The trailer for Lord Of The Rings: Return Of The King is out and it looks good! And Shelob is in this one.... EEEP!

Bedfont 1-6 Dons

That's twelve goals in two games for AFC Wimbledon as they continue their demolition of the Combined Counties League and soundly thrashed Bedfont. Goals scored by Everard, Gray and Sheerin, two for Cooper and an own goal. With this sort of form, can anyone stop the Superdons?

Schumacher wins at Indianapolis

Montoya's out of the running now as he has a complete mare at the Brickyard. He punted Barichello off the road and unfortunately, but deservedly, got a drive through penalty. This undoubtedly cost him the title. On top of this, he had a botched pitstop and the Michelen tyres weren't up to the quality of the Bridgestones in the wet. Kimi Raikonnen got second and is still in with a slim chance of the title.

San Diego Chargers 31-34 Oakland Raiders

The Oakland Raiders rallied behind quarterback Rich Gannon against divisional rivals San Diego Chargers with an overtime win. At one point, they were 14 points behind with five minutes of regulation time left. Their record is now 2 wins and 2 losses for the season. Hopefully this close shave will be the catalyst to kick start the Raiders so far uninspiring season.

Womble 'til I die

In just under four hours, franchising will rear its ugly head in English Football. It happened to my club, Wimbledon FC and I don't like it. In fact I hate it! It is the worst thing that could ever have happened to the football team that I have supported since I was a nipper. I never remember making a conscious decision to support them, it seems I always did.

They made into the football league in 1977 and it was the modern fairytale blast up the tables to ultimately reach the top division of English football in 1986. To top this all off, they went on to win the FA Cup in 1988 against all the odds against Liverpool, undeniably the top team in England throughout the 70s and the 80s. Wimbledon continued to be a force in the old division one and the Premiership for many years. Teams dreaded the prospect of a game against The Crazy Gang with their unorthodox style of playing and team of misfits and bruisers. They would have made it into European competition had it not been for the ban on English clubs stemming from the Heysel Stadium disaster.

In 2000, they got relegated to Division One. That was a disaster and I was really disappointed. But that was nothing compared to what was on the horizon. There had always been rumblings of moving the club. Places like Dublin, Hull and Milton Keynes had been mentioned in rumors for years but no one ever expected them to follow through with this threat. It was all rumors, right? On May 28th 2002, the Football League granted permission for Wimbledon FC to relocate to Milton Keynes. On this day, my football club was murdered. Charles Koppel, Peter Winkleman and some faceless Norwegian owners had managed to hoodwink the league into thinking that this was essential to the survival of the club. I won't go into detail. Go to The Big Tissue and click on "The Truth" if you want to find out how to kill a football club. I can honestly say that I felt sick to my stomach whenever I thought about it. Now I am simply resigned to the fact. I don't live in Wimbledon anymore and haven't for fifteen years and people were wondering why the had affected me so profoundly. They have NO idea. It's impossible to explain what it is like. I just hope and pray it never happens to you.

From this disaster AFC Wimbledon was born on May 30th 2002. They play in the Seagrave Haulage Combined Counties League and was created "By the fans for the fans." Be in no doubt, this is the true Wimbledon complete with all the history and achievements and is a direct continuation of the club that was formed as Wimbledon Old Centrals in 1889. Many people expected this venture to fail. It'll be a flash in the pan. A real football club, created by fans? It'll never work. But never forget the Wimbledon spirit.

In the 2002-3 season, they set the CCL alight and everyone was forced to take them seriously. They managed a record of 36 wins out of 46 matches and got 111 points. A championship season in most other leagues but they finished third behind a rampant Withdean 2000 and AFC Wallingford. This season so far, AFC Wimbledon have won 8 out of 8 games.

Here is a club with a significant following, amassing a serious amount of money. They get more fans through the gates than The Franchise who play in a league 7 divisions higher. It won't be long before they are knocking on the doors of the football league again.

Now that The Franchise have abandoned London, there remains just one thing to complete the transfer of the spirit of the football club in Wimbledon to the true owners. The franchise currently known as "Wimbledon FC" now play in Milton Keynes. All links have been severed with the community that they were stolen from apart from the name. They have to change their name. Once this happens, I will be satisfied and I will (all be it begrudgingly) wish The Franchise luck in their venture. At that time, they will be a different club with nothing to do with the borough of Merton or AFC Wimbledon.

I have managed not to be abusive in this post but I need to say this one last thing. Charles Koppel, club killer... you are a complete c*nt. That is all.

Womble 'til I die
Womble 'til I die
I know I am
I'm sure I am
Womble 'til I die

The Matrix Revolutions trailers are out

deviantART

I found this really cool website yesterday while I was trawling the interweb on my lunch break. It's called deviantART. It's basically a place for people to show off thier creations. Every kind of image is there for you to find from Indy Art to mobile phone backgrounds. You may have to separate the wheat from the chaff but it's worth it. I really like it.

Rice Rocket

I've just had a go in Amy and Deacon's Nissan Pulsar GTI-R 2.0L Turbo... RUDE!

Stupid grin etched across my face right now. I'm used to my Toyota MR2 which is no slouch I assure you, but this is mentalism! He got it today and it's been tweaked to 280-290 bhp. Standard, it's about 230 bhp. I definitely feels like it has been influenced by rally cars with the four wheel drive and the performance. The exhaust is big enough to stick your head into and LOUD. It's got a funky little dump valve that makes it sound like a rally car, the one the tweets when you change gear. Basically, you'd be able to completely destroy most things that are on the road today.

