• 11:49 Good morning. Allegedly. #
• 12:55 Is it okay to find People Like Us and The Thick of It hilarious? I know Chris Langham's a nonce, but people still listen to The Who, right? #
• 14:48 Comic store guy was chattier this weekend. Picked up the trade of FELL. Ellis. Templesmith. Easy to catch up on cos it never comes out... #
• 14:59 So, Neil Gaiman's confirmed he's written an episode of Doctor Who. Not for this year tho. bit.ly/bqZ7OM #
• 15:40 I keep getting into trouble because when I'm at my sister's, I say "bloomin'" instead of swearing. My niece has started copying me now. #
• 15:41 Given the alternatives of what I COULD be saying, I think she should be thankful. #
• 16:41 Gah! Bad enough that they just brought out Broken Sword on the iTouch, but now they have Monkey Island too? There goes all my free time. #
• 22:59 I don't mind losing toenails, I don't really use them anyway, but they hurt like a bastard when they go. #

Milovan Djilas: "...before we began to disperse, Stalin turned on a huge automatic record player. He even tried to dance, in the style of his homeland. One could see that he was not without a sense of rhythm...

Then Stalin turned on a record on which the coloratura warbling of a singer was accompanied by the yowling and barking of dogs. He laughed with an exaggerated, immoderate mirth, but on detecting incomprehension and displeasure on my face, he explained, almost as though to excuse himself, "Well, still it's clever, devilishly clever."

Nikita Khrushchev: "I remember once Stalin made me dance the 'Gopak' [a Ukrainian folk dance] before some top Party officials. I had to squat down on my haunches and kick out my heels, which frankly wasn't easy for me. But I did it and I tried to keep a pleasant expression on my face. As I later told Anastas Ivanovich Mikoyan, 'When Stalin says dance, a wise man dances.'"

Franz Liebkind: "Not many people know it, but the Fuhrer was a terrific dancer. ... Let me tell you THIS! And you're hearing this straight from the horse - Hitler was better looking than Churchill. He was a better dresser than Churchill. He had more hair! He told funnier jokes! And he could dance the PANTS off of Churchill!"

• 11:27 It's a little pathetic how pleased I am to see Death's Head back and kicking arse, thanks to @kierongillen. #
• 11:29 The SWORD #4 preview reminded me of this fact. The fact that this book is cancelled demonstrates there's no justice in the comics biz. #
• 11:33 Going to the read-through of the Player's next production tonight. Don't think there's a role for me, but they're looking for a co-producer. #
• 11:34 Not sure if I'm up for that or not. I have wanted to try my hand at directing/producing a play though. Hmm. #
• 12:02 "Logan Lerman, star of the upcoming Percy Jackson movie, is in “early talks” to star in the upcoming Marc Webb Spider-Man reboot." Why not? #
• 13:59 So, who's up for a game of "guess the obscure British comedy actor who I just chatted to outside the office"? #
• 14:39 Office conversation: "Did you see that embarrassing illnesses programme last night? The guy with the penis that was like horseshoe shaped?" #
• 14:40 "I bet he didn't know if he was coming or going." Sometimes I'm so sharp, I cut myself. B) #
• 17:23 And that's me out until some point tomorrow. Radio silence will be observed until then. #

• 00:49 I'm so stressed about this copy of the magazine I'm not sleeping. This is ridiculous. Going to turn to drink. Whisky and hot milk anyway. #
• 08:42 Ugh. Just woke myself up from an honest to god nightmare about problems with the magazine. Got ridiculous now. #
• 12:32 The magazine's in and, so far, everything looks okay. Yay, paranoia. I'll now be convinced a huge mistake is there, but just isn't obvious. #
• 12:44 It occurs to me that since Jean Grey is apparently returning as pre-legal teen the chances of her finally hooking up with Logan just went up #
• 13:03 My obsession with Christina Hendricks continues to grow. Just when I thought I couldn't fancy her more - nerd glasses! bit.ly/9ircdL #
• 14:15 I might have been pleased to see a Nextwave story in the Marvel Valentines special but OH GOD THE ART. bit.ly/c0iH7s #
• 14:21 Defense green paper states "British forces must work more closely with France". Let's start by taking back Normandy. #

