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11 months agoAnd for the ladies..
RIP, Chris: You made us believe a man could fly.
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11 months agoSpider-Man
Just finished reading the surprisingly excellent ‘Unscheduled Stop’ ASM two-parter by Mark Waid and incredible art talent Marcos Martin. As a stand-alone story it is terrific, with drama, pathos,…
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11 months agoBetter part of love continues
I’m almost there and, sure enough, I feel like a woman must feel at the end of a pregnancy: wanting to have the damn baby already and enough with the waddling around and the sore back. Not that I can…
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11 months ago from bookmarkletTrailer for the new Star Trek reboot is up and is seriously cool. Guaranteed to annoy old fart hardcore fans and thrill the rest of us. Yaay for glass interiors of the Enterprise!
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11 months ago from bookmarkletKanye West's Elvis Presley Complex - Yahoo! News- Kanye is a twat.
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11 months ago from bookmarklet"ODDS ON NEW DOCTOR FROM PADDY POWER (3rd Nov 2008)
2/1 David Morrisey 6/1 Paterson Joseph 8/1 James Nesbitt, Chiwetel Ejiofor
10/1 Russell Tovey, John Simm
12/1 Anthony Head 14/1 Robert Carlyle, David Walliams
16/1 Richard E Grant 18/1 Richard Coyle, Aidan Gillen, Alan Davies, Sean Pertwee 20/1 Jason Statham, Harry Lloyd, Nigel Harman, Marc Warren, Jack Davenport
25/1 Julian Walsh, Adrian Lester, Alexander Armstrong
33/1 Julian Rhind-Tutt, Rupert Penry-Jones, James McAvoy
40/1 Bill Nighy, Stephen Fry, Ben Wishaw 50/1 John Barrowman, Ben Miles, David Suchet, Hugh Laurie 66/1 Gary Oldman, Matt Smith, Paul Bettany, Joel Beckett, Christopher Eccleston 80/1 Alex Kingston, Dean Lennox Kelly, Christopher Villiers
100/1 Ricky Gervais 150/1 Hugh Grant, Russell Brand, Vinnie Jones
200/1 Robbie Williams" -
11 months agoHow not to disappear up one's own arse
It’s easy to feel clever and thrilled with one’s own cleverness. And then you remember that Mozart was composing symphonies when he was in the womb. Sigh.
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11 months agoThe Better Part of Love
Hello all, here’s a piece from my upcoming new book, ‘The Better Part of Love’, which is a short story collection with all the stories looking at different aspects of love and relationships. I’ve…
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11 months ago
A taste of 'The Better Part of Love'
Here’s a piece from one of the stories in my upcoming second book, a collection of short stories titled ‘The Better Part of Love’. All of the stories in the book deal with some aspect of love or relationships and I think it’s going to offer everyone something they’ll enjoy and hopefully think about.
The story this piece is from is ’ The Lie in the telling’ and this is about a guy called Steven who has, very foolishly, just cheated on his amazing girlffriend, Allie, and now is having an attack of the guilts and isn’t sure what to do. His first impulse is to tell her but he decides to talk to a few people first who will be able to offer him different perspectives.
I had a lot of fun with this one and all the characters took over their bits with their dialogue so hopefully you will all get something out of it.
And was it even worth it? I mean, is it ever?
If you weigh everything you stand to lose up against any possible gain then ‘no’. It very rarely was. You have one drunken night of messy sex with a strange girl which in turn puts everything you have built up with your long-term girlfriend at risk. Not really the smartest thing to do. But it was never really about smarts.
Steven knew it had been a mistake the moment he left the girl’s apartment. The weight of memories of him and Allie overwhelmed him. The girl he had fallen in love with and their first few dates. He remembered them moving in together, those first few incredible nights.
And now he had cheated on her.
All those promises to be true to each other, to be honest with each other.
‘And no matter what, we will always be honest. ‘
‘Honesty is something I take so seriously. ‘
‘Because if we don’t have honesty, what do we have left? ‘
‘ If we start lying to each other, it’s over.’
‘Actually, honesty is something I just peed all over last night. Sorry about that. ‘
Fuck.Score-Card: Steven’s internal conscience says to tell Allie.
He sat on a rock, overlooking the wooded area of their apartment complex. Allie was gone to work already. Just thinking about her right now made him feel like such a shit.
Actually, there was no feeling. He just was a shit, right now.
Ugh. He was also a hungry shit.
He hated not knowing which way to go.
He felt awful and wanted to feel better.
He wanted to make it up to Allie, but of course that would mean that he would have to make her feel bad in the first place so that he could then try to make her feel better. His head wasn’t in the right place for such torturous circular logic right now -
11 months ago from bookmarkletJames has Manilow on iPod - Yahoo! News
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12 months agoHope
You know something? Fuck them. Fuck all of them.
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12 months ago from bookmarkletMake It Right Foundation New Orleans
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1 year agoTen Essential American Modern Musical Classics
The question would come down to ‘what pieces of modern American music represent the current state of the country, it’s people and what it means? ’
1) ‘Somebody’s Baby’ - Jackson Browne,
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1 year agoJust when I thought I was out...
You bastards. You silly silly silly annoying bastards.
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1 year ago from bookmarklet
‘Heroes’ third season perks up slightly and manages to semi-redeem itself for me with the introduction of charismatic legend Robert Forster as Arthur Petrelli. Yes, the show continues to have some dreadful acting and apalling scripting but RF and even the brief cameo of David Anders and ‘Bubs’ from ‘The Wire’ shows that it’s not entirely crap.
via heroestvnews.com
