February 2010
52 posts
2 tags
Feb 28th
1 tag
Feb 28th
1 tag
Feb 27th
1 tag
Feb 26th
3 tags
Feb 26th
1 tag
Pay Day Play Days →
Today is pay day! (For me, at least.) I am usually relatively unexcited by this occasion, but this month I have spent all my available funds and find myself in desperate need of a top-up to get me…
Feb 26th
1 tag
Feb 25th
1 tag
Feb 24th
1 tag
Charity Begins At Home (So Why Try Harder?) →
Today on Feeding The Black Dog: Charity. I was tempted to begin this very special entry with a short appeal for donations to the Nick Bryan Beer & DVDs Fund. I am not a registered charity, nor can…
Feb 24th
3 tags
A Rare Book Review: Cloud Atlas
Tonight, I finished reading the novel Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell (no, not that David Mitchell), which I started a couple of weeks into the new year and have been picking through ever since. In my defence, it is quite long. I didn’t think many blogs would want my personal opinions about a years-old book, but after completing this Herculean reading task, I felt compelled to type something...
Feb 23rd
1 note
1 tag
Feb 23rd
1 tag
Feb 22nd
1 tag
No Spring In This Step →
Next week, it is March. According to my very basic understanding of the calendar, spring is meant to start around that kinda time. Counting each season as a three month period, anyway, it should…
Feb 22nd
4 tags
Avatar - Belated Review
Finally saw Avatar a week ago. However, my brief attempts to interest ‘proper’ blogs in a review didn’t go well, as the movie is now over two months old. So I ended up writing this piece for Dorkadore, focusing on its massive financial success (albeit with a few review-esque snippits). However, I review things out of love, not just as a “job”. So I wrote a straight...
Feb 21st
1 tag
Feb 21st
1 tag
Feb 20th
1 tag
Feb 19th
1 tag
Walking The Black Dog – 19/02/2010 →
Sorry, I’ve been a bit negligent in my FTBD duties this week. Have been rather busy, frequently drunk and finally climaxing in heading off to stay away from home for the weekend shortly. So I…
Feb 19th
1 tag
Feb 18th
1 tag
Feb 17th
1 tag
Avatar And Its Massive Success - by me@Dorkadore →
Feb 17th
1 tag
Ash Wednesday – Do You Give Up? →
It is the start of Lent, and many people will take the opportunity to imitate Jesus. Even the non-Christians get in on the act, ditching a bad habit or two to try and imitate Christ’s 40 days of…
Feb 17th
1 tag
Feb 16th
1 tag
Feb 15th
3 tags
Teenage Pregnancy Less Rife Than Previously... →
So, the Tories gave the teen pregnancy rate in the 10 most disadvantaged areas of the UK as 54%. But it turns out they misplaced a decimal point and it’s actually 5.4%. But it’s okay because this makes no different to the overall findings of the report. That report must’ve been pretty loose if it can afford to lose nine tenths of its pregnant teenagers. (Disclaimer: I...
Feb 15th
1 tag
Feb 14th
1 tag
My FTBD Valentine →
(Title to be read so it rhymes with “My Funny Valentine”. Might require some creative pronunciation.) Obviously, Valentine’s Day is designed to make singletons miserable, couples nervous and the…
Feb 14th
1 tag
Feb 13th
1 tag
Feb 12th
1 tag
Feb 11th
1 tag
Social Media Versus Black Dog →
With the launch of Google Buzz, this seemed a fair time to dribble about these crazy “social” sites and how they tie into whatever I’m talking about here. After all, every blog has at least one…
Feb 11th
3 tags
Captain America, Fox News and Tea Bagging →
Since something newsworthy has sprung from the world of comics, I felt I could finally afford to give some blog-space to that dark corner of my hobby time. Basically, Marvel Comics’ Captain America series has managed to offend America’s Tea Bag protesters by implying they might be rascist. Fox News, who love the chance to paint lefties as attacking righties, jumped on the story. The...
Feb 10th
1 tag
Feb 10th
1 tag
Feb 9th
1 tag
Feb 8th
1 tag
Feb 8th
1 tag
The 1AM Bulletin →
It is one in the morning. The worrying part is, I’ve long ago stopped considering this to be “late”. This has become “bedtime”, simply because I need to be in bed by about now to get enough sleep….
Feb 7th
1 tag
Feb 7th
3 tags
Badminton Owch
Played badminton today, for the first time ever (or at least in a very very long time). After some concern in the run-up, mostly over the possibility of humiliating myself, I think it actually went okay. The aftermath, however, has been a bit of a drag. Mostly, I have been lying in bed, either asleep or complaining to myself about the considerable aches in my knees/neck/head/etc. Having not taken...
Feb 6th
1 tag
Feb 6th
1 tag
Feb 5th
1 tag
The Genius Trifecta →
According to Google, it was Thomas Edison who declared that genius was “1% inspiration and 99% perspiration”. This phrase has entered the lexicon for two good reasons. Firstly, people tend to find…
Feb 5th
1 tag
Feb 4th
2 tags
Sonic The Hedgehog 4 announced! →
Announced today, and provoking my inner child to leap out of his box and shriek, is Sonic The Hedgehog 4. This is a new Sonic game in the style of the old Megadrive classics, with none of this 3D stuff jammed in. Sonic has reportedly taken to 3D like a cod to a gravel pit for the most part, so this is potentially very good news. It also tempts me to seriously play a video game, which is a rare...
Feb 4th
1 tag
Spring Comic Book Movies - By me @ Dorkadore →
Feb 4th
1 tag
Feb 3rd
1 tag
Is My Short Attention Span Going To Be A Probl →
Of my many flaws, most of which are documented at length on this website, my attention span (or lack of same) has probably caused me the most grief. It’s tricky, knowing that if you glance away from…
Feb 3rd
Apple Core Confessions #1 →
Permalink | Leave a comment »
Feb 2nd
3 tags
Feb 2nd
1 note
1 tag
Feb 2nd