• 11:56 I was torn (no pun intended) whether Rip Torn being arrested for being armed and drunk in a bank at night was epic or epically stupid... #
• 11:57 The revelation that he was so drunk he broke into the bank thinking it was his house and /even took his shoes off at the door/ decides it. #
• 12:16 I've always had a fondness for the guy since "Larry Sanders" but that seals it. Rip Torn, drinking legend, I salute you, sir. #
• 12:29 Speaking of which, why the hell is The Larry Sanders Show not available on DVD? #
• 14:21 Less impressed by Rip Torn's drink driving conviction, by the way. Hopefully he did his daring bank robbery on foot. #
• 14:22 Hey, it's Groundhog Day? Crap, there's a shadow. Punxsutawney Phil says 6 more weeks of winter! #
• 14:29 Bah, Facebook and Twitter spoil a perfectly serviceable joke by refusing to allow the Groundhog Day comment to be posted over and over. Fail #
• 14:40 A damn fine post from @Paul_Cornell on the subject of the Equality Bill and "Christian=homophobia": bit.ly/cmXone #godlyforequality #
• 14:49 But on the subject of God, I'm going to hell for laughing at this, aren't I? www.youtube.com/watch?v=O01kDSs-xzA #
• 17:11 KC & the Sunshine Band. Deeply underrated. Yes, seriously. #
• 17:16 Yes, that is my level folks. If you've come to me looking for intellectualism or culture, I think you're going to be disappointed. #
• 17:36 "Avatar will change EVERYTHING." No. Not every movie has that budget and has talented writers and actors instead. That shouldn't change. #
• 18:21 I don't think it's appropriate to describe Christina Hendricks' breasts as "puppies", guys. More like bloody Great Danes. Emphasis on great. #
• 22:20 Five Finger Death Punch ARE a spoof band, right? Surely? #
• 23:41 Magazine comes in from the printers tomorrow. I've never been so paranoid/nervous about mistakes in it as I am this time. No clue why. #
• 23:42 Also: the loud and continuous explosions are getting quite annoying now. I wish they'd cut it out. #

• 10:44 Four and a half hours sleep after a 16 hour shift is not conducive to anything but psychosis. #
• 18:45 Got around to watching Tropic Thunder. As a biting satire it lacked teeth. Less biting, more gumming. With Tom Cruise dancing in a fat suit. #
• 18:47 Although it did deliver something for the slashers with Downey Jr and Tobey Maguire gaying it up. (Again.) #

• 00:06 Yay, midnight! I wonder what time I'm going to be getting home tonight? (15 hours and counting...) #
• 00:07 This is why I get pissed off when I get hauled over the coals for making mistakes. Everyone else left hours ago, yet I'm still working... #
• 00:10 I get tired... mistakes happen. But human error is "not an excuse". Seriously, no one died. (Apart from that one time.) #
• 00:13 I just have to hope whatever mistake I inevitably make isn't an expensive one. (Lots of full pages this month. Gonna be SO paranoid.) #
• 00:15 Checking things over and over, but I'll STILL be convinced I've messed up somewhere. Usually I convince myself it's on a big advert. #
• 00:16 That'll be it for my weekend. Once I get the idea in my head I've screwed up one advert (even if I know I haven't) I start climbing walls. #
• 00:17 This has been your random insight onto my state of mind on deadlines. Come again. Try the chicken. #
• 00:20 And another thing: If you're going to go help yourself to my bread, WRAP IT UP AGAIN AND PUT THE LID BACK ON THE BREADBOX. Thank you. #

• 12:17 For all my boss' criticism of others "bringing the office down", I think his "I can't see us being here in six months time" speech tops all. #
• 15:05 ebay's removed a listing for a Dad's Army board game for inciting racial hatred. It's just the sort of thing that the NAZIS would have done. #
• 20:35 I had a budgie but it died. I like pie. #
• 20:39 just cos I aint never ad, no, nothing worth having, never ever, never ever #
• 20:42 also... it takes much longer to get up norf... the slow way #
• 22:51 He played his musical saw in the streets of San Diego. ♫ blip.fm/~jy47v #

• 06:13 So much for getting an early night. Early night means waking up at six AM apparently. #
• 14:14 I probably have enough problems this week without my own body stabbing me in the back, thanks very much. #
• 18:40 You know, it's a real pain in the arse when they decide to cut the page count of our mag by 20% when the pages we lose are ones ALREADY SET. #
• 21:09 That's the first 12 hour shift of the week. And now home and hopefully some kind of food. #
• 21:46 Not impressed by the ipad. It just seems faintly ridiculous, like an itouch in clown shoes. #

• 09:41 I think I'm already hooked on Mad Men. Wound up watching two episodes last night. Damn you @schmevil! #
• 12:40 This constant smell of burning is making me nervous. #
• 13:48 To make you understand the level of my unhappiness, I'm likely to use an awful lot of, what we would call, violent sexual imagery. #
• 14:35 If I never see another Chick Tract ever again, it'll be too soon. Can we have posts sharing the love, not the hate, please? #
• 14:46 I was wracking my brain to work out where I knew Golden Globes/BAFTA nominated actress Carey Mulligan from. Suddenly clicked - Sally Sparrow #
• 14:59 Well.... crock. "The second season of Wolverine and the X-Men is still in development and production has not started yet." #
• 15:30 Time to sing the praises of "WhatTheFont!" - Probably the most useful website I've encountered. new.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/ #
• 15:56 "Those aren't assholes. It's pronounced 'azaleas'." #
• 18:27 I just want to get home and get some hot meat inside me. #
• 23:00 Can't resist buying myself a T-shirt for The Slaughtered Lamb. (Bonus points if you get the reference.) But in black or "army green"? #

