Stavros

Well, at least i have thursday technically free so I can sit on a bench on buchanan street with a greggs and read the last of the most annoying arcs I've read of batman ever. Ever been to Glasgow, then you'll know where I'm talking about. We may have sat out on the same bench reading comics, my man. Ugh, I never stop in Glasgow longer than I have to. I've heard its a nice city but I've never seen that bit and I've been there about 9 times. If you're look to interrupt me reading comics I'm in a blue van parked halfway home on Cumberland Road next to the river in Bristol, chowing down on a Magic Roll.

All UK comics shop release on Thursday. I know, I've been to most of them (Don't care if I'm in Inverness for work, I needs me comics).

Well, Stavros you know more about UK politics than I ever will.....lets keep it that way. Your right thought, we have had someone who has been unelected in power for over a year, and it's now that I notice the irony of that in what is meant to be a democracy. Now for someone to chime in on why my political view is wrong. We are a democracy, but our rules can be played a little fast and loose because of the nature of our nation. We have no constitution, just a constitutional monarchy that allows the government to rule at its pleasure. The check and balances that so paralyze the US system are not evident because they are unspoken, a series of traditions and silent agreements that maintain our government. The vast majority of newly democratic nations deliberately avoid both the UK and US systems because from an academic standing they are massively flawed as working models of democracy. Its the height of irony that the model most followed for new systems is Germany, a system that remains largely unchanged from the one that elected Hitler. This is whats considered preferable to aping our so called western democracy.

With us we've had an unelected leader in charge of our nation for over a year now, and its no bad thing. The man won the vote inside his party and the party speaks for their constituencies. If he's bad then he's called to account at the next general election, so its in the interest of the ruling party to play fair with the people, or it could cost them their position of power. I'm damn sure happier about our system than the US one, and thats the one thats going to have the most impact internationally.

Yes it means you officially joined my cult, it's £4.95 for the first month and £7.95 for each additional month you a member of the cult. You'll never get rid of all those T-shirts with your face on it, no matter how you dress it up. It was a bad investment, no-one wants to walk around wearing a shirt with a design that looks like someone tried to put out a forest fire with a screwdriver.

The Wire season 5. I stopped after the first two after it got depressing but after coming back to it his weekend I'm burning through it. I'm too far along to not know how this finishes out, and the final plot threads are pretty compelling even if its for the wrong reasons.

Is "Friend of Suavestar" official jargon for the obvious now?

This isn't actually the names of any of Stavro's pets, this is the pending title for his autobiography. Which I am going to steal... My autobiography was going to be called Stavros Kaplinsky: A Tale Of Daring & Heroism That May Never Have Happened, but unfortunately I haven't been able to create sufficient ambiguity around the highly publicized events of my life. The arty approach will suffice for this stopgap edition. Years from now I'll dismiss it as the work of a hack ghostwriter and sue Keanu Reeves for stealing my real life stories and reenacting them on film. So how about you Double S? Any pets you haven't sacrificed to a lesser demon yet?

Honey. Hamster. Dead. Nicky. Tortoise. Alive. Dubs =

You might as well sig that.

That was my dad's old jacket, and I'm quite a bit broader now than was then. I'd bust out of that thing hulk style if I tried it on now. Shame, he also gave me a dark red leather jacket with cream & blue patterning, that thing was the bomb.

Its a great cartoon, but like every show it has its problems. Don't be too quick to judge it.

Good series, they really did a no compromise quality job on keeping the effect realistic, although it could have stood to be spun out a little longer. I don't feel that we got to know the characters as much as we should, the dynamic never really changed around enough. Very good for TV horror though, it certainly proved that we brits can do more than Dr Who level stuff wen it comes to effects driven shows. My only problem-

I fell asleep reading final crisis and woke up at 4.30am to go to work. No celebration for me. The only significant Halloween I can remember was about eight years ago when I dyed my hair blond and dressed up as Spike from Buffy. Had the full length leather jacket and everything, that was awesome.

I watch the first one and was so disappointed by the criminal lack of character given to Tony Head that I stopped watching. His role was so generic it hurt.

Routh was great in Returns, I'm very much in favor of him taking the role on again.

....BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Thats never been my problem. I know little about this series, so the inclusion of an ape-based conundrum is a definite hook to me checking this out.

I guess theres only so long you can make a living out of taping a cockrel to your head.

Well maybe I need to start reading what forum I'm posting in.

It was both terrible and wonderful, like looking to the eyes of God and realizing that he's leering at you suggestively.

I got a volume of Bone, and its so nice I'm considering getting all the individual books rather than the cheaper omnibus.

Nothing. Its not on the iTunes wfp page. Wait, not it is. Its DLing on my workstation PC but not on my laptop, which has an identical connection and is sat right next to it on the desk. How does that work?

what about using the earth-2.net toolbar? I've used that several times it works good granted you can't fast forward but still it's another way to listen. Eh, I'm in the middle of an Uncanny X-cast right now, I most want WFP to drive home to after work.

Still not on UK iTunes though. My ipods so shredded today what with system restarts and fails that I'm terrified to even try to sync it right now, but for WFP I'll risk it.