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I was having a conversation the other day about how I don't like clowns. I'm attributing this morbid dislike to the Stephen King book IT - but I think it runs deeper than that.

In a curiously random way I was watching a commercial for Halo 3 on Simon Law's blog and it reminded me of the D&AD award winning promo for The Bloody Circus - a week of documentaries in Channel 4 (UK) about the war in Iraq.



I haven't seen Halo on screen - I gather it is a thing of wonder. Never been much of gamer. But it interests me that games make more money than movies. I suppose, if you take Brad and Angelina off the payroll it makes economic sense.

Wasn't Peter Jackson supposed to be making a movie from the game?

It probably was going to star Brangelina - which left nothing in the budget for talent.

C'est la geurre.

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