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Movies: Films I’d like to see again

December 15, 2002
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[The Worst Aphyx]I’ve just been speaking to my GESF (Green-Eyed Southern Friend) again – we’ve spoken quite a number of times this week in fact, but due to some potential confusion over what was said earlier in the week I decided not to write anything down as I might have been thinking the wrong thing and “jumping the gun”.

Anyway, as we were finishing the conversation, I promised that I’d send her the link to the Naked Quidditch Match, but she complained that she had no idea what Quidditch was as she hadn’t read any of the Harry Potter books as she thought it was just a blatant rip-off of Jill Murphy‘s “Worst Witch” books (and film and, more recently, the TV series).

That then started me thinking which films (that I haven’t already got) I would really like to see again. Ok, it’s now getting a little bit late for Christmas and some of them are “really oldies” or didn’t “take off” in a big way – but this is my blog and I wanna blog about these so there 🙂 I’ll just do two for tonight and two another night…

So: Why do I want to see “The Worst Witch” and “The Asphyx”?

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Weird: Origami Boulder

December 15, 2002
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[Origiami Boulder]Are you looking for an unusual present to get someone this Christmas? Well, how about something that combines the Japanese craft of Origami, the simplicity of a piece of paper and the conceptual masterpiece and design of a boulder/rock? Yep – you can know own (for the low cost price of just $10) your own Wadded Paper Origami Boulder – for an extra $5 you can also get it with a Haiku poem.

As the artist says: “This very nice artwork that come with card and make good gift for your friend. Your friend never forget you when you send fine art gift like this! I am famous Internet artist, so original wadded paper origami art become VERY VALUABLE some day. Especially haiku version, because it is double artwork.”.

Hmm – what a shame my Christmas shopping is nearly complete: I doubt they would have been able to ship it to me in time anyway…

Game: Lost Your Marbles?

December 14, 2002
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[Lost your Marbles?]It’s been a long and trying year for me (so no change from usual!), in fact some bits have been so stressful and strange, that I keep on thinking that perhaps, just maybe, I have lost my marbles and I’ll start saying flibblepenguin at the end of every other paragraph…

At least I can know fight back! Using my mouse (and my spacebar to speed up the Flash game), I can now find my marbles. The first level is quite easy, but they soon get more difficult – as you’ve got a moving maze and a ‘person’ that doesn’t quite do what you want them to do – you soon loose lives if you continue to hit the walls. I’ve managed to score 6280 (level 4: The Vault) so far – can you do any better? Flibblepenguin!

Friday Group Therapy: Friday the 13th

December 14, 2002
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leathercouch.jpgYep, I’m trying to continue the Friday Group Therapy thing that I joined last week. And, strangely enough, this weeks questions are orientated around Friday the 13th…

  1. How is Friday the 13th treating you so far?
    Well, I have to confess I spent most of the day asleep. I didn’t go to bed until around 6am on Friday morning (just couldn’t feel tired) – and then I slept right through until around 3.30am Saturday morning.
  2. What kind of luck do you usually have? Good, bad, a mix of both?
    I have to say, that I usually seem to have a mixture of luck. I haven’t won the lottery, but then neither have I been involved in a major accident: the worse one that I can recall is when I was travelling back on the school bus to home, we turned a narrow country lane, and due to the icy conditions a car (also coming round the corner, but from the opposite direction) hit the bus (just underneath from where I was sitting) and caused it to go into a ditch. We all had to climb out the back emergency exit. No one was injured, luckily, but the car was a write-off and the bus had to be off the road for a couple of weeks for repairs.
    Although, if any one “with influence” is reading this, I could do with a bit more good luck at this point…
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