Twilight

Oh dear god. What have I done? I've started a blog post about the movie Twilight. Kill me know.

My flatmate, the sweet thing she is, convinced me to go see the newest movie in the 'saga', called New Moon, with her last night. I reluctantly agreed, and was looking forward to at least attending the movies, which I haven't done in ages.

Many of you LOVE the books/movies. And by LOVE, I mean LOVE. LOVE in capital, bold-faced, italicized font. LOVE in 72pt font. I got it. It's okay. I have that kind of love for other things in life... Twilight, I fear, holds no love for me. The first movie was painful. The acting was painful and the story felt juvenile to me.

I'm happy to report that even though this new movie contained all the poor acting and angst-ridden teenage drama that I'm sad to admit I don't relate to anymore (BUT I DON'T WANT TO GROW UP!), it was more action packed and had a larger budget, which was more pleasing to the eye.

Why is this relevant, you ask? Well, the point of all those well-thought-out paragraphs above was to get to this point. Sitting through the movie and eating an entire bag of candy from Poundland was so that I could direct you to this video:

What is this, a TWILIGHT video? Well... sort of.

Remember Mystery Science Theatre 300? If you don't, SHAME ON YOU! If you do, then there's no further explanation required. The lovely minds/voices from the original series (some of them), have reformed to make Rifftrax, which do the same thing MST3K did with old, crappy movies, but to current, crappy movies. And above is a taste of what they've done to the first Twilight movie. It's pretty humorous. And I think you should watch it.

I won't, however, encourage you to see Twilight: New Moon. I'll leave that life-altering decision up to you.

SkiFree

Many of you read XCKD and love it as much as I do. Many of you don't read it and you should. Go here and read it. Many others don't read it and really then, 99% of it will be irrelevant. Either way, seeing as I clocked many an hour playing SkiFree as a child, I enjoyed their comic strip.

I also remember, as many of you will, the sheer terror that was that %*&#!@ abominable snow monster that got you EVERY TIME!

I never know about hitting "F" until I downloaded it many months ago. Now I always beat the snowman.

If you would like to either catch up on a childhood game or learn a new game, go here and download SkiFree. Many many hours of wasted time await you.

P.S. Season premiere of QI last night was awesome. Everything I wanted it to be. Now if I could only get some tickets to see it live my life would be complete. I'll settle on the BBC iplayer for now to keep me afloat.

QI

In celebration of a new series of QI (Series G), I offer you this preview of the new series:

OMFG. Can't wait another 2 hours for this show to start. Time. Fly. By. FASTER!
In the meantime, enjoy some other QI clips I pulled off of YouTube:

Walking in the Park

Even though the weather turned lovely this morning and made me feel utterly guilty about wanting to sleep in and stay indoors, I pretty much did just that.

I took one small detour down to the park to feed the birds. While the weather looked lovely, the wind whipping off the lake was quite cold, so I didn't last very long. It was quite windy, too, blowing the pigeons around and such.

I'm back at work again tomorrow, for the long stretch, so this will be it for "taken by Leanna" photos for another week or so. Although I will continue to post other things as I find them.

Enjoy.

Snow

I just giggled to myself at the following information:

The average temperature in London, England, for the month of December is between 2 and 6. The record low is -6.

...

-6.

Record.

To compare... the record low in Calgary for any January is -46.

...

And the average daily temperature is between -4 and -16.

Giggle.

More fun posts later, just had to share this fun fact.

Randoms

Well, as I've been working quite steadily over the past week, I don't have much to share with you. Instead, I thought I'd share the following:

First, a funny clip from "Whose Line is it Anyway" from back in the day that I find so very very amusing:

And second, a quote from the show the IT Crowd, which I fully intend to try to work into a conversation in the near future. Bonus points if it's with a customer who has no idea what I'm talking about:

Mos said it, from what I remember, in terms of people having no faith in his new invention:

"Well, prepare to put mustard on those words, for you will soon be consuming them, along with this slice of humble pie that comes direct from the oven of shame, set at gas mark egg on your face."

Best. Quote. Ever. I love the "Gas Mark egg-on-your-face". Just love it.

I picked up a shift tomorrow, so I fear I won't have interesting things to post until Wednesday, but stay tuned!

Hugh Dennis

The man on the left (in the giant, yellow, circle) is Hugh Dennis. He's on a funny show called Mock the Week with Dara O'Briain, as well as a comdey called Outnumbered, which I've never seen.

How is this relevant, you ask?

Well, I'll tell you..

HE WAS IN MY HMV TODAY!!! SHOPPING AND BUYING THINGS!!!

And where was I, you ask?

.... on my lunch break, in the back room.

*Facepalm*

What a shame. I don't think any of my work-friends spoke to him in terms of "Hi, you're famous", although he did buy something and then the loss-prevention guys looked at him from the security cameras in the back. We're such pervs.

Bummer. My first non-Stephen Fry, non-event famous person sighting and I wasn't even present! Oh well.

I have, however, reminded Ali, one of our loss-prevention peeps, who also shares my love for Stephen Fry, that if he should ever come into the store, she had better call me out onto the shop floor!

What a day.

