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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Sachsgate

This morning I paid a visit to the corner shop to get some milk, bread and Marlboro Lights. As usual, I made a beeline for the fish 'n' chip paper rack and scanned the headlines. The one on the Daily Mail jumped out at me:THE DAY OF RECKONINGHoly shit, I thought, it must be Election Day in the US. Had I really overslept by a week? Of course, it wasn't and I hadn't. The Daily Mail headline - in fact, the front page story on every tabloid, broadsheet and freesheet this morning - wasn't about the US elections, the violence [...]

No, I’m Bill Murray

I wouldn't normally do this sort of thing, but Bill Murray is God and this flash animation is one of the funniest things I've seen in ages.Wait until the very end - it's worth it.Thanks to the public spirited souls of the Brum Bloggers Meet for the heads up.

Dunkirk

From 4Talent:Film Dash took place over 48 hours in Birmingham, with teams putting together films of less than five minutes in length, in a competition organised by Created In Birmingham’s Chris Unitt, honouring the memory of Birmingham-born Ealing comedies producer Michael Balcon. 4Talent Commissioning Editor Catherine Bray was one of three judges.The winner was Dunkirk, by Rachael Marchant, Danny Smith and my old mate Pete Ashton. The film is a five minute Brum-based saga about love, loss and urban decay that features a rather groovy Bleep Labs' Thingamagoop synthesiser as its protagonist. In what will surely be its breakthrough role, [...]

The Virtual Cinema

Following on from something I posted fairly recently - and blathered on at great length about at last night's Brum Bloggers Meet - King's Visualisation Lab at King's College London seem to be working on a virtual reality reconstruction of Birmingham's magnificent Kingstanding Odeon. This, of course, would be a VR simulation of its glory days as a cinema, not a VR simulation of its subsequent life as a bingo hall. There's currently no need digitally reconstruct bingo halls, although if attendance figures continue to slide there might well be soon.There's more (but not much more) about it here.

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