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What does he have to do to make it his fault?

 

He'd have to develop a personality that isn't the direct result of the interaction between his genotype and his upbringing. That being impossible it'll never be correct to say it's his fault, though that's not to say he shouldn't be jailed if he's a significant risk to others.

 

 

No discussion of unconventionally attractive soap babes can exclude Julie and Anna from Corrie.

I'm probably missing something obvious here, but won't Smith be the eleventh incarnation? Who else are you counting, Peter Cushing? Richard E. Grant?

 

At a guess (and correct me if I'm wrong) I'd say he's counting Ten twice as he did regenerate i series four, but just enough to heal himself and not to change.

 

I'm quite sure the episode of Doctor Who Confidential which revealed Matt Smith as the new doctor was subtitled "The Tenth Doctor." So regardless of the reasoning behind it, one can be sure that the current writers consider Smith to be the 10th doctor. Also, in the most recent christmas special, when the Doctor saw the faces of all the previous doctors Cushing and Grant weren't represented. I think that was definately an explicit attempt to canonise the Doctor lineage in a very concrete way.

 

Edit: Checked wiki, the DWC episode was called 'The Eleventh Doctor.'

That was the most I've enjoyed the series for a couple of years now, though to be fair I didn't pay much attention to the last series. Thought it was great, liked the premise, liked the Doctor's power trip, liked the potential ramifications for future eps. Thumbs well up.

I'm about a third of the way through William S. Burroughs' Naked Lunch. It's not an easy book to explain because there doesn't appear to be any narrative or any kind of plot that I can comprehend, it's essentially a series of gruesome, disgusting and disturbing events observed by the author as he journeys through a world similar to our own except everybody is completely insane. Imagine Requiem For A Dream, Saw and the "ships log" sequence from Event Horizon and you're pretty much there. This is probably the most offensive and vile piece of literature ever published and yet I'm completely hooked on it.

 

I have a (stolen~) copy of Naked Lunch lying around somewhere but I've never managed to get more than about 50 pages through it. It's such a dense work of such a peculiar kind of genius that approaching it as a normal novel seems absolutely futile.

 

I did manage to read a volume of Burroughs' letters which spanned a decade or so, including the time he spent writing Naked Lunch and the obscenity trials he faced after it's publication. Most of the letters were written to Allen Ginsberg and included lots of early drafts of Naked Lunch routines and a few that didn't make it into the final manuscript. One particularly affecting routine, which I don't think appears in Naked Lunch, involves a man cathartically dismembering a huge centipede and rubbing the oozing pieces of it's body into his chest to the point of exhaustion as a means of pascifying latent homosexual urges. Found that much easier to digest.

Certain I posted here about House of Leaves when I read it a few years back, I think it's an incredible experience. Note, not necessarily best book ever but such a journey to read. Playing with the text and the layout to dramatic effect gets more and more interesting. You've a real treat ahead, it's one of those things where I wish I could forget what happened to re-read it clean.

 

I'm with Sickwoy, the Navidson stuff is more interesting first time round, and the Truant stuff makes more sense thereafter. Other quirks: I believe the first edition had a cover 3/4" shorter than the pages in the book (or whatever the discrepancy is in the house).

 

Absurd, but utterly gripping.

 

Yeah a mate of mine showed me a copy of it with the shorter cover. It's normally the kind of thing that I'd disregard as pretentious right away but this particular mate gushed about it, really tried hard to convince me it's worth the effort, and I take his opinions seriously. I've had the name of it saved in my phone with the intention of tracking down a copy for ages, I was under the impression it was quite obscure and little-heard-of but perhaps not.

Does the Undertaker have any children? Is he a jaffa?

 

Alex Hammond, the search says she hasn't been mentioned so far in the thread though I find it hard to believe. She's been the best thing about Sky Sports News for years but has been bumped on to an early morning spot with that black guy by Natalie Sawyer and the like. That black guy > all the other fellas on SSN as well.

 

Mike Wedderburn you mean.

