The 11th Doctor

At 26 years old, Matt Smith has found himself the youngest actor ever to be cast as the Doctor. When auditioning for the role, Smith had a certain “Doctor-ness about him” that made the relatively unknown actor the production team’s first choice to play the eleventh Doctor.

Of course, internet nerds over the age of thirty will be enraged by the choice. Me, I say let’s just see the lad perform the part before we cast any aspersions.

More from the BBC website here.

Happy New Year

My New Year’s resolution for 2009 - update the World of Me more than I do now!

Have a happy New Year my jolly readers! May the year 2009 bring you much happiness, prosperity, cake and any other of those little things that make you happy!

No, look this way!

Every once in a while the coolest generation of the Skull family meet up for a few beers and a curry. Due to the fact that I have a rather big family (my grandparents contribution to the war effort maybe) I never get to catch up with many of my four million cousins; these curry gatherings tend to be the only time I find out family gossip and, as the youngest of this generation, the only time I get to receive all the abuse and gyp I so rightly deserve!

So here is a selection of photos taken throughout the evening. One note: as we left the Indian restaurant one of the staff shouted at me, “Elvis, give us a song”. Bastard!
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OBEY

John Carpenter’s 1988 film They Live was part sci-fi, part black comedy. Pro wrestler Rowdy Roddy Piper played a down-on-his-luck construction worker who discovered a pair of special sunglasses which allowed him to see the world as it really is - a world run by aliens that are in charge of a massive campaign to keep humans subdued.

Famous for a gruelling five-and-a-half minute fight scene and the immortal line, “I have come here to chew bubblegum and kick ass… and I’m all out of bubblegum”, They Live was a commercial failure, only managing to reach a cult following once it was released on video. So how disheartened I am to learn that a remake is in the pipeline.

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I have uploaded some photographs of Mr. Richard Bratley’s stag weekend in Dublin.

Possibly the best stag night in the world

I’ll let the pictures do the talking…

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