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...in something that's a mish-mash of audio-novel, radio-play and podcast. Who'd have thought?

It's a London (UK) science fiction-comedy production called A Brief History of Time Travel. If you're at all interested, you should probably head over to their website HERE to see what's going on and to listen to the trailer (which is pretty funny). There's quite a few names involved who will be recognizable to some from British TV - but the most famous one has to be Robert Llewellyn, the legendary Kryten from Red Dwarf, himself - as narrator.

I'm currently slotted for an undetermined guest role in one episode - kinda like an extra in one of those crowd scenes, but with real lines and a credit in the cast at the end. I think.

It's going to be my first ever role, and recording will begin in May, the aim being to have the episodes available to buy and listen to around August. There's a book available, and people buying the episodes will be able to get a version which includes "DVD extras" at some point. I might even be part of that feature (though probably more in bloopers than in anything else more interesting, but you never know).

Wish me luck, and if you like the idea of playing "spot the weird guy I know" - buy the show!

The above to you and any family you have.

As with last year, I am going to list this year's haul from under the tree... or in my case, handed to me in an envelope or the original shopping bag...

1x IOU written on HSBC Bank Headed Counter Cash Paperwork Slip reading: "IOU - One (1) delivery package containing one (1) Non-Denominational Winter Holiday Gift from an as yet unnamed online retailer, to be received no later than 29/01/2013 (quoting 1 to 6 weeks delivery dispatched on 20/12/2012)" (from fraternal unit)

1x €50 Note and Christmas Card in an envelope (from step-grandma) - received 05/12/2012 *note - not legal tender in the UK, as the UK is not and never will be part of the European Monetary Union and is doing what it can to pull out of the European Union...

1x (substantial yet not to be revealed £GBP amount) direct bank transfer to current account, in lieu of gift cards, cash and card or present due to inability to figure me out (from maternal unit)

1x copy of Virtue's Last Reward for 3DS (from step-paternal unit) - received 05/12/2012 *note - this was one of those cases where I was at the checkout with it and he offered to pay it for me instead, then and there, calling it "your Christmas present, three weeks early".

1x collected series DVD box of "The World God Only Knows" Season One. An actual gift. An ACTUAL WRAPPED GIFT.(from kid sis, an impoverished student)

She may not have given me the most expensive thing, she may not have given me the most extravagant thing or exciting thing, either - but she gave me something I'm going to enjoy (she knows I loved the show and like to rewatch anime when it gets dubbed), she gave it to me on Christmas Day and she gave it to me wrapped with a card and everything. I think this means my kid sister officially wins at Christmas - don't you? That said, special mention should go to my very sweet and lovely step-grandma. €50 is a lot of money for a pensioner - but I haven't the heart to tell her that I can't spend it, and that with the Euro in pretty bad shape, not to mention bank charges and commission when I change money, her present will lose over a quarter of its value if I try and convert it...

And that's it!

Hope you guys got good hauls this year!

People liked the Hulk in Marvel's The Avengers. They think he stole the show. Maybe I can get the fans to like me if I do my best Bruce Banner Impersonation?


Seeing as I saved you and a bus full of kids, can I take you to the homecoming dance, Lana? And please don't tell my Dad about the bus...


Mysterious and Powerful Kandorian Artefact tied to Clark's Kryptonian heritage and the House of El... or a Novelty Pencil Eraser?


My 3rd Grade Science Experiment: Why it's sometimes okay to let a bus full of children die according to my Dad.


Female Audience: Clark Kent shirtless and on fire... CLARK. KENT. SHIRTLESS. AND. ON. FIRE! *SWOON*
Male Audience: Getting flashbacks to Arnold Schwarzenegger walking through the flames in the Terminator Movies...


BE AMAZED! I'm going to use my psychokinetic powers that I only ever showed in Superman 2 to swirl an ounce of snow around my fist!


"Give him to me, Lara. I will send him to a planet twenty seven light years away from us, with only technologically backward savages around him, with no one to protect or nurture him and leave him to be someone else's problem long after the Planet blows up and we are long dead - even with my many enemies seeking vengeance upon me through him; all of them snapping at his heels. It will be a painful, lonely existence of servitude and guardianship over inferior beings while constantly battling forces of evil. It's the best life we could possibly give him..."
"As long as he doesn't get raised by someone who would have a transport shuttle full of younglings perish for the want of a kind act..."


Why are you kneeling before Michael Shannon? YOU SHOULD KNEEL BEFORE Terrence StampZOD, CURSED SON OF JOR-EL!


Lara Lor-Van watching Kal-El's ship escape Doom and Destruction, or an over produced J-Pop Music Video Warner Brothers lifted to save money on the movie?


MorpheusPerry White doing Gangam Style while Metropolis collapses around him...
♪Heeeeeeeyyyyyyyyyy scared lady~~!♫


I'm sorry there, officers... I didn't know the Pentagon and White House were no-fly zones...
... and can someone please tell me where I left my red pants? Covering my crotch with my hands in cuffs is tricky and this is a family movie!


This is the look on Lois Lane's face when she realizes Superman's going to bang her, then beat Zod, then fly off to space leaving her to deal with pregnancy on her own, then come back after 6 years without so much as a phone call, and then skulk around in the background of her life with her new husband like some superpowered stalker...
...what do you mean Superman Returns isn't canon? What do you mean this is a REBOOT?


The over-designed S-Shield, so that we know it's an alien glyph and that it isn't just an S for Superman! HONEST!

...when it's not used to buy Marvel Entertainment.

...the REAL reason why DC Comics UNmarried Lois and Clark: