May 13, 2008
Lovely idea
I wasn’t going to comment on the election of that “tallest-dwarf” smug-faced buffoon into public office while I was in the US, except that now the deed is done, I am roundly looking forward to him being exposed for the zero-content publicity-seeking toffo timewaster that he probably is, and all his bold initiatives being exposed as the rather underthought and populist reactionary twaddle that they no doubt will reveal themselves to be in due course.
No-one comes here to read my whinging about politics, and the internet doesn’t need another blog pretending that London is Where It’s At, so I expect that most of the above can go unsaid.
However, I just spotted this on the BBC website:
I love the idea of news trees - juicy ripe news ready for plucking from the bough, or tumbling onto the heads of unsuspecting picnickers/budding physicists in Hyde Park. A bountiful harvest of golden news ready for pressing into RSS cider. Small birds making nests among headline twigs.
It’s like something that The Day Today (”slamming the wasps from the pure apple of truth”) would have come up with, and thus utterly at home in Boris’s manifesto.
Alas, the story itself reveals this fancy to be merely a typo, which is a shame because with all the stabbings and shootings in the city and the time we’re going to spend waiting for a Routemaster 2.0 bus that will never show up, it might be nice to have nugget of fresh news to nibble on (remember, editors recommend you have five a day!), harvested from a nearby tree, once in a while.
If we’re going to have news trees I think we should have rumour bushes as well.
The Beeb, bless their little cotton socks, is on a typo-filled roll today. Other ones spotted have also included calling the six foot bullock a cow…
I do like the idea of news apples though. Plenty of fibre, depending on the subject matter. Tabloids would probably turn out to be the mealy apples that look good until you bite into them. the Daily Mail would come complete with half a worm…
It has been a while since I dropped by, so am reading this after hearing Boris J commenting on his intention to ensure Londoners do not foot the (rising) bill for the Olympics. Boris might just surprise us. Personally, Gordon Brown has so far failed to meet the high expectations I had when he became PM. Perhaps Boris will confound his critics.