Archive for the ‘TV’ Category

Up And Running Again

Monday, April 13, 2009 7:29 Comments Off

Hello. I hope you all had a lovely Easter with lots of eggy goodness. Today a delightful young chap from NTT came round and reconnected me to the interwomb with a nice new fibre-optic umbilical. I feel whole again. Lots of things have been going on. I’ve moved to a new place with mostly good [...]

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Ends and Beginnings

Monday, March 23, 2009 10:24 Comments Off

Hmmm. I watched the Battlestar Galactica two-hour finale today and hmmm…. Well, that was a great show and it had a good finish but still… After wondering for so long just how they were going to wrap everything up and explain away so much that was seemingly inexplicable, it came as a little bit [...]

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Tres Bien

Wednesday, December 10, 2008 6:28 Comments Off

Last night the guys I teach in Osaka took me to a magic bar called Vernon’s where you can be entertained by a magician at your table. The main magician at the bar was a TV celebrity known as ムッシュ・ピエール or Monsieur Pierr whose shtick is that he pretends to be French and says tres [...]

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Supernatural

Friday, October 24, 2008 9:44 Comments Off

I’ve watched this show avidly since it started three years ago. It’s hokey and silly, a whole lot of fun and I love it and after yesterday’s show I love it even more. Because of this:

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Holy Crap! I’m 38…

Sunday, July 6, 2008 9:47 Comments Off

…How did that happen? Well, having celebrated more than plenty on Friday night, I opted for a quiet night in on the day itself. “Let’s stop in with a DVD” says I, “Something light and fluffy. Nothing too heavy. A romantic comedy perhaps…” But instead I ended up watching “Reign Over Me” which is a [...]

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Sentiment

Monday, June 30, 2008 6:46 1 Comment

Here’s a nice story I spotted on Japan Probe today: Elementary schoolers watch whalemeat processing.
Clutching a notebook and a pencil, Yuna and her classmates occupied the front row of the crowd Wednesday, bending forward to watch a 10-metre (33-foot) animal — the town’s first catch of the three-month season — be dismembered.
“Look! That’s her [...]

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Doctor Who

Wednesday, May 21, 2008 5:15 Comments Off

There’s a fresh post up on Deep Kyoto tonight of Nest; a wan-chan cafe for dogs and dog-walkers.
The big news for Doctor Who nerds is that Russell T. Davies is stepping down from the helm and handing over the reigns of power to Steven Moffat. A wise move as pretty much everything Steven Moffat writes [...]

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Why Don’t You…?

Monday, October 22, 2007 7:58 2 Comments

tv-links.co.uk disappeared a couple of days ago and I was assuming it would be right back up soon but then I read this and I’m gutted. I’d just got started on Season 2 of Battlestar Galactica. How else am I going to watch it out here in Japan? Darn.
Looks like I’ll have to go back [...]

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The Thick of It

Wednesday, September 26, 2007 7:08 Comments Off

Up on Deep Kyoto today, a fresh posting on the famous folky peacenik cafe Honyarado.
My old friend Simon Blackwell wrote to tell me that there’s a book of scripts out for The Thick of It, the political sitcom he co-writes, and thus he is listed as an author on Amazon for the first time [...]

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Harry Patch

Monday, July 30, 2007 8:40 Comments Off

I was reading today, about the last surviving veteran of the WWI trenches, the magnificently named Harry Patch, and I was thinking that this remarkable man, at 109, and having all those memories that no-one else living has, he must be feeling pretty lonely. And here’s the thing, he never spoke about the war until [...]

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