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The Androids - Do it with Madonna

Rental Car Rally sounds like fun. And you’re not racing your own car! Sure this must breaks the user agreement.

The Marquee De Sideshow is the sideshow tent at The Spiegel Garden at the Edinburgh Fringe, with Paul Zenon at the helm. Cramming in 4 fifteen minute shows an hour are Paul Zenon, Captain Frodo, The Space Cowboy, Koko Lush and friends, swapping about with three performers per show. It seems that you never know quite what you’re going to get! The tiny tent brings you intimately close to the action and I was lucky enough to be in the front row (which consisted of 4 seats out of the 25 in the tent) and so got to be a part of Paul Zennon’s magic show. The magic was “simple” but fun and as soon as Mr. Zennon was done the show moved on to Captain Frodo (putting rubber bands over his face in a pretty grotesque way) and then on to Koko Lush (who squeezed herself through some hoops and then - the pièce de résistance - folded herself into a perspex box). The “rogues’ gallery of freaks, geeks and ne’er-do-wells” was indeed “a shot of absinthe compared to the yard of ale of most Fringe shows” and was a really good laugh for £3. As you’d expect from a venue boasting nipple tassels as merchandise!

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Let’s face the facts here… I’m probably not going to have to wait too long before I can get myself one of these bad boys in real life. I’m betting on 9 years…

I’ve just read Asimov’s 30 Laws of Robotics from Something Awful and I can’t believe that this hasn’t been done before (and if it has, I can’t believe that I haven’t seen it!). Asimov’s Laws of Robotics expanded to include a few more personal heuristics that robots should try to follow as well as a few put there as personal safety nets. A robot seems to make a pretty good scapegoat for all those childish pranks! I think that I would have to with Something Awful - I would definitely get my robot to answer the phone and the door during the night. The thought of having to decide who to listen to out of two humans using depth of voice only is fantastic - I think that that would solve many arguments!

The trailer for the 22nd Bond Quantum of Solace is really good. Even though I don’t really like Daniel Craig’s version of Bond anywhere near as much as Pierce Brosnan’s I think that the Casino Royale held together so much better than Die Another Day and QOS looks to be a pretty good action movie. Woo.

I saw this picture in Esquire yesterday: Jason Lee astride his Falcon motorbike. Now I already think that Jason Lee is a bit of a legend (not just because of “My Name’s Earl” but also because of his Kevin Smith films) but this is a bike that definitely makes the man.

Falcon Motorcycles are an award winning custom motorcycle manufacturer specialising in recycling post war British motorcycles (which are the still some of the coolest bikes of all time) and the bikes that they create are works of art - check out the attention to detail in this rear light!

PS - does anyone else thing that Jason Lee looks a lot like Dave Grohl?

What an grand weekend I’ve had; drinks in Covent Garden, the Ian Fleming exhibition at the Imperial War Museum, a visit to the Tate and Aeneaus Faversham Forever… and that was just Saturday! I was pretty excited to discover that The Penny Dreadfuls were previewing their Fringe show at the Greenwich theatre the same weekend I was going to be in London. The show lived up to expectations with a good mix of Victoriana, steampunk, intelligence, smut and slapstick (and you should book early because they made it onto the Scotsman’s list of top shows to see). Judging from the audience it appears that they now have groupies!
If you didn’t catch them the last time that they were on the gramophone have no fear… they are about to record a second series of their BBC radio show so keep an ear open for them.
Good luck for the Fringe guys - the Pleasance indeed!

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