My LiveJournal Sitcom fastfwd And Me ( QVC, 7:00 ): fastfwd (Vince Vaughn) uses coalescent (Omar Epps)'s water bottle. Nearby, del_c (Sir Ian McKellen) bakes 500 cookies for a bake sale, but mmarques (Mayim Bialik) eats them all. Soon afterwards, czarina69 (Warren Beatty) auditions for a movie starring opposite tregenza (Annette Bening). Later, billyabbott (Kathy Ireland) and...

Tonight I went off to watch "Derren Brown: Enigma" at the Adelphi Theatre (SJA duty). I'm not familiar with any of his previous work, although billyabbott has recommended one of his books. Anyway, it was very impressive, and I enjoyed it. He describes himself as a "fake psychic", i.e. he's not claiming to actually have any psychic powers, but he also insists that he doesn't use stooges in...

Image © Eric Hamilton Time for another terminology problem! What should we call the category for places where you can hire a shisha/hookah? Category Shisha? Category Hookah? Something else? (Note that we don't want slashes in category names, so Category Shisha/Hookah isn't an option.) As billyabbott points out over on Twitter , everyone likes a good poll, so here is a poll...

I am rather amused that it was the eighteenth amendment that installed the National Prohibition Act in the US constituion and the twenty-first amendment that repealed the act. I was out at Shepherd's Bush with friends last night to see Alabama 3. They were mighty fine. I also ran into billyabbott who let me stroke his shiny thing. (Sony eReader - and it is verily shiny!) My discoveredinalj...

so, it was my birthday the other day. a friend of mine told me i should get a ps3 and rock band, apparently oblivious to the fact that i had just turned 37. believe it or not, this made quite a difference. while pondering whether or not to get the ps3, i thought about my friends, and realised that most of them are happily married, have kids and dogs and are saving up for the next car. i figured it...