Loving the work of Maria Schneider (staff writer at the Onion), her web-comic strips over at Pathetic Geek Stories are inspired by user submitted geeky childhood/teen confessionals that she illustrates, quite brilliantly. Setting up a dialogue with the individuals who submit their stories enables her to bring extra realism to each comic, thus making them hard not to identify with. Hating that I’m terrified to submit my own, as I do have some terribly embarrassing (thus humorous!) stories locked deep inside.

Loving Play.com, especially their fast delivery. Admittedly this site could use some work, especially in regards to the structure of it’s categorisation system, I actually use Amazon to browse but Play to purchase. The reason for this is because Play offer such good value for money and complete transparency, meaning that you known exactly how much you’re going to pay for an item before you’ve even added it to your shopping basket (as postage is included in each item price, rather than added on at the end). Being able to view the site in Euro is also a huge benefit, I hate trying to shop online and converting currency as I go along, it’s too messy. Hating Playtrade, half of the items I have tried to purchase from these “Playtraders” have turned out as being out of stock because they don’t update their inventories often enough.

Loving that the IFI is finally showing Grindhouse – the Planet Terror and Death Proof double-feature, including all the fake and fantastic movie trailers in the middle. Hating that it’s a Saturday and Sunday matinée showing only. Walking out into the light of day after these will not be pleasant.