Archive for the 'Luvvies' Category
The story about Linda Lusardi dialling 999 because she was stuck in traffic on her way to a panto makes me laugh on so many levels. Of course, it’s the usual fare we’ve come to expect at this time of year from the emergency services, as they seek to instruct us on the wrongness of [...]
Filed under: Commuting, Entertainment, Luvvies, Time-Wasters, being chippy, motoring, narcissism, weasels | 4 Comments
BBC1 – I couldn’t be bothered to get into Damages, which some (including the Radio Times editor) have raved about. I recorded the first episode, but then didn’t pay attention to it when I played it back. I’ve never liked Glenn Close, and I’m always wary of the things critics rave on about, stuff like [...]
Filed under: BBC, Culture, Entertainment, Luvvies, SF, TV, Television, media studies, sci-fi, science fiction, secret girlfriends | 2 Comments
My Case I Rest
A short while ago, I had a little rant about newspapers, reserving special ire for the columnists, who regularly produce their 1000 words or so, regardless of whether they have anything interesting to say. And they always end up so bereft of ideas that they start writing a column about writing the column. They’re like [...]
Filed under: Luvvies, TV, Television, Time-Wasters, Travel, being chippy, media studies, motoring, weasels | 5 Comments
Tags: newspapers
Liar, Liar…
“All my exes owe back taxes”
The fire service were called earlier to deal with a fire in the vicinity of Heather Mills’ pants. The full text of the judge’s decision is available to read (PDF). Here are some highlights.
Paragraph 15: The husband’s evidence was, in my judgment, balanced. He expressed himself moderately though at [...]
Filed under: BBC, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Character, Conspiracy Theories, Entertainment, Luvvies, Time-Wasters, being chippy, narcissism, weasels | 3 Comments
If that’s a gagging order…?
QFD: Quelle Fashion Disaster
Poor old Heather Mills emerged from court today wearing a cobbled-together outfit: some kind of suit made from remnants of other clothing. She’s reduced to sewing together pieces of her old clothes because she’s been left penniless by her divorce settlement. She gets to keep the family caravan in Wales and Evil [...]
Filed under: Arrested Development, Baby Boomers, Beatles, Character, Commuting, Conspiracy Theories, Entertainment, Luvvies, Time-Wasters, ambitions in life, being chippy, clothes, narcissism | 1 Comment
I’ve previously noted Shelby Lynne’s tendency to reinvent herself, so it’s not unexpected that when you visit ShelbyLynne.com at the moment, there is no mention of her previous record, Suit Yourself, or the one before that, or indeed any of the records she’s released since abandoning her short-lived country career and turning to blue eyed [...]
Filed under: 1960s, 1970s, Entertainment, Luvvies, Music, Nostalgia, TV, Television, The Seventies, heroes | 1 Comment
Scam, Blam, Thankyou Stan
Llewtrah’s entry about an attempted phone scam prompted me to produce an entry about the various phone-in and other scandals that have afflicted the media industry in recent weeks.
On one level, it’s entertainment of the highest order to see people falling on their swords all over the place, and admitting what I suspected all along, [...]
Filed under: BBC, Conspiracy Theories, Education, Entertainment, Luvvies, Radio, being chippy, media studies | Leave a Comment
Heads will roll
So the BBC are supposedly sacking some producer from one of their digital-only minority interest radio channels as payback for the whole faked quiz fiasco. It’s like the butterfly effect, innit? Someone on Blue Peter outrageously fakes the winner of a competition, and several months later a production drone from one of the most obscure [...]
Filed under: Luvvies, Radio, media studies | 4 Comments
Philby Jag
Mount Ararat
I’ve probably had an interest in the Cambridge spies since childhood, based on the way my mother would talk about them. It should have been ancient history by the time I was growing up in the 60s, but of course Philby didn’t defect until 1963, and spy stories by their very nature have a [...]
Filed under: 1960s, Character, Conspiracy Theories, Culture, Luvvies, Perception, TV, Television, being chippy, paranoia | 2 Comments
Tags: espionage, politics, spies
Short Attention Spam
I’ve been moderating comments for a while now, and never regretted the decision to start doing so. I also edit what appear to be legitimate comments (i.e. they have something to do with the post they’re on) if I suspect someone is just after a free link/ad. I just remove the link. If offence is [...]
Filed under: Conspiracy Theories, Luvvies, being chippy, hypochondria, notes and queries, omens and portents, searches | 4 Comments
Tags: comments, idiots, spam