Now waiting for Irish politicians to head over to kiss the ring ahead of Paddy's Day - even though Trump is broadly *despised* in Ireland (oh, and Vance, and the MAGA cult, and the wretched, cowardly former Republican party). Let's see how much grovelling to the US' Fascist oafs our government does.

Damnit. Seems like everyone's meeting Hideo - where's the queue?!

Oh, leave them alone. Those second-row warriors are clearly fighting their own Battle of the Bulge. (Shirts and belts.)

Don't forget his supporters.

History won't.

The Log is pleased by Hideo's excellent taste.

Still waiting to be able to send pictures in direct messages, and maybe to add more than 4 photos at a time. The former is really holding this all back, and why I know some people haven't come over here yet, even though they hate Twitter.

Having fun with it, but its PS5 bugs are BIZARRE. I won a key fight because the character didn't load any attack moves, so just stood there and got beaten! Talking in a castle later on suddenly jumped to a random bandit camp, who were all defeated by other, clipping NPCs while I was in conversation!

Well, it's Amazon-funded, so - as we Irish came up with boycotting - I'm happy to honour our traditions and boycott any Bondian tripe a-la 'Rings of Power'. I've seen enough clips of *that* mess - and suffered enough of the Harfoots' Generic Oirish Simpletons' offensive accents - to watch Ama-Bond.

I'd say the 90 million eligible voters who didn't bother to get off their arses and vote for anyone also deserve much of the blame. As does the archaic, anti-democratic Electoral College system. As does the hopelessly limited (effectively) two-party system. Pick A or B, for 360m people! Shocking...

I'm extremely reluctant to ever defend that fascist arsehole - but in this case, he's perfectly entitled to, as he'd argue that he's just running a company or service and not obliged to help the Ukrainians, who have every right to look for someone else. Deeply immoral, of course, but legal.

Arigato, Hideo, for bringing that actress back into focus again. She was a part of my TV childhood back in the 1970s, so it was great to see her in 'Death Stranding' - so curious for how the sequel will turn out! 🙏

Have a fried Mars Bar, drink some Iron Bru, and get someone to dig you up some episodes of Rab C Nesbitt on YouTube. If you can understand what Rab, Jamesie and Mary Doll are saying without subtitles, I will be impressed.

Needs some rolling barrels and Mario jumping up around that font and boom, you're good to go.

What a hideous cover to stare at. Ugh!

Oh - and the garish bright red isn't great either.

Vive la Resistance! 🇨🇦

She was very clearly having a blast when she filmed that episode - she even skips, once, in a scene as she leaves a room following Columbo. I like how you also never know her victim's guilt, or not; it's just Her belief that drives her. Also, that particular episode has particularly excellent music.

Oh, just one more thing - any day with (early seasons) Columbo in it is a good day.

But I never remember its root.

3.142 strawberries, or something...

I watched so much of her as a kid in rural Ireland, in those TV shows back in the 70s. An underrated, charismatic actress - this has been an interesting turn in her late career. 👏

For comment no. 666, I have somewhere an old photo of Kid Colin on his local Castleknock football team. He still looks the same, pretty much! Who knew he'd be a star?!