Captain’s Log: Stardate… Um… 1

So I decided it was time to go back and watch Star Trek’s prequel series Enterprise. I saw some of the first series when it came out and wasn’t impressed, and therefore ignored the subsequent few series that followed, but since that fact has stopped me from claiming the mighty accolade of having seen every episode of Star Trek ever, I figured I’d bite the bullet and get on it.

It’s not actually bad at all.

I mean, it’s a different kettle of space squids to DS9 or Voyager for example, but it’s still quite entertaining. It’s just one of those things you need to stop looking at from the perspective of trying to fit it into the existing story (because then it doesn’t make any fucking sense) and start appreciating for what it is, which is a pretty cool sci-fi show.

I’m knee deep in the first series and thoroughly enjoying it, and would advise any sci-fi fans to wade in too. And if you weren’t already sold, T’Pol (played by the saucy Jolene Blalock) seems to get naked from time to time. Result.

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Likes Save Tykes

Feel free to use that as the name for a Facebook campaign to stop Joseph Kony. You’re welcome, internet.

Did anyone else misread the title of that Kony 2012 video and expect a Kanye West music video? I legitimately clicked play and immediately thought ‘this is the most depressing opening to a hip hop music video I’ve ever seen.’ That being said, as well as this Kony guy being a kidnapping warlord, he could also be labelled a gay fish. That’d hurt his street cred fo’ sho’.

Also, is it just me or does he look exactly like Carl Weathers of Predator fame?

Come on, tell me you don’t see it!

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Rude Crude Studio Dudes

What up playas.

The studio has been redesigned! It’s all very open plan now, just need to work out the particulars of microphone placement and we’re ready to roll!

Our very own Kelsey Champion has kindly agreed to act as producer for the show, dealing with the booking of guests and arranging of times and such, so all things being even, everything should flow quite smoothly…

I’ve also decided that I intend to follow in the footsteps of the great visionaries of random pointlessness on the internet such as Joel Watson, Natalie Dee or the guys at Explosm, and make this my living some day. This being considered, if you have a product, website or event to promote and you want to pay me handsomely for advertising space on the site or on the show, please get in touch!

That’s the update for now, stay tuned and we’ll be with you shortly!

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Return Of The Great Orange Dope

Boys and girls, it’s that time again…

It’s the time when we decide to drag this disorganised mess of a show kicking and screaming out of retirement and drop it, disgruntled and lazy, onto your laps every Sunday.

There’s going to be a few changes this time round though…

The shows will be shorter and more regular, aiming for a thirty minute show every Sunday.

The topics off which we tangent will be more topical, drawing from current news stories provided by international news websites, movie critic sites, videogame enthusiast sites and various other internet sources.

The unsigned music is gone! I’m sad to see this one go, but a big part of what killed the show the first two times is the surprising amount of unsigned bands that don’t want free promo. It made it hard to base a show around promoting unsigned music when everyone ignored my e-mails. So just straight-up talkshow this time.

And most importantly, and this is a big one, to reflect our more serious and professional manner, there has been a huge image change. The shade of orange has changed from hex code FF9900 to FF8000. Yeah. I know. I’m as shocked as you are, but it’s for the best, I don’t think we’d have survived with the very slightly more yellow shade of orange we’d been using for so long.

So that’s the skinny, we’re reassembling the studio and reassembling the team for some tangential nonsense thinly disguised as a talkshow. It’s all on the way, keep an eye out, my freaky darlings.

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Stating The Obvious

Howdy chumps,

It seems almost redundant to mention it but we’re on a bit of a hiatus at the moment. Since December the presenting cast all live together which leaves us nothing to talk about on air that we haven’t already talked about. A troublesome dynamic for a talk show.

But that’s only partly the problem. We’re all caught up in our own little projects at the moment which are taking precedent over our little podcast. FB’s spending his time working on his fledgling media technology business, SpectreCon, Kelsey is working hard at uni for her journalism degree and I’m getting back into the music scene by writing an album.

And just so I feel a little better about our crappy break timing, do me a solid and check out Lisabi, the new band featuring my old buddy Andre from the Atomic Nachos. Old school right? But yeah, check these guys out, it reminds me of NoFX’s ska stuff, but more awesome. You can quote that if you want.

Hope life’s treating you well everybody,

Be seeing you!

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Still Alive…

Hey y’all. Sorry it’s been forevs since an update, it’s been busy times in the world of Wildly Irrelevant. By that I mean we’ve all got better things to do.

I’ve been training at a local radio station so that’s taken a chunk of my attention previously devoted to this very show, and we’ve found an inherent problem of living with your co-hosts. All the banter is already used up by the time I turn on the mics.

We will get back into the swing of things, but I make no promises when that will be.

In the mean time, I’ve been working on the website and all the doings for FB’s band ‘The Change’. If you like sexy funky music go check their fine selves out at www.thechangetrio.co.uk. If you go via the store on their site you can download their debut single for free. Bargain.

Have fun with that my lovelies. Hope you’re all peaches.

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Wonder Woman McBeal

Ally McWonder Woman maybe? I dunno.

David E. Kelley, screen writer of Boston Legal and Ally McBeal, has been snagged as the screen writer for the new Wonder Woman TV series due to premiere on NBC some time in the not too distant future. According to an article over at Crave Online the premise of the show is being rewritten to feature Diana Prince as not only a vigilante crime fighter, but “a successful corporate executive and a modern woman” too. Which basically means she’ll be a generic sassy businesswoman. Eugh.

This Kelley guy needs a lobotomy for giving Wonder Woman the Sex & The City makeover. Princess Diana of the Amazons would not be closing financial deals and meeting her girlies for brunch to discuss the hot new guy in marketing. She’d be fucking murdering everyone.

Just give it to Chris Nolan. He seems to be the only man in Hollywood with the balls to make DC superheroes look like the badasses they are. They entrusted the new Superman movie to him, so it would’ve made sense to give him Wonder Woman too. He’d get a commemorative plate for all three.

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