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On the subject of writing stuff and being funny
Update: there’s been a change of venue for the Sunday night stand-up comedy show. I’m just awaiting final confirmation and will update the details ASAP. I’ve been a bit quiet as of late due to a couple of reasons. Firstly, I’ve been writing an article for a new magazine that my pals Jon Bounds and [...]
The Minister of Information Returns
Gil Scott-Heron’s new album I’m New Here has been on heavy rotation since I bought it earlier in the week. It’s an absolute blinder, real return-to-form stuff that I heartily and unequivocally recommend. If you fancy listening to it yourself, an official streamed version from Scott-Heron’s new label, XL Recordings, is available online. Here it [...]
“All in the game yo, all in the game”
I came home from work today to find my wonderful stepdaughter Lily on the Internet. She was visiting the Disney Channel website, and – as one of those unfortunate people burdened with a certain kind of political temperament – I found myself experiencing an involuntary muscle spasm somewhere in the region of my social conscience [...]
Sesame: Life on the Street
This evening’s Archive Hour on Radio 4 celebrated the 40th anniversary of the seminal children’s TV show Sesame Street. The programme featured healthy dollops of insight about the visionary goals that underpinned the show and how the Children’s Television Workshop revolutionised children’s TV through the medium of animation, bad puns and felt glove puppets. The [...]
My Top 20 Albums of the Decade
20. Sufjan Stevens – Illinois (2005) Sufjan’s Prairie State I wish he did all fifty (Yes, I fell for it) 19. Jeffrey Lewis – It’s the Ones Who’ve Cracked That The Light Shines Through (2003) Anti-folk hero Serves comic stripped down delight Raw, honest and fun 18. PJ Harvey – Stories from the City, Stories [...]
Lord of the Frogger
In the Seinfeld episode The Frogger, the eponymous Jerry and his “short, stocky, slow-witted and bald” best friend George Costanza visit a soon-to-be closed down pizza parlour they used to frequent at high school. They discover that the owner still has the old Frogger arcade game they used to play as kids, and the Frogger [...]
Treme Trailer
HBO have just released a teaser trailer for Treme, the new series from The Wire’s creator David Simon. The show is set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and centres around a group of local musicians. It stars Wire alumni Wendell Pierce and Clarke Peters (who played Bunk Moreland and Lester Freamon in the Baltimore-set TV [...]
Ulysses on the Buses: Erdington
The following is a brief extract from the recently unearthed sequel to James Joyce’s Ulysses, entitled ‘Twolysses’. This rigidly structured chapter was to be written as a sequence of questions and answers, and an early version originally appeared in a 1921 edition of Aston Villa’s match day souvenir programme. WHAT DIVERGENT COURSES DID STEPHEN DEDALUS [...]
Happy Christmas to you all (and that includes YOU!)
(Through The Viewfinder photograph of yours truly courtesy of Birmingham Blogfather and TTV virtuoso Mr Pete Ashton).
Curb Your Indifference
Over the last couple of years Clare has become a big fan of the seminal 90s sitcom Seinfeld. This, it must be said, is largely my fault. I’m also a fan of Curb Your Enthusiasm, the mighty meta-cringecom from Seinfeld’s co-creator Larry David. Despite my best efforts, however, Clare has somehow managed to remain immune [...]
Shatner and the Old Vic
Courtesy of my good pal Jez, here’s Lord William of Shatner advertising 80′s 8-bit home computer, the VIC-20: I know that Captain Kirk was promoted to Admiral in the Star Trek movies, but I don’t recall any mention of him being made a Commodore. Maybe that was TJ Hooker.
Our Man Iannucci
The satirical comedy The Thick of It – the third series of which is currently being broadcast by the Beeb – is officially my favourite TV programme of the year. This is quite an achievement considering this household doesn’t watch TV anymore. Isn’t the BBC iPlayer a wonderful thing? The Thick of It is produced [...]
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