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• Sat, 14:04: RT @tinkerkitten4: “@mykkym1: BBC News - Davos 2013: Osborne says UK spending cuts to continue until 2017 http://t.co/SlySxAQP” >> ...
• Sat, 14:04: RT @MicheleMcAvoy: @mykkym1 And what plan is that? Making the poor suffer and the rich continue as normal! The man is an idiot has no id ...
• Sat, 14:04: RT @britishroses1: Welfare petitioners continue push for 100,000 backers | Ekklesia http://t.co/p7kNfVJ5
• Sat, 14:04: RT @mykkym1: BBC News - Osborne defends government's deficit reduction plan http://t.co/fbiMyrje
• Sat, 14:04: RT @mykkym1: BBC News - GDP: Max Keiser on UK economy, bonds and gold market http://t.co/1JsBlDzB
• Sat, 14:05: RT @mykkym1: BBC News - Danny Alexander on GDP figures and economic plans http://t.co/Nm3JLWFS Read my lips Mr Alexander - the economy ...
• Sat, 14:05: RT @JohnCharlesDyer: We are not bedazzled, baffled, bewildered or confused - The Daily Report Card of Unresolved Coalition Issues http:/ ...
• Sat, 14:05: RT @suzanne_moore: We need Class War.This is utter toss http://t.co/6x9s5GSy
• Sat, 14:05: RT @EtonOldBoys: I do miss the bad old days of Labour, 13 years of SOLID GROWTH and no recessions, Tories in 2 years and Three recession ...
• Sat, 14:05: RT @MacfarlaneRobin: What is all this "NASTY PARTY" call them what they are NEOLIBERAL "NAZIS" just the same as those in WW2.Neoliberali ...

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Clips From "Rome" - The Battle Of Philippi

Clips From "Rome" - Servilia's Death Scene

"Now that ... is an exit."

Exquisitely funny one liner from Mark Antony (James Purefoy).

Clips From "Rome" - Pullo Kicks Righteous Arse

I had no idea that "THIRTEEN!" in Latin was pronounced "Roll Initiative!"

 

Clips From "Rome" - Gaia

After a heartbreaking tragedy for Pullo (Ray Stevenson) where he lost his wife Eirene (Chiara Mastalli) and unborn child, he ends up in a relationship with Gaia (Zuleikha Robinson), mercenary and meretrix. After she fends off an attack from a former rival Of Vorenus' turned feral beast, Gaia saves Pullo's life but receives a major wound in the battle.

And then she lets slip that it was she who murdered Pullo's wife and baby just so she could worm her way into Pullo's bed. Pullo's reply is immediate.

 

Clips From "Rome" - Pullo In The Arena

Titus Pullo is forced into the gladiatorial arena, with hilarious results. And by "hilarious," I mean in the sense of "copious amounts of bloodletting and amputations."

 

Clips From "Rome" - Cicero's Death

Dramatisation of the death of Cicero.

And the actual moment itself:-

 

Anniversary Runup

In a short time, this blog turns nine years old. The Plainclothes Clown began posting here on January 28, 2004. It was a very different world back then for me.

I was in work, though I would not be in work for much longer; we still had plenty of SF on television, with repeats of Star Trek; and television still mattered to me, though clearly the interest was beginning to wane.

My early blogging attempts were mostly memes and quizzes - the usual crap people post loads of when they are starting to show their faces, much as people post inane pictures of their lunch or pictures of cats on Facebook today. I did not open my own Facebook account until about 2006 or thereabouts, so pretty much everything I did publicly was through LJ.

And we still had six people in my family. My brother was still alive, back then. If I could travel back in time, I'd probably tell my younger self of nine years ago to take better care of Sean on January 23 2011, though knowing me I would have likely forgotten that little warning on the day or something.

So much has happened in the last nine years. One blog is not enough to contain them all.

Which is what I'll be posting about in my next blog entry.