Posted in art, christmas_2009, entertainment, humour, made_our_own_fun, music, seasons, songs, time on December 24th, 2009 No Comments »
For those of you who haven’t bought it yet (and how could you not?) there’s a hidden track on the really quite remarkable—the only word for it—Christmas in the Heart by Bob Dylan. Here’s the lyrics to that track, Subterranean Homesick Blue Christmas, for your festive perusal. Merry Christmas, Mr Dylan!
Posted in holiday, humour, location, media, music, occupation, television, tourism on July 6th, 2009 No Comments »
Most of the days at our parents’ Breton cottage ended up with a lot of red wine and some DVDs. Given that the restaurants that didn’t close were a car journey away and only served meat with meat, it was a good solution to the problem of everyone enjoying their evening.
This also meant K. and [...]
Posted in art, entertainment, experience, here, humour, location, made_our_own_fun, oxford, plays, surprise on April 4th, 2009 4 Comments »
Oxfringe is huge this year, so huge that I can’t quite believe I had anything to do with it ages ago (and am quite glad I’m not having anything to do with it any more, having more than enough on my plate). There are dozens of acts, with John Hegley headlining at the Jac du [...]
Posted in art, blogs, entertainment, humour, made_our_own_fun, media, music, nu-media, radio, songs on February 17th, 2009 No Comments »
Adam & Joe have gently pushed a boundary of the BBC’s idiosyncratic content delivery mechanisms. By which I mean they’re giving you free stuff.
In a recent blog post, Adam Buxton idly pointed visitors at files on a file-sharing site which join together to make their entire new year’s eve programme: jingles, music and all. [...]
Posted in art, cliques, councils, cultural, establishment, humour, journalism, libraries, media, radio, society, television on January 3rd, 2009 3 Comments »
Radio
We’ve had possession of a digital radio for the festive season. Now, I’m happy to share in the Register’s skepticism about the future of DAB. Any cessation of transmissions on the FM band would be a disaster: not just for those who can’t afford to buy new kit, but for the environment, as a whole [...]
Posted in art, climate, crime, diary, entertainment, environment, establishment, experience, far_away, humour, location, made_our_own_fun, music, occupation, politics, society, writing on December 7th, 2008 5 Comments »
I was at the London climate march this weekend. It happened alongsize some hundred other marches across the world, including one in Poznan before the UN conference. Not that you would know from much of the mainstream media—BBC 6 Music was bleating about some hug-a-hoodie march in the morning before it started—although their web versions [...]
Posted in art, charity, climate, cliques, dickheads, enmity, entertainment, environment, establishment, humour, location, media, opinion, patriarchy, race, radio, rants, society on November 25th, 2008 4 Comments »
Yesterday, Sir Henry Woburn managed a wonderful juxtaposition on his early-morning Tory Funtime Hour. Shortly before 8am, he made a risky-for-the-BBC if banal racist joke about the Japanese—yes, he used the word “rubbery” at around 21.5 minutes—and followed that after the news with a complaint about the government introducing a new top rate of income [...]
Posted in art, cultural, entertainment, far_away, humour, idiom, language, literature, location, loyalty, media, radio, semantics, society on November 23rd, 2008 3 Comments »
K. and I were just listening to A Good Day for Airplay, a podcast from Montreal. For some time, assuming the presenter was from somewhere on the US east coast, I decided his accent was probably that of a native-born Israeli. But realising a few months back that it was actually Québecois made sudden sense [...]
Posted in art, articles, cliques, commerce, enmity, establishment, experience, humour, journalism, media, opinion, overheard, patriarchy, radio, rants, society on October 30th, 2008 3 Comments »
I love my Dad. For some time I couldn’t cope with him, and it looked to all intents and purposes like I didn’t love him at all. But now I can deal with him, and we have a lot more fun together. He can be a dickhead sometimes—and a racist to boot—but I love him. [...]
Posted in amerika, art, blogs, cliques, election, enmity, far_right, humour, journalism, lies, media, nu-media, politics, research, society, truth, understanding, wisdom_of_groups on October 25th, 2008 1 Comment »
Via Rachel North, I present the return of the most annoying people ever to grace drinks advertising, the Wassup crowd. Don’t click away: it’s worth watching as far as one of them trying to hang himself:
I envisage a followup video based on the Bud-Weis-Er frogs, with a take-your-pick permutation of high-up Republicans taking [...]
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