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Television
The drug of the nation?
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09.01.02Jings, Cribbens and Help Ma BoabLook, I might as well come out with it: I'm an old fogey at heart.There's evidence to support this, too: where I used to go out carousing until the wee small hours during the week, I'm now more likely to be moderate and in bed by midnight - even on the weekends. Where I used to listen to shouty music and stomp around the flat, these days I'm more partial to something chilled which helps me wind down. And where I used to spend just about every weekend redesigning my site and being the wild young twentysomething noomeejahoor that I've ...
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08.24.02GerrawayP: What are you watching? Me: The Lost World P: Ah right. Not the Jurassic Park one? Was Bob Hoskins in that? Me: No, this is the other one - made for TV. It's by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle P: Oh right Me: He wrote the Sherlock Holmes books P: [beat] ... Really? Gerraway. Me: Yeah P: [grinning] ...That reminds me - you must tell me more about this HTML you keep banging on about... Me: [blush]Sometimes I forget that P's got a bloody good education. Oops.* Talking about HTML like that is a sort of running joke in our household. It stems from a wedding I was at a ...
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08.07.02Recent Media RoundupReading McCarthy's Bar - Pete McCarthyI bought this under the curious impression that it was actually written by John McCarthy - seemed a bit of a departure for him, but it transpired that it was in fact by travel writer and radio presenter Pete McCarthy instead. PM decided to visit all the pubs in Ireland which bear his name (following the first rule of travel: "Never pass a bar which has your name on it" - if I ever find a bar called Meg's, I'll be sure to pop in for a pint). An easy read, which makes me want to ...
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08.06.02You remind me of a man…Impressionists (not the Monet kind). I just don't get them. Rory Bremner, Alastair MacGowan, all of that lot - actually, come to think of it, I can only remember those two, plus that woman (Janet something? Fay something?) and that rubber-faced bloke from the eighties, Phil Cool. Are there any more?Anyway. Impressionists. Bah. They bug me because I don't really see the point. Watching someone pretending to be someone else, to me is sort of like watching a monkey with a hat on, and going "ooh, it's almost like watching a real person...except obviously a real person wouldn't drink from ...
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07.24.02Hit Any Key to ContinueWatching QVC (I'm ill, OK? I can be excused) I am stunned into silence at the demonstration of a PC keyboard which has all sorts of hot keys, allowing you to use your computer without resorting to drop-down menus, mouse clicks and other GUIs developed over the past twenty five years. No no, now, instead of merely pressing, say, ctrl+z to undo something, or using the edit>undo drop down menu, you can simply press the "undo" button. And to save a document, just press "save", or to switch between apps, press the "switch between apps" button. Is ctrl+s or alt+tab ...
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04.29.02Really Jonathan? That’s wonderful!P thinks that it's impossible to talk for twenty minutes about a pair of unfashionable crinkle drawstring trousers, but he's wrong. We've just discovered that we can access QVC, and they've managed it perfectly easily - in fact, I rather fancy that the presenters (permatanned, vacant behind the eyes) could probably go on all night if required. Please, won't someone buy these ugly trousers and shut them up?But that's it. We've got QVC and BBC4 and BBCi (and other random digital channels, c/o of a digital box left behind by our kiwi chum which he got from one of his ...
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04.29.02Dead Man WalkingSo the other night I was lying in bed at half two in the morning watching Weekend at Bernies II (as you do), when it suddenly occured to me that actor Terry Kiser must surely have the most bizarre career in movie history, given that his major starring roles to date have both involved him a) not speaking and b) playing a dead body. That reminds me; I've always wondered about the bit part actors on Casualty and ER and the like who sit in pumping head-wound silence, or quietly expire on a gurney. Do they get to put that on ...
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04.10.02So, recently, I mentioned thatSo, recently, I mentioned that there was some filming going on on our street. I automatically assumed that it was for a drama series, or similar, because that's all that seems to be on the telly at the moment, apart from news and soaps. Turns out I was wrong. There's something else on after all. No, not instead of dramas and soaps. Between them. So there I was, idly getting my weekly dose of ER, when the adverts came on. Blah blah blah washing up liquid, yadda yadda yadda new car, great shampoo, no more piles, whatever. Then suddenly, small boy and mother ...
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11.08.01SwapShop"Hey you, get ready, get on your feet, you're looking good, so hit this street, it's you we wanna see, so get down to seventy-three..."or alternatively"It's the daring, dazzling, death defyingly dull, devastatingly dangerous, delectable, delicatessen-able, divinely decadent Sandwich Quiz!"I just popped out for lunch (Veggie lasagne on a brown bap, since you ask. No, I'm not sure why, either. I asked for a baked potato with hummous...) and Kim Goody popped into my head, for reasons I'm not entirely clear of. And then Neil 'mullet' Buchanan joined her, and then Sandi 'angry dwarf' Toksvig, and then the next thing ...
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11.07.01Sky BurialBrian Blessed recently appeared on the Channel 5 show It's Your Funeral (and you'll die if you want to), in which B-Grade celebrities talk to an earnest, horsey woman about how they'd like to be seen off. According to Taj's mention in Luke's comments (which have barfed, and this is why I'm writing here instead), he stated that he'd like a Tibetan Sky Burial, please. (Further investigation reveals that Brian Blessed actually requested a Viking funeral. Much more fitting, wouldn't you say?) (Found in the process of looking for a suitable link: Viking Burial: where pop culture is set on ...
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