Yes, your humble scribe was late into work today, late and cold after waiting 20 minutes at the bus stop for a 24 that - gasp in shocked and horrified surprise! - didn't turn up. "May be Saturday service" had been the advice on a poster about the services this week, and the 24 - doesn't run on Saturdays. Well of course not! Why would passengers possibly want to travel into Manchester on a Saturday, of all days, when they could be mowing the lawn or priming their minefields?
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| Soup-bowl helmets and jam-tin bombs |
Bah! If First Bus had been put in charge of running the British Empire, we'd have been over-run by the armed forces of Lichtenstein within weeks. No, strike that, the armed forces of Andorra*.
Right, I don't wish to bore with more of First's bumbletuck antics, so let us move swiftly along to -
The Reverend Leighton-Green
As you know, BOOJUM! normally eschews Politics, Religion and Current Affairs, for not only is the night dark and full of terror, so is modern life. Let us ignore those guidelines for once and address old Leighton. Are those toxic twods from ISIS paying attention? I hope so, they might learn something. Art?
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| Here is Sam. |
Right, let us jump back 100 years. Old Sam, as a clergyman, could have comfortably sat out the First Unpleasantness safe and sound, as the clergy were not conscripted. He, however, chose to enlist and served on the Western Front. Not because he had to, but because he thought it the right thing to do. He was awarded the MC, twice, because he put himself in harms way, being gassed and seriously injured by shrapnel. Remember, also, as a non-combatant the most he could do in retaliation was swear loudly. Though as a clergyman he'd probably have been pretty poor at that.
Is there a point to this? Well, yes: evidence of a moral compass, and another proof that Hom. Sap. can be pretty awesome when they try.
BOOJUM! Reviews FILMS!
If you are new here then please be advised that we have two rules for reviewing films:
1) Go solely by the title
2) Generalise wildly
Much hilarity ensues. Well, I think it's hilarious. Your mileage may vary but hey, I'm not charging you anything to read this, am I?
| How To Strangle the Mark Kermode way! |
"Collateral Beauty": this is the film I mentioned Russ mentioning last week, carefully avoiding the name so I could come back and recycle it**. Not sure what the title is supposed to imply except they're trying too hard. Is it a sequel to "Collateral"? A modern re-telling (horrid South Canadian phrase!) of "Beauty and the Beast"? Who knows, certainly not your modest artisan, who also doesn't care. Next!
| Beauty and the Beastie Boys. Close enough |
"Live By Night": Now this looks interesting. Gun battles and car crashes, yes please, more of this (especially if you can throw in a few explosions) and less of that Collateral guff. It's about Prohibition-era gangsters, for those of you thirsting desperately for some twinkly emo-pixy vampires. You had your dose of Dracula the other day.
| Or perhaps it's "Live" in the sense of a real-time broadcast? |
"Passengers": The tagline for this reads "There's a reason they woke up", and as a passenger on First (when or if they turn up) I can reveal that the reason is called An Alarm Clock, a hateful little device that Conrad encounters on a regular basis.
Incidentally, the spaceship these people are passengers upon seems to be run by First, too, as all it does is sit there and explode.
There you go. The plural.
More Of The Christmas Haul
I'm eking out the photos here as that means I can up the word count, heheh! More to the point, these are small posts that round out the word count when all it needs is a hundred words or so. I don't want to alienate folks with a gigantic post that requires the commitment of several hours and a dictionary. Well, several hours. Art?
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| Very true - at present |
Lovingly inscribed by Jayne, this is apparently from that obscure television programme "A Girl And Her Flying Flamethrowers" or some such.
As captioned, this is true today but only until Sunday the 1st of January 2017.
No! I don't turn into a pumpkin. I give up the demon drink for the month of January. I will continue to drink, except it'll be copious quantities of tea and lemonade.
* Conrad unsure if they actually have an army, but the point is still moot.
** I'm so green.
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