Yes, more washing and brushing up for the blog/website. Having done a fair amount of design work for other people's blogs and businesses over the last few weeks, I noticed that I'd just started to repeat a few stylistic bits I'd done here and I didn't want to plagurise myself so I've continued to tinker and tweak. I make no promises that this is the end of said tweaking as I want to get just the right balance between professional and personal over the different pages that will make up the package and the 'There Goes The Day' branding.

I think I've seen all the major comic-book films of the year - are there more to come? But it's been (and currently still is) a great year for comic book adaptations in general. I was pleasantly surprised by Iron Man which has Robert Downey Jnr, Jon Favreau and designer Adi Granov to thank for it's impressive debut outing for Marvel Studios. This was quickly followed by The Incredible Hulk which might not have been quite 'in' but was certainly a credible effort and more evenly enjoyable than the off-kilter Ang Lee outing of 2003.

Mark Millar's Wanted was deliciously over-the-top and un-PC and, ultimately a great guilty pleasure (his Kick-Ass goes into production soon and is destined to have Fox News and The Daily Mail foaming at the mouth).

Then there's The Dark Knight which is genuinely one of the best movies I've seen in years. As mentioned previously, there's been a big hoo-hah in the UK about the rating and yes, I agree it's an obviously solid '15' and poor little twelve year olds may have their poor brains warped by the darkness that permeates every frame - but spare me the lip-quivering of the politicos and Daily Mail who blame the film-makers and the BBFC when their eight year old is traumatised by it. 12A may be an advisory certificate, but I have little sympathy with those who ignore such advice and take eight year olds in! Then again, I DO think the BBFC got it a bit wrong. But, hey, everyone's a critic, right?

Hellboy II: The Golden Army opens here shortly, but I got to see it last week. The story could have been tightened up a bit, but it's a joyfully bizarre romp and no-one can realistically dispute that the visual imagination of Guillermo del Toro remains as amazing as ever. I remember Ron Perlman from back in his Beauty & The Beast days and he remains firmly on my 'want to interview' list.

Oh and thanks to Gillian for highlighting the below video on her blog and pointing me in its original direction. It's one of many vignettes out there and kinda sums up this blog entry better than I ever could. Which is a hell of an exit line for those of you who had to sit through me...

A few weeks ago I doubt anyone could find South Ossetia on a map - in a few weeks they may not be able to anyway. Today you have most of the world leaders talking about the horrendous situation there. It's true... truly horrible photos and accounts of man's inhumanity to man, or more accurately explosions and gunfire and bombs inhumanity to man, but after several millenia I think we've more than proven our ability to be all too inhumanly human whenever the mood or land-grab arises. Pardon me, I'm channeling Methos.

A few weeks ago some happy chappy was telling me we're only ever a week away from a revolution. It wasn't some Socialist Worker newspaper seller, either. It was in reaction to the oil crisis and the fact that if petrol-stations shut or were unable to provide fuel then it would take around four days for there to be a lack of basic food (water, milk, bread... chocolate!) getting to most outlets - a few days later people would likely be prepared to break the law to provide for themselves and families. A sobering thought.

*Yawn*. Long day.

Those more observant people may have noticed that the Blog has undergone something of a major wash and brush up (or, more accurately, is still undergoing it). This is a symptom of me needing some time away from the writing of the articles and the designing of all things Highlander WorldWide (having its own update this coming week), my parentals going mad with paint-brushes and because... well, I just felt like it. I've been tweaking the look for the last few weeks but when I found a template that allows not two, not three, but technically seven (count 'em) 'columns', I knew I'd found what I was looking for to mix and match the elements I wanted here. So much to say, now the space to say it. I know, I know. I'm easily pleased and need to get out more...

Naturally, the tweaking had its up and downs and when some material disappeared from the old site when I wasn't even on it, I knew I had to update this page quickly so the masses (yes, all of you!) weren't disappointed or confused. Or no more than usual. Consider it a work in progress (Kinda like me).

The black link bar under the header is a nice addition (soon to be better populated with Moz-links) and the blog area has more possibilities too. Hopefully all the old blogs entries are still there in the archives and are just hiding. I'll be separating some of the personal and professional stuff off, but this will be the hub-page, the place that all the important things revolve around. (Kinda like me).

Oh, and the picture at the top of this post? Absolutely nothing to do with anything. Just the most bizarre image I've ever found on Google and that's saying something. It's so wrong, it's just right. Kinda like...