The Somewhat Ambitious

Just in case you’ve missed it to date, here’s the 8-bit fuelled LEGO stop motion video that’s currently spreading through the internet like AIDS!
And I’m almost positive if you do a Google search for LEGO and AIDS this blog post will be the first to come up.
So… uh… that should increase traffic.

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I love, almost beyond my ability to describe it, the fact that there is an entire sub-genre of scientific endeavour devoted to feeding various animals psychotropic substances. Basically there is a group of scientists whose day to day job essentially involves them picking an animal and then deciding how they want to make it party. [...]

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Now, I really just don’t know how this makes me feel. On September 17, NBC is premiering a new show called ‘Community‘ that just so happens to be directed by Joe and Anthony Russo, the dudes who directed Arrested Development. Which is itself a show that, in terms of human achievement, I generally rank up [...]

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Anyone ever seen Fantastic Planet?
Yeah, I know. It sounds ridiculous. Thing is, I was raised on it. There was no better way for young Paul to trip balls (apart from the prolific amounts of toxic plants which grew under my house, which I ingested with gusto on more than one occasion. I was a sick, [...]

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While I was as partial to the works of Roald Dahl as any kid is, I must admit my more obsessive loyalties tended to lie with the venerable back-catalogue of Enid Blyton. Evidently I enjoyed my child-like whimsy with a healthy subtext of Aryan super-race (the phrase “black as a nigger with soot” really takes [...]

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Ah. That takes the pain away.
/Luke

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I can quite honestly say I would take a far more pressing interest in Australian parliamentary happenings if they bore more of a resemblance to those of South Korea:

So, that happened yesterday. Democracy. The highlights are multiple, but I particularly enjoy the lady screeches at 0:10 and the awesome fighting moves at 0:26. Apparently they [...]

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The one thing that truly creeped me out as a child (and now), is sex education. The very notion of having people talk with me about sex, especially when said people are adults wearing either a) gingham or b) tweed repulses me to the very core of my being. In fact, the idea of adults [...]

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When I was five, way back when in the heady computing days of 1990, my father dazzled the family by bringing home our first PC – a large, grey, boxy 286 Amstrad with a DOS prompt, a 5 1/4 inch disk drive and a black and green word processor. And I loved it. Yes, even [...]

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Ok, it’s been quite a morning. Let me fill you in on the past 24 hours, as a LOT of weird and tragic shit has happened.
1) Farrah Fawcett died, aged 62, of anal cancer. Jesus.
This is just awful. Confusing, pointless, and an awful way to go. Also, previously I’d have giggled at the word anal, [...]

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