Erratum
Tom LennonAfter all that trouble I went to last night writing a fairly lengthy post about the late anti-Establishment comic George Carlin and his Supreme Court-baiting […]
The Magnificent Seven
Tom LennonGeorge Carlin was part of a very fine and very respectable American tradition – that of the painfully funny and dangerously smart freethinking foul-mouth. […]
Insane in the Membrane
Tom LennonAll that talk in my previous post about meaningless corporate jargon reminded me of an incident that happened some years ago, whilst I was working […]
Only Forward
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“Yet more than all this, the really lethal thing about the whole language of business – is that it is so brainlessly upbeat. […]
The Plastic Beer Skiff Snake
Tom LennonOver the years I’ve seen many jaw-droppingly odd things happen at gigs. I went to an Eric Clapton concert in 1988 where the person […]
‘Champagne for my real friends, real pain for my sham friends’
Tom LennonThat, in case you don’t know, is a Waiticism – a quote by the legendarily quotable singer-songwriter Tom Waits. Like many […]
Books, etc
Tom LennonI don’t normally do these things, but here’s a book meme I nabbed from Rol.
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Flu Fighters
Tom LennonWell, I didn’t get around to writing a proper review of last Saturday’s absolutely Goddamn awesome Foo Fighters gig at Wembley […]
Fook!
Tom LennonClare and I went to see the Foo Fighters at Wembley last night. It was at very short notice: we were given […]
Anger Management Class
Tom LennonWhen trying to describe a particularly stressful event to someone, I’ll often say that I was experiencing a “David Banner changing-a-tyre-in-a-thunderstorm moment.” […]