 

Plus she isnt called Hammond now, she got married a while back - she is now Alex Quinn.

 

And for me she is hot but annoying, she likes horse racing a little too much for me im afraid. its the worst sport around, and she is always so excited by it.

 

Her wikipedia entry says she can play the tuba~.

 

Alex Hammond, the search says she hasn't been mentioned so far in the thread though I find it hard to believe. She's been the best thing about Sky Sports News for years but has been bumped on to an early morning spot with that black guy by Natalie Sawyer and the like. That black guy > all the other fellas on SSN as well.

Guys, any recommendations for books that have NYC as a backdrop? Sort of like 'A Guide To Recognising Your Saints'?

 

There are tons of what are often referred to as 'modern classics' set in New York, if you're considering straight fiction as well. The Catcher in the Rye for a start. And then lots of beat novels were set there; 'Go' by John Clellon Holmes, 'Junky' and 'Queer' by William Burroughs. I count those four among my favourite books.

What is Low Ki's race?

Andy Dunlop (the guitarist from Travis) is the nicest man in the world. Gave me a copy of Maggot Brain by Funkadelic out of his own record collection because I mentioned I'd heard it was good (and it is, awesome).

I want Stephen Fry or Russell Brand.

Anybody seen this?

A VIDEO has been released that claims to show aliens and their spacecraft with one UFO researcher calling it the "most important images of a UFO ever filmed".The vision was taken by 42-year-old night guard Yalcin Yalman in a compound in Turkey earlier this year, The Sun reports.

I only saw it mentioned in the Sun but my Dad said he heard it mentioned on the radio earlier today. Looks pretty fake to me, the close up shots of the craft at night at least, nothing else is seen in the night sky to give scale except for a few seconds when 'the moon' appears, though it looks to me like some other light source (a light bulb, a glass plane lit from behind, etc) shot in such a way as to look like the moon. The footage taken of the lights on the horizon during daylight look like they could be real, at one point a fisherman on the beach seems to take notice of them as well. I'd imagine they got some genuinely strange footage of lights in the sky and decided to splice in some shocking footage of the craft close up in the hope of attracting a bit of press broo-ha-ha.

For the "9/11 INSIDE JOB THE EVIDENCE IS OBVIOUS" stuff I believe I saw a poll which was at about 45%. Absolutely insane. I absolutely detest 9/11 "TRUTHERS" because they are so full of shit that it makes a great argument for the various government and secret agencies being clean. There are troubling aspects of the 9/11 incidents but these get totally glossed over with nonsense like "buildings dont fall like that" and "the owner said PULL IT!!!!!".

I remain agnostic about whether anything fishy went on at 9/11, but have the "buildings don't fall like that" arguments been proven to be nonsense? After hearing the often-cited-by-truthers statistic that the World Trade Centers were the first steel buildings in history to collapse due to fire I did some (very) amateur research of my own into it. The most relevant thing I found was something called 'A Historical Survey of Multi-Story Building Collapses Due to Fire' by a company called Hughes Associates, Inc, 'a global company leading the fire protection engineering field with highly trained consultants, engineers, and fire investigators specializing in fire testing, fire modeling, and fire protection design.' The survey includes the World Trade Centers. It seemed to show, assuming it is as definitive as it claims to be (and the company seems very reputable) that while other steel buildings have partially collapsed in the past due to fire, the World Trade Centers were indeed the first to completely collapse.The collapses also look very much like controlled demolitions to me, though I'm sure that's more due to the fact that I am not a demolitions expert than anything else.If in fact it is nonsensical to suspect that there was something peculiar about the way the buildings fell then please illuminate the issue for me.

I HATED the majority of this show live, I thought Jericho/Christian and the main event were good, and Angle/Guerrero was decent, but apart from that the crowd REALLY ruined EVERYTHING else for me.Having watched bits of it again since the live airing it wasn't quite as bad as it first seemed, in fact, it warrants a thumbs up.A very odd show methinx, the first time at a WWE show that 'Smarks' outnumbered casual fans, that's not a good thing.