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Dr John plays Tipitina

Tuesday, January 26th, 2010

Dr John plays Professor Longhair’s Tipitina:

Four Lions

Monday, January 25th, 2010

A clip from Chris Morris’s upcoming Four Lions:

(thx to Iain)

Scorpion vs Sub-Zero

Monday, January 25th, 2010

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Roberto Demon

Monday, January 25th, 2010

Spotted on Boing Boing today:

The Morgan Library in New York is currenty exhibiting one of the great masterworks of medieval illumination, the Hours of Catherine of Cleves. All 157 miniatures have also been digitized.

Anyone who likes medieval illumination should definitely check it out. Page 75 is a personal favourite, a depiction of Hell itself which upon closer examination appears to be inhabited by a demon with something of a resemblance to everyone’s favourite stabby robot:

roberto demon

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One Froggy Evening

Saturday, January 23rd, 2010

One of my fondest childhood memories - Michigan J Frog in ‘One Froggy Evening’:

Two things:

  1. Who takes a pumpkin to the theatre?
  2. Flying cars and disintegration rays will be commonplace by the time I’m 70