Month: April 2004

  • Las Vegas

    Las Vegas is a silly, trashy, and fun US series that I’ve been watching via the net. I enjoy it. Sky One has just started showing it, but it’s shorn of Elvis’ Little Less Conversation theme tune, with some feeble replacement. Someone screwed up on the international rights there. Or else Sky are too cheap…

  • Barenaked Ladies

    My Canadian music week continued earlier this evening with the brilliant Barenaked Ladies. They are quite simply one of the most fun groups around. And don’t think they’re not talented either; from drummer to bass to keyboards/accordian, they’re exceptional musicians. The one track that just about everyone knows is the radio friendly “One Week”, but…

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  • The Return of Ivor the Engine

    Oliver Postgate (mastermind of many classic kids TV series including Bagpuss and The Clangers) is returning with new Ivor the Engine films to promote the Beeb’s digital Welsh channel BBC2W. These shorts had better end up on the net where the rest of us can see them!

  • Cowboy Junkies

    The Cowboy Junkies have a new album out at the end of next month, and are on a brief tour in the UK and Europe before heading back off to North America for a larger tour. I’m a massive Junkies fan, and one thing I was always sure of. A band like that would never…

  • Aardvarks

    I do get more than my fare share of strange mobile phone calls. It’s not because I’m being targeted by a stalker (at least I don’t think I am). It’s because my name begins with “A”, and so who do you think is top in mobile phonebooks? It just takes a loose mobile in a…

  • Sportka “Non” Viral Email

    Hmm. One week a viral email appears for the Ford Sportka in which a cat is seemingly beheaded. Bad taste from some European division of Ford. Er, no, because there’s a link to this site (doesn’t work at time of writing). Today’s Mediaguardian carries this piece (free registration required) in which the Chief Executive of…

  • ID Cards Trial

    Blunkett continues to push for these stupid ID cards, and now has a trial underway with 10,000 volunteers. Exactly what a trial with volunteers is going to prove I don’t know? I daresay that there won’t be too many terrorists or illegal immigrants rushing to queue up for this. So what can we expect? Well…

  • The British Museum Isn’t Falling Down

    Random conversations heard on trains recently: #1 A family are travelling into London. The mother’s French, the father English, and the kids seem bilingual. However, the family seems to live in France, and hence they’re doing the touristy thing with some English relatives, and are taking the kids to the British Museum. The mother is…

  • We won the league, at White Hart Lane

    Champions!

  • So Why…

    does no channel repeat Remmington Steele?

  • Move Over Big Ron

    Never mind Ron Atkinson’s atrocious outburst, this is far worse. This bloke runs a national newspaper…