Tom Lennon • Freelance Writer: comedy and pop culture

Freelance writer specializing in comedy and the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum.

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Marvel, Disney & Howard The Mouse

From The Guardian: The Walt Disney empire is to buy the superheroes stable Marvel Entertainment for $4bn (£2.5bn) in a star-studded Hollywood deal that unites family names such as Mickey Mouse with lucrative characters including Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men. I didn't see that coming. Of course, if I did, then I would have invested heavily into Marvel stock last week, seeing as its value shot up by 26% today. Hindsight, as ever, is a pain in the arse. A lot of comics fans seem quite horrified at the prospect of the House of Ideas being converted into [...]

8Bit lounge

My good pal Pete Ashton will be doing a DJ set at tomorrow evening's 8Bit Lounge at the Hare & Hounds: A delightful evening of all things computer game and arcade oriented. From an array of consoles to play on including: a SNES with 5 player Bomberman and all original controllers an N64 with 4 player greatness like Starfox 64 a Gamecube with some great 4 player games like Timesplitters 2 Chromatouch will be using old school consoles to control visuals on the night, including a Nintendo DS that can be used to control visuals wirelessly through cellsds. We are [...]

I Can Has iPhone

It's my birthday today, but instead of letting myself descend into a cesspool of self-pity as I become acutely aware of my mortality and all that, I've instead decided to upgrade my mobile to an iPhone. I wouldn't have done it if Clare hadn't kept egging me on, but I'm glad she did as it's rather nice and shiny and I'm currently using it to write this post. As mid-life crises signifiers go, it could have been a lot worse.