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There is a reason why this is sad - Frank Kelly, who played Father Jack Hackett so brilliantly in 'Father Ted', died on 28-02-16, eighteen years to the day that Dermot Morgan, who played Ted, died, way too early at 45. At Frank Kelly's funeral, his son said that he liked the idea of Father Jack getting to the Pearly Gates, and telling Saint Peter to "Feck off".

Apparently, they would like to make a movie... I'd pay to see it.

Doctor Strange: possibly one of Marvel's weirdest superheroes, and one of my favourites. I am looking forward to this movie with great anticipation. If B.C. is the star, then it has got to be great.

The teaser trailer brought me out in goosebumps. It's awesome.

Possibly one of the weirdest, kinkiest TV shows ever made. And it's brilliant.

No 'X marks our hotel room' for this family, but 'X marks where we got Thorium poisoning from...'

I have heard that atomic bomb tests in the desert in the 1940's and 1950's were an unofficial tourist 'treat' if one were staying in Las Vegas. Anyone know how true this is?

Factory Records. A legendary British label, home of Joy Division, New Order, A Certain Ratio, The Durutti Column, and The Happy Mondays, amongst others. A company run by great people, with great ideas, but sadly, no business acumen whatsoever. Their packaging was top-notch, every time, beautiful to the point that writing the band's name and the song title on it would ruin it. So they quite often didn't. One of their bands, The Stockholm Monsters, released a single which came in nine, let me repeat, nine different sleeves, despite hardly selling anything previously. The album, 'The Return Of The Durutti Column' originally came in a sandpaper sleeve so that it would damage other records it was kept with - and the sand would also find it's way on to your new album... Factory Records. Don't bother looking for them; they're not there any more...

The man is a genius. He can write script so precisely, you would think that it was printed. He started out designing record sleeves (Desmond Dekker, Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode, Level 42, Throbbing Gristle, 23 Skidoo, amongst others), and then on to designing typefaces (fonts). This is a fascinating book, that I've had for years.