The View From Lower Down

So my brother came up with a brilliant idea for a post. I will interview him, he will tell me the plot of Avengers: Endgame and I will upload the transcript of that conversation. To tide you over in the meantime though, I asked him to name all the main Avengers. There are six; he managed 14. Probably most entertaining is him trying to remember Hawkeye, and somehow thinking he was played by Liam Neeson. For comparison: Source:  https://9gag.com/gag/6390968 My personal favourite though is his third suggestion. See if you can guess who he was talking about, and how he got there. Answer in the next Avengers post (I may decide to do other posts before then). Thor Black Spider The Gruffalo Spiderman Loki The Guy with the Arrow - no - the Phoenix - no - The Falcon - he's played by Liam Neeson Chris Pratt Captain America "They go for a picnic and everyone disappears" Thanos and his One Child Policy - He wanted to retcon this and clarify that he does not think that Thanos is an Av...

 That title only works if you say it out loud and pronounce boules correctly (and I'm not even sure about that). I am a poet but I am not aware of this. The Rules of Boules Here's a brief explanation of the rules for anyone who hasn't heard of boules (probably most of my target demographic). Warning: badly drawn diagrams approaching. Ingredients I've forgotten the actual word. You will need: A number of players (you and friend(s)). We will call the number of people playing n. n x 2 balls. Each player needs two balls which should ideally be marked in some way (colour, stripes etc.). One smaller ball. This is the jack. A large (preferably flat-ish) playing area. This is sometimes called the green, mostly because it usually is. The diagrams will use two players, with the jack being black, player 1's balls being red and player 2's balls being blue. Object Get your balls (or boules) closer to the jack than the other player. Gameplay Firstly, one player throws the jac...

 Listen up, let me tell you a story The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air - 4 A story that you think you've heard before The Simpsons Movie - 4 We know you know our names Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back - 4, 8 And our fame Fight Club - 4 And our faces Aladdin - 4, 5 All about the glories Ferris Beuller's Day Off - 4 And the disgraces Monty Python and the Holy Grail - 5 I'm done, 'cos all this time Spongebob Squarepants - 5 I've been just one word in a stupid rhyme Looney Tunes - 4  So  I picked up a pen Deadpool - 4 And a microphone The Holy mountain - 4, 5 History's about to get overthrown Robin Hood: Men in Tights - 4 Just thought I'd diversify my audience a bit. Granted, it could be considered false advertising; this post is not about musicals and is even less about Six . Most of the above screenshots came from this video . Preface: For the record, I came up with this idea completely independently, but I've since discovered that at least one person has come up w...

This is an offshoot of another post; my brief history of Ratatouille: The Musical . This post replaces Part 5 but is its own post because it is best to divide it into its own separate sections. There are multiple references in this post to the full version of the Ratatouille musical including timestamps. They refer to this video . Disclaimer: This is not a review, but it does contain some (constructive) criticism. Remy is not a ratatouille So firstly, re the  Remy, the ratatouille, Controversy - The way they get around this is  not  what Emily suggested ( see the other blog ). They instead use it to reference (SPOILER ALERT) Remy's restaurant at the end,  La Ratatouille . This is one way around it, but IMO it doesn't matter.  Most people won't care, just like they don't care that the list of colours in  Joseph and the unnecessarily long title   contains FIVE different shades of brown (brown, ochre, fawn, chocolate, russet), FOUR shades of red (red, sca...

This is the content warning for an interactive adventure. To play from the start,  click here .  THIS INTERACTIVE STORY IS RATED 12 FOR ADULT THEMES IMDb has a useful system called Parent's Guide , which I used when writing my Content Advisory for the play Magic Goes Wrong  (link goes to my review) It splits the content warnings into helpful sections, which I will also use in this content warning. Of course, there are spoilers in this; but I have tried to keep them as out of context and spoiler-free as possible. There will now be a break in case you want to avoid spoilers: Sex and Nudity A scene takes place in the Red Light District. The game does not explain what this is Violence and Gore Numerous references to the mafia Some characters inferred (but not explicitly stated) to have killed someone in the past Profanity References are made to the Red Light District . The game does not explain what this is The word ' boudoir ' is used. The game does not explain what this is...

Recently, some of my extended family members asked if they could see my blog. I thought that a good idea would be to send them to my About Me post , but then I checked it and it contained no links! Therefore, I had the idea to create a new post with links to important posts: My Favourite Post My Most Popular Post  (the name of that post is one of the cleverest jokes I've ever written) A Post of All my Favourite Play Reviews Tangents; The Interactive Game I Made My Christmas Playlist A Self-Referential Post A Random Link (Click if You Dare) Ideas for quiz rounds

This post contains the answers to the cryptic bands quiz;  you can access the quiz here . Kaiser Chiefs The Rolling Stones Radiohead Blondie Daft Punk Toto Pink Floyd The Beatles Def Leppard Arctic Monkeys Check out other ideas for quiz rounds .