Category Archives: media

Smile

Posted on August 6, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who was it who said, of literary criticism I think, “we murder to dissect”? Who said that writing about music was “dancing like architecture”? Well in the Guardian Guide on Saturday, Tim Jonze wrote about the comedian Josie Long. He … Continue reading →

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Time travel makes you queasy

Posted on July 22, 2007 by blogmywiki

Further to my pathetic joke “Is ITV 2+1 the same as ITV3?”… we were just watching ITV 2+1 and the announcer said “…and if you missed this programme, it’s just starting now on ITV 2+1″. You’re twisting my melon, man. … Continue reading →

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Jon Ronson… going up

Posted on July 7, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who’d have thunk it? Guardian magazine columnist Jon Ronson, who normally winds me up every Saturday morning, has shot up in my estimation. Apparently he recently told mad shyster David Shayler to ‘fuck off’. On Radio 4.

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Stealing in the name of the Time Lord

Posted on June 30, 2007 by blogmywiki

Another series of Doctor Who ends, and you gotta admire the boy Davies’s chutzpah. It’s great but he seems to have nicked half of it from Star Wars, and the other half from the Hitch-Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. As … Continue reading →

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Broken News

Posted on June 29, 2007 by blogmywiki

Bad stuff happened in London today, and as I attempted to impose some order on our office by finally, finally tidying up (shades of Withnail – “Don’t go in there!”). While I was tidying up I had News 24 on. … Continue reading →

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