or rather the saga of the viking women and their voyage to the waters of the great sea serpent
plot:
a group of lonely viking women build a ship and set off across the sea to locate their missing menfolk, only to fall into the clutches of the barbarians that also hold their men captive. there is a cameo appearance by the sea serpent
one of roger corman’s finest
enjoy!
you’ll find lots more b-movie classics streaming away at amctv.com’s bmc
pb speed records
(& some of the lesser laws of physics too)
update: so, that’s the bicycle speedometer boldly stating that siggimuses max speed this morning was 254,0 km/h
considering the thoughts that reaching 215,2 km/h sparked, this is — at 30% over terminal velocity — can we agree on interesting?
one time i was looking for a model to be on a belle and sebastian single sleeve. i asked catherine. she agreed to be handcuffed to railings near my house for the white collar boy single.
we borrowed the manacles from the bbc prop department. rebus, i think it was. we had the key, i tried it, and it worked ok! of course, as soon as we locked catherine to the fence near the river, we couldn’t get her out. the cuffs got tighter, the wind blew colder, and the poor girl started to look a bit faint.
we had to call the fire brigade. six of them turned up, really fast! plus two coppers! i think they liked the idea of a maiden in distress. they gave me a lot of dirty looks.
“don’t tell them we’re doing this for a band or anything,” i whispered to my wife, who was helping with the pictures.
a burly policemen walked up. “hello, officer!” i burbled. “sorry about this.”
“you’re in belle and sebastian, aren’t you?” he said, as though he were mentally adding that to the list of crimes.
siggimus, for one, is starting to get a bit excited about this ultimate girl group
& siggimus survived!!
siggimus is quite happy about his achievement in the whole thing, especially after losing a whole week to a sprained neck (walking that one day)
21 – days in total
14 – working days (thus days counted in thingy)
4 – days missed (because of sprained neck ‘sports’ injury)
12 – days counted (you’re allowed to make up for missed days, as long as you go to work)
1 – days out of those 12 walked (permitted!)
11 – days cycled
19,21 – average distance per day, in km
19 – trips cycled (not necessary to cycle both ways)
230.470 – total distance cycled, in metres
13:34:38 – total time spent cycling
32,17 – longest day-distance, in km
97% – infection rate of cycling bug
1-2 – days siggimus will rest before getting back into saddle
although siggimus will barely manage the workplace average in distance, siggimus takes comfort in two things. 1) if he had actually cycled 3 more days, at average of 20,52 km per day (if you only count the days cycled), siggimus woulda been a bit over the average 🙂 2) the workplace average is offset by seriously lunaticcy people who had cycled over 580 kms last time siggimus checked
newest member of the family, ugla / puce (owl). she’s an approximately one year old russian blue (not pure – eyes aren’t green) from a cat shelter
why would anyone buy a stinky shampoo or conditioner?
why use soap or shower gel that leaves you clean, but stinky?
hand-soap or under-arm roll-on or whatever you use for antiperspirant – why the eff pick a stinky one?
you use all these things & remove the ‘bad’ stink to replace it with ‘good’ stink only to realise that when you finally put on the one thing you didn’t choose despite the stink, but actually because of it – perfume or eau de cologne – you have to drown out all the other fucken stinks, ending up mixing it all up in a terrible mess of incompatible fucken stinks!!
it would fucken take someone with the fucken nose of jean-baptiste fucken grenouille to fucken manage something fucken interesting out of that
(fucken rant of the day fucken courtesy of a mistakenly bought shower fucken gel that siggimus can’t fucken throw away, as there’s a recession. recession calls for frugal fucken living. even if it makes you fucken stink
& this is after siggimus has fucken stunk for just over 2 stinking hours…)