A Mash-Up of Things for You

Hello one and hello all. Welcome back. Now that I'm only getting out of the house maybe 1 day a week, I haven't many interesting things to tell/show you. Other than, of course, my new TOP GEAR advent calender, about which I know you are all anxiously waiting for the beginning of December for me to unveil the first "Some Say..." fact about the Stig.

In the meantime, please enjoy this gathering of videos and images for your enjoyment:

Eddie Izzard has a new DVD out on Monday, and I'm hella excited about it! You can never go wrong with Eddie Izzard, and his website has released this short clip in anticipation of the DVD.

Click on this link here to watch the clip, and I hope that it works for you.

It's Christmas-time, people! And in celebration of that, I have tried my first-ever mince-meat pie, which, yes, I know, doesn't contain any meat. Above, again, if it works for you, is this years version of the famous M&S Christmas Ad. And, if it helps, this year features one of my favourite Brits. :)

One of my other favourite comedians, Michael McIntyre, also released a DVD last week. It's a real laugh, although not as much as his first DVD.
Unfortunately I have no links for this DVD, although I'm sure eventually bits will show up on YouTube. Still damn funny.



Speaking of Stephen Fry, he has finally acheived one million followers on Twitter. If you don't know what twitter is, go here and find out.
In celebration of having one million followers, Stephen Fry released the above video on his website. It's very strange and rather amusing and very strange again. This video comes from the future, apparently, and this future version of Stephen Fry gives the following (highly amusing) predictions about the future:

• Cold fusion is achieved and the energy problems of the world are over.
• Food problems are solved and poverty is over.
• Substance Energy Congruency Beams allow the transportation and replication of all molecular matter.
• The iPhone is still not flash enabled.
• The President of the United States is Zac Efron.
• The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom is Robert Pattinson. Praise be to Robert Pattinson.
• Norwich City achieved the double five times in a row.
• The words moon and spoon no longer rhyme.
• All inner thighs are called Godfrey.
• All left nipples are called Miriam and all right nipples are called Shane.
• A new molecular structure of carbon allows for exciting developments in cake and biscuit manufacture.
• Basketball is outlawed.
• Trousers demand independence.
• Humans no longer need to go to the lavatory. They go now just for pleasure.
• Peace is given a chance.
• The official marker pen of the future is the Sharpie.
• That is all you need to know.
• Oh, give Windows 8 a miss.

In particular, I am looking forward to the words "moon" and "spoon" no longer rhyming and will definitely give Windows 8 a miss. Either way, have a look and have a giggle.
And last, but not least, I've discovered another wicked British program called the IT Crowd. It's awesome. And funny. And all things British, which means sometimes it's dead awkward to watch.
I'd like to embed a video here for you to watch, but embedding is disabled, so click on this link and watch this clip in particular.

I hope you enjoyed this small glimpse into my British life. Most evenings are really spent in front of my computer and watching clips, or chatting with my flatmates, or, as it was the case tonight, grilling the best portobello mushrooms to put in pasta. Yum Yum!

Good night. I'm eating mince pies in your honour. They are tasty, but not the best pies I've ever eaten.

Some say...

... that I'm more excited about my new Top Gear advent calender than I should be, and that most of you won't know why I just wrote a sentence like that. It's okay.

Yes, I have a Top Gear advent calender. It's okay, mock me all you want, you know you want a new Stig fun-fact AND a chocolate daily AND a special prize on Dec 24th!

Yes, today was one of my two days off this week. Tomorrow is the other one, and that's a good thing, since it's currently past 1 a.m. and I would be seriously screwed if I had to get up tomorrow. But I don't. Tomorrow is reserved for laundry and cleaning and all the other unpleasantness of being a "grown-up". But I balance it out nicely with things like my advent calender and chocolate biscuits.

Other than whatever I wrote in the blog posts that follow this one (which I am rapidly forgetting given the hour and my current state of alertness), I didn't do a whole lot this week. No more shoplifters, thank goodness, and no more monsoons like we had this past weekend.

After my flatmate tried to de-ice our freezer with a knife and consequently broke it (giggle), we should be getting a new freezer by the end of the week. Which is a good thing, because I've been in the mood to eat chips (fries) and I had just bought a bag of the nice McCain's ones and then they got soggy in the inherent mess of a defrosting, broken freezer and had to be thrown away. I will purchase new ones ASAP. And they were crinkle cut, too.

I'm sure I'll come up with more interesting fun-facts later, and possibly even grace you with another blog post tomorrow, but no guarantees. We'll see how creative I'm feeling. Heh. In the meantime, enjoy the following blog posts!

Pelican

Okay, so, continuing on my DAY OF AWESOME-NESS (or whatever I called it), I decided to visit St. James Park and see how the autumn (yes, it's still autumn here) leaves were looking. However, a certain nosy pelican decided to pop his head into my photo to see what was going on...

And he was pretty friendly, so I just hung out with him (her?) for a while, snapping photos and the likes.
For such a large, intimidating bird, he didn't mind getting all that close to me. Mind the beak, though. I imagine they pack quite the snap.

I'd never seen a pelican up close before... I think. He even brought along a friend!

Eventually they gave up and retreated back to the water. I then retreated to Oxford Street to check out the Christmas lights (no pictures this time, I didn't bring my tripod), and warm up.
I do like pelicans, though.