When Humans Ruled The Earth...

When Humans Ruled the Earth from Stephen Ong on Vimeo.

One hundred years, I tell you,
then it's "good night, Vienna!"

Primeval - Your Five-Step Route To Its Return...

Set your chronometers to January 1, 2011, the criminally underrated (even by me initially) Primeval is coming home...







Which also means more Hannah Spearritt on our TV... and that has to be a good thing!

Music Of 2010 - Louder Than God's Revolver...

Sing - My Chemical Romance

I Am... Bat-Monkey!

It's not just the humans that got Christmas presents in our household.

Rachel's parents' got Mon-Key Wan Kenobi a Batman outfit, so that by day he is a mild-mannered jedi knight and when darkness falls he dons his cape and cowl and takes to the rooftops as the crime-fighting Bat-Monkey!

The only problem is the eye-holes on the cowl are too wide apart for Mon-Key to see out of...

Unveiling Stan's New Superteam...

Following the recent announcement of the superheroic team-up between Stan Lee and the National Hockey League (NHL), to create a legion of team-specific superheroes, a Facebook Application has been released to enable fans to determine the order in which each team’s Guardian will be unveiled.

Voting at www.guardianproject30.com will continue throughout January, with fans determining which team will win each match-up. The winners will be revealed daily, beginning with a face-off between the “Penguin” vs. the “Capital” to celebrate the 2011 Bridgestone NHL Winter Classic match-up on Saturday (January 1).

Every day, for the first 30 days in January, the winning Guardians will be revealed at 8pm ET with an exclusive image designed by legendary comic book artist Neal Adams along with their bio.

The last winner will be unveiled on Sunday, January 30, when all thirty Guardians will come to life during a special presentation within the 2011 NHL All-Star Game presented by Discover in Raleigh, N.C. (4 p.m. ET live broadcast on VERSUS in the US and on CBC and RDS in Canada).

Christmas Gets Everywhere...

... at Rachel's parents' house! If you thought that the bedclothes might have been an amusing 'one-off', here's some picture from Rachel of other highlights from this year's interior decorations.

Santa toilet paper - you probably can't see the expression on his face, but it changes with across each sheet!

The giant cracker was a new innovation this year - and so Rachel and I had to pull it!

Snowman icecubes, of course!

Even in the garden (and in spite of the snow, although it curtailed the lighting), Christmas makes its mark.

Even in the small, downstairs' toilet there's no escaping Santa!

A sneak peak at next year's new decorations - seasonal seat covers from the post-Christmas sales!

And The Greatest Gift This Year Was...

... sleep!

Rachel and I have returned from her parents' after our extended, traditional stay for the holidays, where - as usual - we were pampered rotten and spent most of the time either eating or sleeping.

Those who follow me on Twitter and Facebook will probably have picked up on the fact that for the last three or four months I haven't had a decent night's sleep.

But this Christmas holiday - perhaps due to the seasonal bedclothes Rachel's mum had on the bed we were staying in (see above) - I was sleeping, on average, about 12 - 15 hours a day!

And this was without resorting to my prescription Temazepam.

Usually this wonderful new sleep pattern took the form of rising about 1pm, then having an afternoon nap, then heading back to bed about 11pm.

Let's hope the quality sleep remains now and my cycle of insomnia nights has been broken. That would certainly be the best gift - probably for Rachel as well - Santa could have given me this year.

Wonder Woman Wednesday!

Sundry lovelies (actresses, models and miscellaneous cosplayers) dressed as DC Comic's Amazon Princess (either 'for real' or through the magic of PhotoShop!)

HeroPress Picture Parade (December)

An 'end-of-year' clear-out...