Archive for January, 2010

  • News links and tidbits

    News links and tidbits

    January 28th, 2010 | Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    J. D. Salinger dies – NY Times Mr. Fry went to San Francisco to see the big iPad reveal (can totally picturing him going all fanboyish, with ruddy cheeks and yelling quite loudly – gimme,gimme, gimme Our lovely friend Amy is happy Jack Bauer is back – check out the Carnival of Bauer over at [...]

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  • New Lost promo

    New Lost promo

    January 26th, 2010 | US TV | bertas | No Comments

    All I will say is Squeeeeeeee! And don’t forget to check out Jorge Garcia’s blog. Source: Pop Candy blog

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  • Why you should watch Ugly Betty

    Why you should watch Ugly Betty

    January 25th, 2010 | US TV | bertas | No Comments

    Image: ABC Dear faithful readers, have you been watching Ugly Betty this season? You know you totally should. It has been my “feel good” TV for a while although I will admit they have been threading water in season three. But this season has been quite, quite good. And fun. Much like Betty herself who [...]

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  • The Book Of Eli trailer

    The Book Of Eli trailer

    January 21st, 2010 | Movies, Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    My dear readers, I am not the one for post-apocalyptic movies. I never understood Mad Max fascination. And then that dislike was cemented with the opening sequence of Waterworld – you remember that scene when Kevin Costner pees in a cup and then drinks it? All I will say is ewww… and I don’t get [...]

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  • Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape

    Gordon Ramsay’s Great Escape

    January 20th, 2010 | Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    Dear faithful readers, by now you might (or might not) know that I will watch anything food related. Yup I love to eat and I just can’t help myself but to watch anything cooking related. So the other day I watched the new series with Gordon Ramsay. It’s called Gordon’s Great Escape. He goes to [...]

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  • How Sherlock Holmes knocked my socks off

    How Sherlock Holmes knocked my socks off

    January 18th, 2010 | Movies, Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    Dear faithful readers, on my first ever trip to London at the ripe old age of 17 I was in McDonalds with my friends (I know but for us it was a novelty at the time) and we took out a big map of tube in London. For one of the first stops on our [...]

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  • Some tidbits and links

    Some tidbits and links

    January 14th, 2010 | Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    Image: Stock.xchng For any of you readers still watching House do pop over to Give Me My Remote and show Erik some comment love – even though I don’t watch House anymore his recaps are the best ever and the discussion is always lively. Jennifer Morrison returns to House (good for her but I hope [...]

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  • 7 good alternatives to our favorite British comedy shows

    7 good alternatives to our favorite British comedy shows

    January 12th, 2010 | Uncategorized | bertas | 1 Comment

    Image: Stock.xchng Dear faithful readers, since I know how much all of you love British shows and especially British comedies I thought to come up with a list of alternative shows to some of the all time favorites. Do bare in mind these are not exact replicas (because that is well impossible) but I think [...]

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  • Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday

    Stephen Fry Appreciation Monday

    January 11th, 2010 | Uncategorized | bertas | No Comments

    Dear faithful readers, I do know we haven’t done one of our Stephen Fry Appreciation Mondays in a while. So you probably know that our Mr. Fry has gone into communication shut down until April to work on the second installment of his memoirs (in case you didn’t know you can read about it over [...]

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  • Yay – Iron Man 2 Trailer!

    Yay – Iron Man 2 Trailer!

    January 6th, 2010 | Movies | bertas | No Comments

    Dear faithful readers, I really never was a big fan of the whole superhero thing (well apart from Superman as I have elaborated here) but I never really got into it properly. And before you suggest I should start reading comics well I did and I do. Believe it or not I have actually learned [...]

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