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Creased or Folded? hecklerspray Tells You the Way it is

by Chris Laverty on July 16, 2010 1 Comment

This week’s hot and cold.

Folded:

  • Giant Gummi (could this be the bestest birthday ‘cake’ ever?)
  • Michael Crichton books in summer (nothing better than gene splicing a sexual harassment suit with some dinosaurs for a rollicking July read)
  • Semi-funny Star Wars vid filmed on a subway (great costumes)
  • Portas brings the light entertainment (and it was good)
  • Inception (it’s not easy, but the best things never are. Right?)

Creased:

  • World Cup blues (not because it’s over, but because it was underpants)
  • Harvey Pekar gone (though there’s a fair chance you won’t have the faintest idea who he was)
  • Ice suit (bit warm a few days ago, wasn’t it? Bet you wish you’d had this stupid invention to keep you cool, eh?)
  • New Blu-ray Predator is too shiny for its own good (so don’t buy it. Let’s stop this before it gets out of hand)
  • Remember when you thought hair gel was the coolest stuff in the world? (yeah, well it wasn’t)

Michael Crichton: An Appreciation

by Stuart Heritage on November 6, 2008 2 Comments


Sad news – author Michael Crichton has died after a battle with cancer, it has been announced. He was 66.

While some will say that Michael Crichton’s legacy will be Jurassic Park, the best-selling novel that was turned into movie phenomenon; or ER, the TV series he created from his own experiences as a doctor; or even Westworld, the movie he directed that was exactly the same as Jurassic Park except with a bald-headed robot cowboy instead of dinosaurs, they are respectfully wrong.

For us, Michael Crichton will be remembered for one thing and one thing only – this video. It’s the climax to the movie adaptation of his novel Congo. Evil gorillas have never been brutally dismembered by a laser gun inside a volcano so gracefully. Michael Crichton, you will be missed.