Uh-oh. I’ve received the following message from YouTube concerning my two Secret Life of Skeletor vids:
Entertainment Rights has claimed some or all visual content in your video The Secret Life of Skeletor. This claim was made as part of the YouTube Content Identification programme.
Your video is no longer visible in some locations, because Entertainment Rights has chosen to block it.
Ho hum. Can’t see what harm they were doing – surely they just raised awareness of Skeletor and the Masters of the Universe cartoons in general? But never mind, it seems ‘Entertainment Rights’ owns Skeletor’s face so their decision has to be respected.
I’ve removed them from YouTube as it’s pointless having videos up that most people can’t see. I may consider removing some other dubbed stuff (Britain’s Got Gas, Cyberman Call Centre) in the near future as I REALLY don’t want my YouTube account suspended.
Bizarre and random meeting news! My nephew (who helps out with and appears in Noseybonk) is currently on a school trip to Paris. They were in a café in Montmartre and by total coincidence met David Hasselhoff – The Hoff himself. Here’s an embedded video of the meeting, taken direct from Mr. Hasselhoff’s official site:
My nephew is the lad at the front in the navy blue sweatshirt. Maximum respect to the Mighty Hoff for taking time out to be nice to some kids.
Sudden idea! People keep asking me where they can get various bits of knock-off tat. My response is nearly always “Keep an eye on Ebay”, because you can’t reliably find them at normal retail outlets. Well, I’ve now put together an Ebay links thing which shows you auctions for various items of interest.
Please note that I am not selling these items personally – I am just providing links. In theory I should receive a tiny commission if any of them sell, which I can put towards site hosting / buying more review tat. (I think if 15,000 people buy items I get 4p, or something.)
US viewers get to play with this pretty widget thing, which showcases specific excellent things I’ve found:
Whereas UK based viewers have to suffer the insultingly low-tech alternative of clicking on these search links:
Bit of a blow for the UK there, especially as we seem to have a better selection of knock-off tat locally. Hopefully Ebay will enable its widget thing for non-US auctions soon, because Blogger doesn’t like their Javascript alternative.
Anyway, I’ll see how this goes for a bit and if anyone actually uses it. Cheerio!
Well blimey. Noseybonk features in the latest issue of UK celebrity news magazine Heat. He inexplicably appears sideways on the letters page together with the slogan “Bring Back Noseybonk!” There is no mention of him elsewhere.
That’s the photo I had taken for the “Cookery” wallpaper, reversed and with the carving knife removed – presumably so as not to completely terrify readers. (Surely the photo would have worked better if they’d removed the whole arm? Maybe they still wanted a small threat of physical violence.)
Many thanks to everyone who pointed out Nosey’s appearance in print.
I’ve finally caved to the repeated e-mails from people asking where they can buy one of the action figures featured in an old video, and made ten more of the bearded monsters. Point your eyes towards this limited-edition advert (use of ears is also advised):
So, in the immensely unlikely event that you want one, run over to auction.ashens.com which attempts to sort out an Ebay link suitable to your current position on the planet.
In other things, it’s the start of the month so Trailer Club 70 has been updated again. And I actually remembered to mention it here for once!
A friend of mine runs the Green Canaries Wheelchair Basketball Club, which is a small East Anglian sports organisation. It’s aim is to help isolated people with disabilities get out and about more, gain confidence and learn wheelchair skills.
Surprisingly, locally-despised finance company Norwich Union has taken time out from proffering mediocre investments to operate a Community Sports Fund. It has deigned to divert some money away from its Chief Executive’s pension towards some worthy causes – and this is where you can help.
If you point your clicking device towards this link, you will see the Green Canaries Wheelchair Basketball Club listed down the right-hand side. By clicking on the “Vote for Us” button and registering your e-mail address, the Club receives a vote. The more votes they receive, the higher their chances of being awarded money to spend on equipment, facilities and training.
Even the lowest payout of £1000 (it’s actually very hard to get any more than that) would make a tremendous difference to this worthy cause. And it costs nothing more than time spent filling in a short form.
So go on, folks – register your approval and help make a difference to local people with disabilities.
1. I’ve SOLD OUT of Neo Double Games. I got all of the wholesaler’s stock so there will probably not be any more ever. SAD FACE
2. I’ve put a little donation button on the right of the page. I feel a bit funny about taking people’s money without providing anything directly, but the bloody Vii was so expensive that I’m willing to overlook that…
PLEASE STOP E-MAILING ME AND SENDING ME YOUTUBE MESSAGES ABOUT THE VII.
The “Vii” is a Chinese-made rip-off of Nintendo’s super-popular Wii. It’s not currently available, will almost certainly never be sold outside China, and the cost of importing one would be horrific. (The unit will apparently cost about £80 officially, so imagine how much these ‘rare’ items would go for on Ebay)
If I can ever get one, I will. That’s all I can say.
I’m receiving about 40 messages a week at the moment. Please stop, folks.
