Scoville Units Unite » Magazines http://agraham.org/blog reviews, rants and random chilli ratings Tue, 13 Dec 2011 19:39:21 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= Private Eye – ooh err missus http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/25/private-eye-ooh-err-missus/ http://agraham.org/blog/2010/01/25/private-eye-ooh-err-missus/#comments Mon, 25 Jan 2010 17:38:28 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=587 This fortnights edition of Private Eye is quite good.

The two stand-outs for me though were the ingenuously fuelled letter about classical music with the quote the capital is positively stiff with magnificent organs.

The second is the large column with outrage that a comedian has been dumped from a festival, the comedian in question being Paul Merton, he who co-stars with Eye editor Ian Hislop on Have I Got News For You. This got as much disclosure as they look for when the Sun gives 5 star ratings to Fox films though which made me chuckle.

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Rumoured Space Hulk contents

this is obviously exciting as if it is successful it means Games Workshop might look into re-releasing Hero Quest/Advanced Hero Quest/Warhammer Quest.

Speaking of Hero Quest, found a new free gaming magazine with a short article about it here – Irregular Magazine. No new information for me but good to see other people talking about it.

]]> http://agraham.org/blog/2009/07/27/nerding-out/feed/ 0 A Winner is Me! http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/08/a-winner-is-me/ http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/08/a-winner-is-me/#comments Thu, 08 Jan 2009 18:21:35 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=130 At the start of December I entered a competition on the SciFiNow blog

It lists loads of prizes:

  • VIP tickets to an exclusive Hellboy party
  • Hellboy scarf
  • Hellboy beanie
  • the movie on DVD
  • Cygnett MP3 player accessories pack

I got an e-mail saying I had won a prize and thought woo, hope it’s the DVD, and have been holding off buying it ever since.

Well, I got a package through the mail today, in it was:

  • Hellboy scarf
  • Hellboy beanie with horn stumps
  • the 2 disc special edition of the movie on DVD £12.98
  • earphones £14.98 on Amazon
  • charging battery for iPhone/iPod £12.96?
  • iPod nano silicon case ~£14
  • mini rechargable speaker £20.96
  • mini fm transmitter for iPod/iPhone £37.99
  • larger rechargable speaker for iPhone/iPod £41.99
  • speaker dock/alarm clock/radio for iPod £67.79

Holy shit!, that’s over £200 worth of iPod accessories.

The hat/scarf and DVD are mine. Genna was drooling over the rest of the kit seeing as she has an iPod and I don’t

]]> http://agraham.org/blog/2009/01/08/a-winner-is-me/feed/ 0 New magazine day! http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/new-magazine-day/ http://agraham.org/blog/2008/11/27/new-magazine-day/#comments Thu, 27 Nov 2008 21:21:38 +0000 Alan G http://agraham.org/blog/?p=75 It’s that time of the month again: SciFi Now Thursday!

I started getting this about issue 6 (now 22) and it’s really good. The movie reviews are focused on SciFi/Fantasy/Horror/World Cinema type stuff so really covers most of my main movie interests. So far I haven’t noticed any signs of the reviews being biased by ads, they’ve been quite accurate for the most part. Quite the opposite of bought by adverts actually, they did a huge exclusive preview spread drooling over 30 Days of Night and then slated it in the review the next issue.

Today’s other new release is Viz. After really going down hill for about 8 months the last 4 or 5 issues have been superb. Last issues Profanisaurus was excellent.

The other release of this week which I won’t actually get for another fortnight is Buffy Season 8: Issue 19. The concluding part of the Fray arc of the Buffy comics looks to be good and after being hit by the curse of Fray and delayed so long it better bloody be.

I had never been a big comic fan (He-Man when I was young excluded) but Buffy Season 8 really sparked my interest. I have been getting Buffy, Angel, Spike, Serenity and a few other random TV related comics randomly. I obviously picked up the Watchmen and from one of the Angel staff got Everybody’s Dead which is a really silly/cool Zombie short series. I got Conan for a while then dropped but am enjoying Solomon Kane. Other random pick-ups have been X-Files and Lost Boys, I noticed there is an Underworld series coming out so I may pick that up to see what it’s like.

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