You know you have a great girlfriend when... ... she uses phrases like seeping neck wound in her articles. Last night I finally got to meet Catherine Redfern, the person behind The F Word and very nice she was too. Also met another of the site's contributors, Holly, who stayed over and was very polite about my toast making skills this morning and the fact that I started playing music at the crack of dawn. But you want neck wound right? Jess has a piece on Neil Marshall's The Descent that you can read here.

I was interested to find out this film was directed by Neil Marshall, whose previous effort, Dog Soldiers, was a low budget werewolf flick. In that film, an all-male group of soldiers is led to its destruction by a woman who tempts them into the lair of her werewolf family. And it includes a really terrible time of the month joke, setting it miles apart from the much more interesting Ginger Snaps. Crassly, one of the chapter titles on the DVD edition of Dog Soldiers is 'All Women are Bitches'. So perhaps it is not surprising that the women in The Descent get in trouble because they go a step too far - they enter into the male territory of the explorer, and, despite a valiant effort, it beats them.

Awesome. I have quite a different take on The Descent but I've just made so many nice new female friends recently that I don't want to scare them off with one of my own vagina monologues... We also had a bit of bad news when last night we found out that Jess' grandfather, Bill, has been in hospital since Sunday. He's hopefully being released today so we'll be up there this weekend to see what's what. Jess' grandmother decided not to let us know "in case we worried"... nice of her to be concerned about us, but I've said it before and I'll say it again - this family is INSANE. Other odds and ends... Comments are now open on Blottered and there's a kind of open rant thing happening this weekend on Londonist if you fancy it. And guess what. DHL are still sucking Satan's cock instead of delivering MY STUFF. Maybe I'll just stay in Sweden. You don't get stared at for looking like the beardy one from ABBA out there and they know how to make a decent coffee too. [Music: Nuclear Assault - Game Over]