Obligatory #BigotGate Post
Two reflective blog posts about (oh dear) bigotgate, that don’t entirely gel with my own thoughts, but are worth a read: Angry Mob – “You Can’t Talk About Immigration”: I was pretty certain that the...
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Lost 0613 – The Last Recruit
Jack’s sweetest moment in ages was last episode, where he deferred to Hurley. Now he asks Hurley’s permission to go and talk to non-Locke. It is a lovely moment. And now non-Locke admits what we had...
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Lost 0614 – The Candidate
So Jack saved Locke, and he thinks he’s a candidate for a surgery that Jack is developing. John Locke doesn’t want to be a candidate, though. He seems to recognise the phrase. Jack could do with...
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Lost 0616 – What They Died For
Jeremy Paxman is doing the full Morris, about the spree shootings earlier today, so it seems like as good a time as any to escape into the brighter, sharper world of Lost. Oh, yeah, I forgot…...
View ArticleTwitter Joke Trial – Template Email
Some of you may be following the case of Paul Chambers, and the #twitterjoketrial, and feel just as upset about the findings against him yesterday. Paul’s life has essentially been ruined because of a...
View ArticleThis Is How My Day Panned Out
…So today was an interesting one. Midway through the day I heard from David Wynne about a weird and unpleasant day he had at MCM Expo yesterday. He’d recorded some audio about it, ostensibly for us to...
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On Before Watchmen
(It should go without saying that what follows is just, like, what I think. I’m not an authority on this subject, but it looks like those are pretty thin on the ground anyway. So temper your reading...
View ArticleA Cultural Vanishing Point, A Generation Behind Us
When you’re a few years older than most of the people you socialise with, you get quite used to the odd temporal culture shock. Different kid’s TV, different music, these are the points of reference...
View ArticleNOT ADAM AND STEVE
I think you’ll find, if you check your Bible, that it was Adam and Eve, not Adam and Steve… …who were so corrupt, arrogant and incompetent that they couldn’t follow the one simple instruction handed...
View ArticleImpulse Buys for Early October
I am buying the heck out of these things right now. Total pay-day treat. Each thing comes with my absolute recommendation, and yeah, if you buy using the linky things, I do get a little kickback....
View ArticleA Free Background Check For Every Applicant
Eight or nine years ago, when my dad managed a small branch of a hire car firm in Cyprus, he told me that they now did web-searches of any potential employees, as an extra screening process. It was a...
View ArticleTube Strike Satire Stolen By Linkbaiter
There’s a post going round, at a site called Fullist, headlined “Tube Strike Ends After Commuters Take Matters Into Their Own Hands”. It’s totally stolen from The Daily Mash. Not “shared”, as per fair...
View ArticleDO Read The Bottom Half Of The Internet
Looked into this Talking Angela scare that’s going round, and it’s reminded me of something I recently thought about just, generally EVERYTHING online, especially following on from the Woody Allen...
View ArticleLess Than Two Thousand Words on Subtitles, Translations and Remakes
Conversation in the office has come round to television. Mainly, people are talking about two sorts of show: gritty European dramas that will eventually be remade with either an American or British...
View ArticleProtesting Too Much About Getty Images
When a business that is in the business of making money makes any move toward openness, I think of it as a pretty good thing, within the context of living in a society where everybody needs money to...
View ArticleShameless Post About Podcasts
There’s a podcast called The Chick Whisperer. It’s exactly what it sounds like. It has 60 ratings on iTunes. So I’d very much like it if you could listen to one or more of the podcasts I do, & go...
View Article“On Charlie Hebdo: A Letter To My British Friends” by Olivier Tonneau
A great post shared by Mhairi McFarlane about Charlie Hebdo – specifically about the historical context of the magazine, and more interestingly French culture and the relationship between extremism,...
View ArticleA Bigger Loss Than Anticipated
“A bigger loss than anticipated. You ask yourself where you live. It is a country of raised eyebrows, deep scepticism, and of keeping things as they are in case they get worse. It is a country that...
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