Pleased to have one less thing in common with the Wonder Stuff, I do love Elvis. I love the hillbilly cat and the jumpsuited entertainer, and to prevent disillusionment I find it fairly easy to avoid watching the films — it’s not as if they are in heavy rotation on our mainstream channels these days. [...]
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One Sunday, and Saturday, with Sidie
22 June 2010 – 1:27 am
I really can’t put my finger on where I first came across Frank Sidebottom, logic would dictate that I’d have spied him on one of his regular appearances on Number 73 but there aren’t any memories I can dredge up. I know I watched it every so often, but apart from the theme tune there’s [...]
The Passion of the Cripes
20 June 2010 – 3:31 pm
If you’ve watched an England game on telly this World Cup, apart from a feeling of ennui matched only it seems by Emile Heskey as he spends another match mostly inhaling the pitch, you’ll have gained two things: The knowledge that what the England team lack is passion, monotone decide-to-be-Irish pundit Andy Townsend will have [...]
World Cup Willies
25 May 2010 – 3:04 pm
I had a little bit of a paddy on Twitter yesterday after a slew of people were moaning about “the football”. “The football” in this instance being a fairly easily avoidable pre-World Cup friendly (the pubs would not have been packed, it was isolated on ITV). I just didn’t see how it was worthy of [...]
The Electric, Birmingham
3 December 2009 – 12:10 pm
The Electric, Birmingham Originally uploaded by new folder
Why haven’t newspaper clichés evolved?
30 October 2009 – 4:47 pm
There’s a lovely new site doing the rounds called Glum Councillors it’s dedicated to collecting: “images of councillors looking glum whilst pointing at holes in the road, wearing hard hats or presenting oversized cheques.” Uploaded with plasq‘s Skitch! Sites like this and Lolitics are parodying the politicians (and wanabees) — but the poses and the [...]
WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s
6 July 2009 – 11:52 pm
WWIII Propaganda: Torrent Your MP3s Originally uploaded by Brian Lane Winfield Moore
Play him off keyboard cat
7 May 2009 – 4:34 pm
New meme discovery: which has lead to “Play Him Off, Keyboard Cat”, where Keyboard Cat tidies up awkward social situations: More, more, again, again here.
Worthless Piece of Crap
14 April 2009 – 10:44 pm
A quick group blog we set up today, with the idea of getting to try new stuff — and trying to break it. Trying to hate it in the hope that that will be impossible, a possible cure for gadget lust: Worthless Piece of Crap
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