Like Clive James, minus the experience, technique, fame or figure.
Getting out to London’s former Millennium Dome – now ambiguously named “The O2″, like a selection of other venues around the continent – is always an exercise carried out with a sense of wistful resignation. You know there’s nothing empirically good to do out there, and there’s the vague likelihood that it’ll be unecessarily difficult to get back again if everything doesn’t go EXACTLY to plan. However it is one of London’s only 20,000+ seater venues, and they keep putting the big gigs on there. So when one manages to …
Read the full story »Wow. I just checked to see what blog entries I’d left unfinished lately, and spotted one from early May detailing how I’d been too busy to write about anything and giving dotpoints of the sort of thing that’s been going on round here.
Of course, as is now plainly obvious, I’ve been so busy I haven’t had a chance to finish the post.
There you go – self-referential supporting evidence.
Now – HTC Desire, or iPhone 4?
I tell ya what, if ever you’re feeling short of the luuuurve I can definitely recommend signing up with a Facebook account, and having a birthday. My inbox today looks a little like this:
You guys seriously rock. It’s humbling, and you’re all awesome. And it’s gonna take ages to respond to each one, but y’know – me’ mum taught me to be polite.
Special mention to Douggy for the best gift (so far) today: this handsome Virtual Spatula.
OK, so you know sometimes how you get a weekend pretty much at home to yourself (other than going out to a picnic in a pub, and then down to Greenwich to farewell some friends who are moving back to Australia)? Well, here’s what I did.
As well as tidying my room up, I went looking on YouTube for videos of people playing the Super Mario Brothers theme tune.
OK, so it turns out that many people on the planet have recorded themselves recreating this masterpiece in various forms — there are …
I’ve previously waxed cynical about all-star comedy gigs for charities: a couple of the smaller ones have been fun, such as the MIND Comedy night at Leicester Square Theatre (although an element of the buzz there was because Daniel Kitson was on the bill), or the No Sweat! gig at the Cross Kings in Kings Cross (aside from the inept compering and the conspiracy theorist speaker, Andrew O’Neill, Stewart Lee and Josie Long really brought it home), and the mid-size ones were amusing enough (OrangAID was a fairly unspectacular bill …
I’m still here, don’t panic.
Once again the ever present problem rears its head where there’s so much going on and so many cool things to do & people to see that there’s not time to blog about any of it.
Currently I’m sitting in Singapore’s Changi Airport trying not to spend any money, and desperately trying not to strangle the exceptionally loud little turd running around about 1.5 metres to my 5-o’clock. You’d think he’d be tired by now, given how long he’s been doing that. I assure you, it’s not …
Jason loves experiencing life & getting to know people. Professionally he’s in the Internet business, and loves the way it can be used to do almost anything. He occupies his spare time doing most things that present themselves as possible, such as abseiling down the side of a hospital, attending Crufts, redefining the sport of snowboarding, and morris dancing. His passions include live music (all forms), ludicrously expensive whisky, and t-shirts. Mmmmm… t-shirts… He is really impressed by people who do science.
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