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Recipe of the day: Nyangy Pizza

2 x 12" Pizza Bases
150g Tomato Puree
50g Garlic Puree
400g Mozzarella Cheese
200g Pepperoni
160g Cubetti di Pancetta

Preheat the oven to 200°C. Mix the tomato and garlic purees and spread over the pizza bases and top with half the cheese. Top with half the pepperoni and pancetta, then the rest of the cheese and finally the remainder of the pepperoni and pancetta. Bake for 15 minutes, then leave to cool for a few more before eating.

I have the coolest toy ever. :> :> :>

I have a remote control Dougal which speaks.

And it came with a Magic Roundabout DVD.

I WIN AT LIFE!!!

So, I've had a look over the casting choices for the movie adaptation of The Da Vinci Code. I can't argue with the acting ability of most of the choices, but the producers seem to have (in most cases) chosen people who completely fail to fit [my mind's eye view of] the characters. What do you think? Obviously, it would be rather pointless to try filling out this poll if you haven't read the book. The actual cast are listed after the character name for your mocking pleasure. Folks who haven't read the book may want to stay clear of the comments in case of spoilers.

Lately I've been mostly listening to the cast recording of Monty Python's Spamalot. How much do I want to see this show? Alas, for some reason it opened on Broadway rather than in the homeland of the Python's. So unfair. I'm sure it will come to the West End eventually, although likely without Tim Curry, David Hyde Pierce et al on the cast.

Not at all jealous of the NYC folks on my friends list. Oh, no.

Everything's funnier with pants.

Using this hypothesis, I conducted an experiment. I took a very funny film, namely 'The Princess Bride', and carefully grafted the word 'pants' into a few select lines.

The proof is in this (somewhat nutty) pudding, so I will leave you with the evidence. I am sure you will agree with me...

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I'm not a big fan of strenuous physical activity, but not everyone in my family has such a high level of sanity. For example, my cousin is undertaking the 100 Cols Challenge, a cycle ride which makes the Tour de France look easy (OK, slight exaggeration, but it is harder than Le Tour). Anyway, he's doing it for charity, in aid of Cancer Research UK. If you can afford to spare a few pounds (or whatever currency your credit card uses), then please pop over to the sponsorship page and give John a bit of encouragement. Thanks!

As a true geek, I've now seen Episode III twice. A third viewing can wait for the DVD. Some thought follow below, many influenced by what I've already read on other folks' journals. But it's not plagiarism, honest!

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A few random tales of shuffling iTunes:

1. Late one evening, a couple of weeks back, iTunes randomly played Paul McCartney's Another Day. Unfortunately, this triggered the part of my mind which goes "Ooh. I've heard that in a movie recently..." This sort of thing is always fatal as I of course want to know what that movie was, and I ain't gonna get to sleep until I've got the answer or managed to forget about the question. Thankfully, IMDb* came to the rescue - a bit of poking turned up the soundtrack search page which quickly gave me the answer: 50 First Dates.
2. I recently watched Charlie's Angels, and remember thinking that I should look up what one of the songs played over the end credits was. This morning, iTunes popped up All the Small Things by Blink 182, and once again I knew it was from a movie I'd seen recently, so I headed over to IMDb, thinking that I could check the Charlie's Angels soundtrack while I was there. Of course, the two questions proved to be each others' answers...
3. Later on, iTunes brought be part of the soundtrack from the final episode of Babylon 5 and I ended up turning off the shuffle feature to hear the final track as well. Those of you familiar with the show will know that the final episode is more of an epilogue than a finale, and that it appears to be deliberately written to reduce fans to gibbering wrecks - and just the music by itself can do that. Powerful stuff. Randomly, it seems that JMS has some B5 stuff up for auction on eBay - including the dalies and two director's cuts of Sleeping in Light. *WANTS SO MUCH*

* If you're not familiar with IMDb, then why not? It's easily one of the most useful sites on the 'net, with pretty much every bit of information about seemingly every movie ever made (and plenty of TV shows and some video games). Many a time and oft has it saved my sleep or sanity.

Well, I've been busy delivering flyers and the like on and off for the last few weeks, and now that election day is here, I can finally take a rest. Which is nice. UK folks, you still have a couple of hours of voting time left, so don't forget to go to the polling booth if you haven't already. Just remember, don't vote Labour, Conservative, UKIP, BNP, Veritas, Natinal Front, etc. If all else fails, spoil your ballot paper, preferably with an amusing slogan. And then look forward to finding out tomorrow just how much Tony Blair's majority has been reduced by (because, let's face it, any result other than a Labout victory is depressingly unlikely).

In other news, I went to see The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy at the weekend. Good fun, and certainly seemed to bear some passing resemblance to the book (which, admittedly, I haven't read in ages), although far from being the most hilarious film ever made - although particularly loved the opening song.