Category: Misc

We escape Valentine’s Day, and this morning an email drops in my inbox: “20% Off Mother’s Day Gift Ideas” It’s one after the other…

OK. I’ve been playing around with the commenting system on this site again. I know that in the past it’s been a bit of a pain, and it’s down to me to publish comments when I finally get around to seeing them. I’ve used a plugin called CommentChallenge by Jay Allen to force you to…

Think of the two most annoying and irritating people you can. Really, really irritating people. We’re talking the kind of people that make you long for the sound of fingernails on a blackboard. Got them? Now check out the back of this week’s Review section of the Independent on Sunday. Here are the two people…

Via Velorution, I loved this short film: The music’s still a temp track seemingly, and there’s an ealier cut (in colour) also on YouTube. It reminds me of a great French short called Argent Content featuring rollerskating bank robbers. Lots of bullet cam shots and plenty of central London in this video.

You may have noticed it snowed today. At least it did if you live in England or Wales. Here’s a photo of said snow that I took earlier. Anyway, the local news on BBC1 this evening had the usual travel chaos/schools closed story that’s par for the course on days like today. But it ended…

I always like to keep abreast of news of my namesake.

(Obviously – that’ll have been “national” in the sense of US national – but nevermind)

Every year, the residents of Lawson Way in Sheringham, Norfolk, put ever more elaborate Christmas light displays on in their small cul-de-sac. See more pictures of their “tasteful” street here.

Wasn’t this the most disappointing news of the weekend? Yesterday evening Five Live aired Fighting Talk: Any Other Business as a kind of broadcast pilot for a current affairs spin-off of the sports show. There’s another episode next Sunday. Richard Bacon did a good job hosting it, and alongside him were Stewart Lee, Rod Liddle…

So, on the way home this evening, I’m sitting across the seat from a smart looking gentleman. Except he’s munching on a pastie and isn’t bothered about getting crumbs all over his black suit. When he does notice them he just brushes them off in any direction – including mine! He’s also reading a copy…

Remember Trevor & Simon from Going Live and Live & Kicking? Well if you’d wondered what they were up to these days, I can tell you that Trevor is in a band called Sucker who were playing at the Bull and Gate in Kentish Town on Friday night before a friend’s band came on. This…

Following the photo the other day, this time around Westminster council “City Guardians” were leafleting last night at the intersection of Brewer Street and Great Windmill Street in Soho yesterday evening. Nonetheless, just metres away three tourists were being tempted into such a bar by a tall brunette. Evidently there’s a concerted effort to close…