EXCUSES AND HALF TRUTHS

Vintage ads
from a simpler, stranger time…

thanks, Attu.

The Television Has Disintegrated. All That’s Left Is the Viewer. – New York Times

Ok, so I’ve done the research, agonised over the screen size, vacillated, back-tracked, rethought, agonised some more and generally wallowed in the sweet torture of which HD telly I should spunk the best part of a grand on. Verlyn Klinkenborg (crazy name, crazy guy/girl/whatever) writing in the NY Times, absolutely nails the process. Oh, this is what I think we’ve settled on.
For the record, TLC’s mum gets our old widescreen box. We are nothing if not green.

Zac Pelaccio – an American Heston Blumenthal?

Probably not, mostly due to the ingredient bloat. This is not simple stuff. That being said, the pickled watermelon and pork belly salad featured here does sound bizarrely tasty.
No, really, it does.

I’ve wanted an airline to offer this for years. As someone who doesn’t sleep well on planes, and has to take half of WH Smiths on board to keep oneself amused, this would save money and backache both!
(via SoreEyes)

The FIRST cool Captain Jack
thanks to Darren at LMG for this one.

One of the more unexpected side-effects of the new flight security measures…

Tried these bad boys out with some simply grilled chicken. Fantastic. I’m after any way to use up the burgeoning glut of courgettes coming out of the garden at the mo, and this way of cooking them could quickly become a favourite. Not too greasy, and really good with some plain yoghurt on the side.
Oh, any idea why they’re called zucchini in the States?

I appear to be on a 2000AD obsessional!
It’s the “Gaze into the fist of Dredd t-shirt for me, then!

» Here
is a post at the relatively new Forbidden Planet blog, that sums up a lot of my feelings about the best British comic of all time. Good blog in general, with a lot of juicy links to merchandising opportunities.

This is the closest I’ve come to understanding Donnie Darko.