Links and stuff from between June 15th and June 17th
Just what tickled my fancy in the last few days…
- David Cameron in trouble for fake German accent Video – Yahoo! News UK – What a cock.
- BBC NEWS | Wales | Tories to end free prescriptions – Doesn't sound like a vote-winner to me.
- Alastair Campbell: not in my name! « Harpymarx – 'Again, when it comes to mental health, not in my my name Alastair Campbell!'
- ‘I feel sick with myself when he touches me’ – Guardian Weekly – Who needs the BNP? part 35,353…
- Spielberg "Cracks Story" For Indiana Jones 5 – Den of Geek – Haven't we had enough bad news this week?
- Questions for the BNP: part four | Pickled Politics – Social and legal impact of a BNP government (cont…)
- The Curmudgeon: The English Progressive Tradition – 'We mustn't change the voting – FPTP is such fun, And causes such hilarity concerning how we're run…'
- Carol Ann Duffy leaps into expenses row with first official poem as laureate – Finally a poet I could get into. I haven't enjoyed a poem since 'Why Patriots Are a Bit Nuts In the Head'.
- How 10p-a-minute government helplines cripple those most in need – New Labour: helping the most vulnerable once again. Did I tell you the Kinnocks have six state pensions between them?
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Posted on June 17th, 2009 at 4:53pm under Miscellaneous dross
I’m not sure if it counts as a poem, but my favourite pronouncement on politics remains that of e e cummings: a politician is an arse on which everyone has sat except a man.
I kind of enjoyed the fourth Indy film. Yeah, I know that puts me in a very small minority but I felt it was extremely clever. Just as the first films were an homage to 30s swashbucklers and adventure matinees, so the later setting of the fourth one means it made sense to write it as an homage to 50s B-movies.
Actually, I didn’t just “kind of enjoy it”, I really really enjoyed it. Sorry.
O/T but have you seen this*? The journalist who outed GWAOTM has decided that Chicken Yoghurt is your pseudonym. Apparently, clicking on “About” was beyond her.
http://technology.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/tech_and_web/the_web/article6543067.ece
Brilliant.
What a stupid and spoiled little brat she is.
Poet you can get into? Give Michael Donaghy a try. (Declared interest: my slightly dead brother-in-law).
A shameless plug of sorts…
http://www.virginmediashorts.co.uk/films/film/the-stall/
Is Justin on holiday??
Well, he’s twittering away like there’s no tomorrow – and, since he’s doing it on Nuclear Reaction, perhaps there isn’t. Or maybe the Murdoch Times is getting ready to out him as a Brighton-based writer called Justin McKeating and he just can’t face us at the moment.
If there actually was no tomorrow, would you really want to spend your last day Twittering?
He’s stopped now. Either tomorrow will arrive on schedule, or he heard me and is being coy.
Or the last twenty-four hours are upon us.
Given the weather we’re having at the moment, I’m not sure I’d mind if they were. I’ve heard that Hell is cold.
Maybe he’s out painting in Brighton?
Doh, I was just coming to bring you late tidings of the Anna Mikhailova piece. Isn’t she a piece of work? I reckon you can be very proud of that!
I liked your lead item about Cameron best.