In most magazines, it still gets compared to the Subaru Impreza WRX and Mitsubishi Lancer Evo more than ten years after it's launch. Max Power describes it as an 'Utter Weapon.' I think this is rather unfortunate as that is what we call people who irritate us at work, but I can identify with the sentiment. Check out the picture I took and take note of the number plate. I decided to leave just the last three letters showing.

They're not the prettiest car on the planet but that doesn't really matter as you won't see it for long. You don't get one of these for the way it looks. I am so tempted to start looking for one for myself but I'm still loving my MR2 so that won't happen for a long time. If anything, my next motor will be an MR2 Turbo. We'll see when I get to that point.

I'm sure you'll be reading of it's adventures on my ickle sister's blog.

Oh yeah, Deacon... I knew you wouldn't be able to resist a jap motor for long :)

The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed

In my humble opinion, this is the coolest opening sentence to any book that I have read. It instantly grabbed me and made me want to consume the entire volume. It is The Dark Tower I : The Gunslinger by Stephen King.

I picked this one up yesterday to read it for the third time (It's THAT good). I just found out that there is a re-written version. I'm going to get this before going any further. The consensus of the reviews I've read on the interweb seem to be that it is far better than the original.

I never managed to get into the following volumes. I found myself too easily distracted. I reckon that it's because I was only sixteen when I first read them. Maybe this time round, I'll understand it better because I remember that there were some concepts in the books that simply confused me and I don't think I was patient enough to bother to work them out.

[The new Stephen King website is very nice and the The Dark Tower section is particularly good. Give it a look.]

The Bridge by Iain Banks

"A man lies in a coma after a near-fatal accident. His body broken, his memory vanished, he finds himself in the surreal world of the bridge - a world free of the usual constraints of time and space, a world where dream and fantasy, past and future fuse. Who is this man? Where is he? Is he more dead than alive? Or has he never been so alive before?"

The book is written is a style that makes it feel like a dream as the man tries to figure out what is going on and who he is. The Bridge is seemingly endless, spanning the massive ocean between the City and the Kingdom which none of the inhabitants have ever seen. Everything seems to be working against him making any progress. The fact that the inhabitants of the Bridge seem to have misplaced a library is a good example of this. Several threads of plot are mixed in, the real world, the Bridge and a next level of dreams that the man has while on the Bridge. One of these is of a brainless barbarian assaulting the underworld written in an almost unreadable dialect (Irvine Welsh fans please note, Banks was here first!) These aren't to taxing and pretty easy to work out but that doesn't change the fact that this is an awesome read. The whole book is nicely weird and leftfield and manages not to alienate the reader at any time. I reckon I'll be reading this again in a few years.

One other thing, I am more of an Iain M Banks fan and really enjoy his Sci-Fi work. This is a good start if you want to check out his 'regular' fiction.

Maffy Rating - Read it! Read it, NOW!

Before you criticise a man, walk a mile in his shoes. That way, when you do criticise him, you'll be a mile away and have his shoes.

Somebody found my blog by typing 'Kittens Sing Metallica' into Google. I thought this was really cool.

I've had a few hits from people looking for tickets for The Darkness at the BIC and also from the phase 'wi' a wannion'. And I don't even know what a 'wannion' is!

Just thought I should share this with you. That is all.

Destructionism and OMG LOL WTF!11!!!!!111

Another unnecessarily violent flashy thing for you from the Orient. It's called Destructionism and you shoot people. How nice.

This made me laugh. It made me laugh A LOT. It's especially useful if you want to infiltrate the Busted message board or other such deviant and base sites. Here's one I made earlier... 'G3T UR HANDS OF MAH WOMAN MOTHERFUK3R1!1!1 LOL'. For those who are wondering, I have a pure and deep hatred of what is known as AOLspeak. For me, it is up there with spam and l33tspeak.

Last one. This is the Urban Dictionary. It's been around for a while so you may have seen it but I like it so have a play.

Impurity, Sin and Damnation (eeep!)

The Dante's Inferno Test says I'm going to the First Level of Hell - Limbo!
Here is how I matched up against all the levels:

Level	Score
Purgatory (Repenting Believers)	Very Low
Level 1 - Limbo (Virtuous Non-Believers)	High
Level 2 (Lustful)	Moderate
Level 3 (Gluttonous)	Moderate
Level 4 (Prodigal and Avaricious)	Very Low
Level 5 (Wrathful and Gloomy)	High
Level 6 - The City of Dis (Heretics)	Moderate
Level 7 (Violent)	Moderate
Level 8- the Malebolge (Fraudulent, Malicious, Panderers)	Moderate
Level 9 - Cocytus (Treacherous)	Low

Take the Dante Inferno Hell Test

Me... a virtuous non-believer... hmmm. If you look at my results, I'd have to say that I'm semi-eviiil, quasi-eviiil or Scott Evil. At least I don't get burned or things attached to my nipples or anything. But seeing as I don't believe in Heaven, let alone Hell it's a bit of a moot point. Actually, thinking about it too much hurts my head. I'll have to discuss it with Socrates and Aristotle when I get there.

Pointy Stabby Death

Here you will find a heart rending tale, conveyed through the medium of the internet flash film of a man and his knife, his rifle, his axe, his fist, other people's heads, his sword... etc... etc... Somebody call the academy and give this guy an Oscar, NOW (academy? Nut house more like!) Comes with a free bodycount too!!!

3-D Pong

A groovy little flash game here. This gives me a headache too but it's very cool.

Eye Need an Eye Transplant...

ARRRGH! My eyes! For some reason, I've now got a splitting headache too.