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The Inauguration

I have a confession to make.It's not an easy thing to admit to. In these rheumy-eyed, cynical times it can be considered dreadfully unfashionable, politically naïve and more than a tad suspicious. In certain circles it is regarded as an early indicator of the onset of water on the brain. However, at the risk of losing my friends, my credibility and even my credit rating I have to come clean:While listening to President Barack Obama's inaugural address today I found myself experiencing an overpowering sense of optimism.There. That wasn't so difficult to say.

George is Wrathful

How bizarre.The Seinfeld season 8 DVD boxset came through the post this morning. I'm a big fan of Seinfeld, and used to avidly watch it on BBC2 during the 90s, but I never saw much of the last two seasons due in no small part to erratic BBC scheduling. This evening Clare and I watched the first disc worth of episodes including season 8 opener - The Foundation - which I'd never seen before.By way of a set-up, the fiancée of self-proclaimed 'Lord of the Idiots' George Costanza died at the end of season 7 in a rather tasteless manner. [...]

Golf Stream

Lils has joined an after-school golf club at her infant school where she and her five year old pals will soon be learning the arcane arts of pitching, putting and wearing a Pringle v-neck. She's tremendously excited about it. Lils was talking to Clare and me about this, and I said, quite innocently: "Wow, Lils - at the age of five you're learning to do something that I've spent thirty-eight years trying to avoid.""What's that?" said Lils. "Work?"The line was delivered with precision comic timing. I was never that good.

Ricardo Montalbán, 1920-2009

Oh God, not again.Only a day after I wrote a post about the late Patrick McGoohan, I now find myself writing about another cherished actor who has sadly passed away. Like most unrepentant fanboys, I'll always remember Ricardo Montalbán for his portrayal of my favourite screen villain, Khan Noonien Singh. However disillusioned I might have become with the franchise over time, Star Trek 2: The Wrath of Khan remains one of my favourite guilty pleasure movies, and that is due in no small part to Montalbán's incendiary performance.Montalbán played Khan on two occasions, in the 1982 movie and in the [...]

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My name is Tom Lennon, and I’m a freelance writer who specializes in humor at the geekier end of the pop culture spectrum. My work has appeared on various sites, including BuzzFeed and Time Out, and I contributed an essay to the book The Cyberpunk Nexus: Exploring the Blade Runner Universe. More recently, my article “The French Comic That Changed the World” appeared in the first volume of Metal Hurlant magazine (Humanoids Publishing, 2025).

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