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Jessica Fletcher, style icon

Silver — Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:46:13 +0000

I see you, Daily Mail

gremlin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 22:17:41 +0000

“Channel 4’s latest attempt to seduce us with a mixture of swearing and sex comes in the form of True Blood, the latest in the long line of sexually explicit, violent and vulgar programmes that have, sadly, become the norm on British television. True Blood is a shocking tale of depravity, explicit sexuality (bordering on pornography) and vile language.”

“More offensive than all this is the sheer distasteful nature of the content. There’s oral sex, overt discussion of genitalia, graphic sex scenes and foul language.”

BUT THE CHILDREN.

Happy 40th Birthday, Oscar

gremlin — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 20:34:02 +0000

You and I share more than a sunny disposition and plimsolls so old and gross they have to be taped together.

We also love thrash.

And James Taylor. (I could watch that all day.)

I think you might be my real dad.

We know you know…

Silver — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 21:15:08 +0000

that the new sexed up Alpen adverts are disconcerting.

FACT: Alpen is what people eat to keep their bowel movement regular.

No number of semi-naked men or women can make that fact sexy. Epic fail Alpen. Epic.

iron chef

Silver — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 16:49:43 +0000

I really do love culinary shows, particularly ones with a game-show element. I love Masterchef. I love Ready Steady Cook. And I especially love Come Dine With Me (in spite – or perhaps because – of it’s inane repetitive nature and that irritating voice over man who makes everyone seem like a complete twat).

At least that’s what I thought. In actual fact, I don’t love cooking programmes, I love British cooking programmes. American cookery shows are a different kettle of pan fried fish altogether. They are – like most American tv programmes – absolutely mental.

And none more so than Iron Chef America.

Hmmmm. Not convinced by the mentalness. Lets look at my favourite part of the show. The special ingredient part…

Ooooooh

Aaaaaaah

Convinced? Lets proceed.

Iron Chef America is based on a Japanese (obviously!) show – Iron Chef. The original name for the Japanese version was ‘Ironmen Cooking’. Needless to say, I much prefer the original name. It describes the show with far more accuracy and finesse. I wish it was still called that.

ps. Jamie Oliver was a guest chef last year.
pps. Check out their outfits. Please.
ppps. Wanna know more, take a look at the unbelievably detailed Wikipedia entry.

Hey FNL – You, I adore

gremlin — Wed, 09 Sep 2009 21:23:29 +0000

Friday Night Lights is unbelievably earnest, the team have group prayers before games, Coach Taylor (using the power of his hair/sunglasses) gives cheesy locker room pep talks and they all chant ‘Clear eyes, full hearts, can’t lose’ at some point every game to motivate themselves to victory. Matt Saracen (oh number 7 you’re the prince of awkward cute!) SINGS HIS SENILE GRANDMOTHER TO SLEEP.

But I will (uncharacteristically) never mock any of these things, because FNL is so fuck awesome and slow-clap epic that I cannot quite put my love of it into words. Just know that in walking past a place called ‘Bigguns ribs’ in my lunch break, I thought that it said ‘Riggins Ribs’ and that some genius had named a restaurant after my favourite Texan teen alcoholic Tim Riggins.

Yes, Tim, a rib shack. Named after you.

I am so excited for season 4 my facial expression looks a bit like the guy on the far right at the back.

Creative writing. Post watershed.

gremlin — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 22:24:28 +0000

I enjoy browsing the categories in on fanfiction.net to find the most bewildering things people choose to write about. Let’s just take the TV section, for example. The TV section, which includes fanfic for the following:

Airwolf ; Ballykissangel ; Inspector Lynley Mysteries ; Lazytown ; Monarch of the Glen ; Murder She Wrote ; Round The Twist ; Steptoe and Son.

That’s just the tip of an iceberg that includes an All Creatures Great and Small category. Yes, there are 29 stories about All Creatures Great and Small. I read the summaries, and yes, James Herriot slash fiction exists.

Use this image as a starting point for your own sexy vet story.

Not content with this mistake, I carried on the English countryside theme and found the Watership Down category. Surely there wouldn’t be an explicit, M-rated story about rabbits?

Oh. Right then.

move over chuck bass

Silver — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 23:15:47 +0000

PC has stolen my heart

I’m so sorry CB! Take solace in the knowledge that once you were loved.

Muppet Scando-Hotness

gremlin — Thu, 20 Aug 2009 21:38:47 +0000

Farväl

gremlin — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:29:56 +0000

RIP Godric. I got quite upset during the bit in Swedish, although I did become slightly distracted by his ugly sandals. I will miss his and Eric’s love connection, and his strangely calm demeanour.

When Sookie was disgusted at the thought of finding Eric sexually attractive, you know everyone with eyes was thinking “is something wrong with you?” Since she’s with Bill and his wig, the answer to that should be obvious.

One of my many favourite aspects of True Blood is the ridiculous height difference between Alexander Skarsgard and the midgets that make up the rest of the cast. Also, this reminds me of Brad and Ray Ray (tiny Ultimate Cute Boy!) in Generation Kill, my television obsession of 2008. Silver is still not sold on GK, but she’ll see the light.

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