"On another world, they might've been mankind's greatest heroes - the Marvels. But for photographer Phil Sheldon, his is an altogether different reality - a world left in ruins.

With a camera that has seen it all...Sheldon travels the world, one step ahead of death and even deeper into a nightmare. His is a story that will shock his already crumbling world.

That is, if he lives to write it."



Warning - This is very very black stuff. It's not a fun read if you take it seriously.

But, it is a damn good one.

Here's the complete first issue. I'll paste the second issue as soon as I can.

Transformers movie has pedigree

This looks good.

Line Producer Ian (Spider-man) Bryce has posted an update which includes some of the crew working on the Transformers movie:

Costume Designer - Deb Scott (Titanic) (Oscar winner, I might add)
Assistant Director - Simon Warnock (Lord of The Rings)
Stunt Coordinator - Kenny Bates (Pearl Harbor, The Italian Job, Mr. & Mrs. Smith)
Cinematographer - Mitch Amundsen (Pirates of the Caribbean, The Bourne Supremacy, lots of Bay films, Heathers!)

Also on the progress:

Start building sets on location in a week
Start building sets in LA in less than a month
ILM now starting to build our CG robots

Casting's already started for the humans, although the TF voices are still open as they don't need to cast those for a while.

This should be gooood.