Eccentric Flower talk:201009/Wrong On the Internet

Jette:

For Your Eyes Only?

(Sorry, but when you say something makes sense only to yourself, but includes the vaguely familiar name of an actor, I have to Google. Just a little. Because I am Supernosy.)

I always liked that little bit about W.H. Smith's and especially the "did they." It was a pleasure to go to London in pre-Internet days and find out that there really was a W.H. Smith's. They've got lots of books there.

-- 20:49, 8 September 2010 (BST)

Columbina:

It's a bookshop!

Yes, so, I have been watching a lot of "Avengers" episodes of an evening, because "Avengers" + gin is my favorite way to unwind, and I was thinking of John Hollis, who appears in three of those episodes and has a very distinctive face. I looked him up to see what non-"Avengers" stuff he had done (not counting "The Saint" of course - the crossover between supporting casts of those shows approaches 100%) and discovered that not only was he Lobot in The Empire Strikes Back, but that there is a persistent rumor that he is the unbilled Blofeld-in-a-wheelchair (never seen from the front) in the fuck-you-Kevin-McClory cold open to For Your Eyes Only. I rewatched that the other night, and I honestly couldn't tell whether it was so. I would like it to be so.

-- 21:07, 8 September 2010 (BST)

Iain:

...because that level of concern in/about any aspect of popular culture is wrong and bizarre...

...But why?

OK, yes, you just did an entire entry about "why". Nonetheless, if it amuses you, and you manage to have, you know, a life despite devoting the odd moment or ten here and there to some aspect of pop culture, then what's wrong with it? (Heh. You should ask your wife about the messages I've been sending her today. Now THAT is a bizarre level of knowledge of pop culture.)

(Plus, it brings enjoyment to the masses when you update your Bond pages! ... OK, it brings enjoyment to ME, at least. And I'm pretty sure one or two others. And we've been waiting for just AEONS for a Quantum of Solace update! And then you ought to read the Moneypenny Diaries and do a supplemental entry!)

-- 00:02, 9 September 2010 (BST)

Columbina:

I think you can safely assume that my commentary from here in my glass house is not entirely straightforward. I mean, yes, I DO at heart think most of these Fannish Preoccupations are useless, wasteful pursuits. I also play online games nearly every night, wrote those Bond pages in the first place even if updating them gives me qualms, and two of the projects I mentioned (the Avengers/Saint cross-reference and the Warner cartoon index) are things I have contemplated doing (for far more than thirty seconds, which is really all the time I should have given either idea before evicting it from my head with prejudice).

So. Glass house. Awfully drafty in here.

(It's actually not the Quantum of Solace entry I'd like to do most, it's updating the Thunderball page after reading The Battle For Bond, which gave me new insight into l'affaire McClory.)

-- 04:10, 9 September 2010 (BST)