I’m not a big tv watcher. Using Andy’s Calculation, there’s very little to watch. The Calculation goes like this: 99% of our 637 tv channels show 99% rubbish approximately (within 3 significant figures), 99% of the time. And I’m only interested in the remaining 1%. So we don’t ‘have the telly on’. Never. We turn – Read More-
I hate the rain. Tennis just got cancelled. The lawn can’t be mowed. The car’s wet. And we won’t be able to do lots of ‘things’ like walking, gardening, all those -ings that get done on bank holiday weekends. Another bank holiday weekend. The fifth this week. So it seems. But… and yet… though… if – Read More-
I generally avoid movies with the word ‘tomorrow’ in the title. I know; its a perfectly innocuous word, an everyday word, even an every-tomorrow word. But it has deep implications in the world of cinema. Because its a euphemism for ‘the future’. In fact it really is about the future, just normally not such a – Read More-
So sang the Clash in 1982 on the Combat Rock album, one of my all time top-whatever. It was a protest against Iran’s banning of music. All of it. No music. Its subversive. Degenerates the masses. Corrupts the populus. Evil westernism. Ban it. And they did, as part of the Islamisation of that fine (??) – Read More-
Yaya Toure; best player in the league? Ground-breaking midfielder who is the new ‘complete’ player?? He’s big, very big, yet fast, and nimble, has quick feet, wonderful passer, goalscorer extraordinaire, moves like the wind, immovable force, the engine that makes Manchester City tick. And a total fucking tosser. Message to Yaya: if you want to – Read More-
I try to be politically correct. I really do. But, despite all my efforts, its just so confusing, such a minefield, so complicated. Knowing who can be insulted and who can’t, what you can say about minorities, races, nations and even genders. Its all so full of mixed messages, and we need clarification. And by – Read More-
To all our friends at Arsenal for their wonderful victory against Hull on Saturday. Well done to club, players, fans and everyone concerned with that team over the years. That was the most sincere and difficult sentence I’ve written since: “I will never ogle, leer at or objectify women again, unless I really have to – Read More-
Came home last night and, whilst trying to digest the biggest ice-cream ever consumed (and the best, if you’re at all interested) we turned on the tv. And because we’re in God’s own country, instead of the ‘Meet the Parents’ or ‘Grease 2’ or ‘Die Hard AGAIAIAIAN’, we were blessed with Django Unchained. Ok, lot – Read More-
I know, I know, England’s having a heatwave, hotter that 1936, sunnier than Bahrain, warmer than the toaster, eggs frying on car bonnets in Esher, blah, blah, blah. So it seems a bit ironic to book a last-minute break ‘to the sun’ whilst it seems to be more of a busman’s holiday leaving the sun – Read More-
Satnav is just another sodding screen to demand our attention. We leave our computers, occasionally, walk around staring at smart phones and then get in the car. And turn on the satnav. Well, you probably do. I get in with a map. And notes. Scribbled down from some direction site and relating to places I – Read More-