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[lederhosen]

In the noble low-budget tradition of Dungeon Majesty: Fantasy Bedtime Hour. Two women in bed read and discuss Lord Foul's Bane. (Visually work-safe thanks to strategically placed sheets, AFAICT from brief examination; audio probably not work-safe.)

"My son becomes a man, gets +2 STR, +1 DEX." A geek's pride as his 13-year-old son gets his first set of roleplaying dice.

Tuesday, the RAAF will be holding a funeral service in Hanover for the crew of a Lancaster PB290 bomber shot down in 1944. One of them, Richard Hawthorn, was a cousin of my late grandmother; beyond that, all I know about it is what's in the article.

Reasons not to see 'Wedding Crashers'. I don't think there's any topic that should be completely off-bounds for humour - one of the ways we cope with wrongness in our world is to joke about it - but *trivialising* rape is remarkably uncool.

OTOH, 'Wallace and Gromit: Curse of the Were-Rabbit' was very good. IMHO, best Aardman so far :-) And several gags in there that the little ones *won't* get...

Comments

[nhinx.livejournal.com]

Do you read the Straight Dope boards (http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/index.php?) too, or did you come up with the FBH link independently? (If you don't, you should, as I can imagine you'd love it.)

Corrvin

[lederhosen.livejournal.com]

I got sent it by another friend a couple of hours before you posted the link. I've enjoyed what I've seen of Straight Dope; I don't get the time to read it regularly, but I'll look in once in a while :-)

[barberio.livejournal.com]

It is highly unfair that you get to see Wallace and Gromit a month before us.

I shall complain. Or at least fume, and wave my fist at figures of authority.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

Suffer. So often we wait extra time for things you get to see on the real release dates.

We were lucky enough to catch an advance screening, though - it's not due out here officially until next Thursday.

[barberio.livejournal.com]

We normaly have to wait extra too... Katamari Damacy hasnt even been released here at all!

I just can't understand at all how a movie made in england gets released here the latest of all!

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

But W&G was made in the US...

[barberio.livejournal.com]

Nope, made by Aardman animation studios in Bristol. As was Chicken Run, and all the previous W&G short films.

[reynardo.livejournal.com]

My apologies. I had thought both were made in LA, in the Dreamworks studios.

[shadow-5tails.livejournal.com]

*blush* I feel very silly for not knowing what you were talking about in your SMS. Though it's at least a little vindicating to know that I'm not the only one who needed it explained...

Will look forward to seeing werebunnies when the chance arises.

[velvetink.livejournal.com]

About 18months ago we found out where my father's cousin's grave is, {the family didn't know all this time either,} who was also in the RAAF {a warrant officer in Lancasters & Halifax's} during WW2.KIA in August 1944. It's surprising how many Lancasters and Halifax's went down and how young so many of the crew were. . :(