First A is for Armageddon review!

30 Aug 2009
Independent on Sunday

An early contender for the perfect anti-Christmas present comes in the form of A is for Armageddon. This cheery tome catalogues in wittily illustrated and scarily accurate detail the different ways in which we're all going to die – everything from pandemic to food-chain collapse to asteroid attack. Buy now: the end of the world is nigh, you know... Lisa Markwell

£14.99, Square Peg

Read it here

Five Days to go ...

A is for Armageddon Website

I'm currently working on the Armageddon website. Hopefully I'll have it up and running by the time the book is published next week (Thurs 3rd Sept)

Keep calm and carry on ...

101.1 TTD No. 88 - Get Married Unusually (6) More Unusal Elements

I've been meaning to upload this post for ages and since we've finally got the wedding photos back it's spurred me on to finish the wedding posts.

When the guests arrived at the wedding venue they were each presented with a badge that, during the ceremony and drinks reception, served as a name tag, whereas at dinner, it served a different purpose.

We based the wedding on colour and being a designer I based the badges and place names on the Pantone colour chart and for a bonus at no extra cost we searched the internet for official paint shade names and tried to match our guests up with these names. HSz and I had real fun with this, some of the paint names are hilarious.

Dulux and Crown paints actually have colours called Banana Dream, Party Surprise, Bongo Jazz and Volcanic Splash amongst many other very funny names. Well, we thought they were, lets hope the guests did too ...

101.1 TTD No. 88 - Get Married Unusually (7) Pre-ceremony

Organising the wedding wasn't as stressful as friends and family had said it would be, this could be because we took over a year on and off to plan it ... or it may be down to the fact that we liked almost all of each others suggestions.

When it came to the ceremony I really wanted to lever some film music in and we agreed to play the movie tunes as part of the pre-ceremony, so as the guests gathered, the movie music played.

I've uploaded the music here. Can you guess the five films these pieces of music feature in?

Click here to hear ...

101.2 TTD No. 47 - Make your own badges

I've finally realised that I'm rubbish at blogging ... but I'm tworse at Twitter ...

101.1 TTD No. 57 See the All-time Greatest Films

The writer/director of such greats such as The Breakfast Club, Planes, Trains and Automobiles and Ferris Buellers Day Off died today. He leaves behind a lot of memorable movie quotes ...

...those aren't pillows!