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A noble heart will always capitulate to reason.

This one was taken in October. He already looks at least 2 years older!

In anger nothing right nor judicious can be done.

WHAT!?!?!?

Knowledge is knowledge

I am deadly serious when I tell you that today's comic is an accurate representation of the final presentation I witnessed at the recent international conference in Sydney a couple of weeks ago. Moreover, it reflects a number of presentations I have seen over the years, but hopefully none that I have delivered myself.

Film is not the art of scholars, but of illiterates.

Henry, Ezra, Myself and Werner Herzog (the source of today's title) are all men not afraid of making the odd controversial and inflammatory assertion. As evidenced by the Itsy Bitsy furore, I'm happy to throw the cat amongst the pigeons and lock the gate for my own amusement. I thought that it might be fun to throw out to the crowd ten more outlandish beliefs that have got me into trouble over the past few years. You might even agree with me, or indeed have your own sacred cow to slay in the comments. Feel free to share. After the Beatles split up, Paul McCartney's solo work stacks up more favourably than John Lennon's. Dr Suess's books are tremendously ordinary . I don't think that Barack Obama is entirely sincere. Ian Curtis probably did the world of music a favour. The Dalai Lama is annoying. Robert De Niro equals "one trick pony". New gaming systems (Wii; Xbox, PS3) are infinitely better than the old ones (Atari 2600; Sega Master System; Super Nin...