{"id":428,"date":"2006-09-30T19:11:54","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T02:11:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/30\/the-dork-report-for-september-30-2006\/"},"modified":"2023-04-07T15:28:58","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T19:28:58","slug":"the-dork-report-for-september-30-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/the-dork-report-for-september-30-2006\/","title":{"rendered":"The Dork Report for September 30, 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Like <em>Doctor Who<\/em>&#8216;s perpetually predicted feature film, the Genesis reunion rumors keep coming back. Now <em>The Sunday Mirror<\/em> cites a source claiming Phil Collins&#8217; recent divorce has cleared the way for a 3-piece Banks\/Collins\/Rutherford <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Genesis reunion world tour<\/span> (no longer online: sundaymirror.co.uk\/showbiz\/radar\/) in 2007. I call bullshit, but we&#8217;ll see.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/chadossman.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/10\/minifig.png\" alt=\"Me as a LEGO minifig\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Me as a LEGO Minifig, via The Mini-Mizer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The LEGO Fanlisting<\/span> (no longer online: fan.sebadrian.net\/lego\/extra.php), a collection of LEGO links, including these classic goodies:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Immortalize yourself as a LEGO &#8220;minifig&#8221; with <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">The Mini-Mizer<\/span> (no longer online: reasonablyclever.com\/mini). The above is the closest I could get to me.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The <a href=\"https:\/\/brickset.com\/sets\/853-1\/Car-Chassis\">LEGO set<\/a> I always wanted as a kid! 1977! Wow! I&#8217;m old!<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20111227230623\/http:\/\/www.uravan.com:80\/lego\/sounds.htm\">Field recordings<\/a> of LEGOs being dumped on tables. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Guinness Book of Records<\/em> belatedly recognizes <em>Doctor Who<\/em> as the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/entertainment\/5390372.stm\">longest-running science fiction television show<\/a> (it crossed that threshold, oh, decades ago).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Like Doctor Who&#8216;s perpetually predicted feature film, the Genesis reunion rumors keep coming back. Now The Sunday Mirror cites a source claiming Phil Collins&#8217; recent divorce has cleared the way for a 3-piece Banks\/Collins\/Rutherford Genesis reunion world tour (no longer online: sundaymirror.co.uk\/showbiz\/radar\/) in 2007. I call bullshit, but we&#8217;ll see. 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