• 09:47 RIP Jean Simmons, star of The Big Country, Spartacus, The Happy Ending, Great Expectations, Hamlet and many more. A great actress. #
• 10:54 That's twice in a week now. Those pushing the climate change agenda are probably not doing themselves any favours: bit.ly/8rRh0d #
• 12:24 I wish Gary Oldman and Tim Roth would work together again. They had such brilliant chemistry in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead. #
• 12:49 Winter’s Bone sounds like a great movie. Which probably means I'll never get to see it. #
• 14:02 "Today, you have laid your first big fat egg of solid fuck." #
• 14:39 And your favorite jersey is covered in lint. ♫ blip.fm/~jqghy #
• 14:50 I organised a threesome last night. There were a couple of no-shows, but I still had a good time. #
• 14:59 In the paper today: 60% of students would star in a porn film to help pay off their debts. That'll be the male students then? #
• 17:34 The French have decided that Calais is English, so they can get money from the Olympics in 2012. Triathlon now blockaded by truck drivers. #
• 22:13 Just watched the first episode of Mad Men. Great stuff. Just my morally ambiguous cup of tea. #

• 14:29 David Tennant's off John Landis' Burke and Hare, replaced by Andy Serkis, apparently. Also Simon Pegg & Tom Wilkinson. Nice cast, at least. #
• 14:32 Only time will tell if Landis can claw his way back to form after a 20 year doldrums. #
• 14:34 And speaking of Andy Serkis, I hope the Ian Dury biopic includes this one, complete with Busby Berkeley style sequence: bit.ly/8ENgs0 #
• 16:41 "Life has become like that great Grimpen Mire with green patches everywhere into which one may sink and with no guide to point the track." #
• 19:01 I shouldn't be in work at seven on a Saturday night, should I? I'm only still here because I'm waaaaay too easily distracted. #

• 10:54 Hmm. How come I hadn't heard of www.girlsdrawingirls.com before now, either? Why are you keeping all this cool stuff from me? #
• 11:08 I've seriously fucked up. #
• 14:05 I have a lot of time for George Clooney & stuff like him organizing this telethon for Haiti and setting the bar by donating $1m explains why #
• 14:14 Banning egomaniac Kanye West from the event to stop him stealing the spotlight from the cause itself... that's another reason. #
• 16:38 Buying bread from a man in Brussels, he was six foot four and full of muscles. #
• 16:38 I said, "Do you speak my language?" He just smiled and gave me a vegemite sandwich. #
• 16:38 They don't write them like that any more. Thank the lord. #
• 16:45 That's better. A bit of Girlshapedlovedrug. Far more sensible. #
• 16:53 "Soldier rejected from British Army wins top French Foreign Legion award for bravery" Well what did they expect? A French person winning it? #
• 16:58 I'm going to get more complaints about that one, aren't I? #

• 09:35 This 80s revival's not going away any time soon, is it? That's 2 decades now with no identity of their own. Are we going for a third? #
• 10:31 I've got a friend who's fallen in love with two school bags. He's bisatchel. #
• 10:32 So I was getting into my car, and this bloke says to me "Can you give me a lift?" I said "Sure, you look great, the world's your oyster!' #
• 10:33 I phoned the local builders today. I said to them 'Can I have a skip outside my house?' He said, 'I'm not stopping you.' #
• 10:35 Police arrested two kids yesterday. 1 was drinking battery acid, the other was eating fireworks. They charged one and let the other one off. #
• 10:35 And I'm not going to stop telling Tommy Cooper jokes until someone hits me. #
• 10:37 Somebody actually complimented me on my driving today. They left a little note on the windscreen. It said, "Parking Fine". So that was nice. #
• 10:39 My dog was barking at everyone the other day. Still, what can you expect from a cross breed? #
• 16:13 Crikey, are people still banging on about the rescheduling of some chat show? Really America, you're fickle AND lack a sense of perspective. #
• 16:17 I think I'm going to be disappointed when I see The Road. It'll never live up to the Tenacious D song it's based on. #
• 23:14 Why did no one tell me about OK Go before? Friends, you've failed me. #
• 23:48 No one's going to be able to get heated when there's that much pink around, surely? I find it distracting. Maybe we need some kittens too. #

Since apparently 50 million people have watched their previous video on Youtube, I guess most people are familiar with OK Go. Not me though, so this is a pleasant surprise. One shot videos are always full of love, but this jumps to the next level.

OK Go - This Too Shall Pass from OK Go on Vimeo.

• 10:23 Oh, America. You're so fickle. #
• 10:28 The Stig: Some say that his heart is in upside down and that he's so important he shows up on Google Maps Street View: bit.ly/6YlWKD #
• 15:11 Today is the day the new issue of the magazine arrives. It's also the day I hide and refuse to look at it. I know I'll spot something wrong. #
• 15:12 I do this every time. Usually I pick up a copy a couple of weeks after it's been out and avoid it in the meantime. I hate looking at my work #
• 15:43 Someone just asked me if I had a date for Valentines day. I told them it was the 14th of February, the same as every year. #