Category: Random

Brief but heartfelt thanks are in order to Mr Pepper for being tremendously cool at a difficult time.

There’s something seriously wrong with British Television at the moment. Let’s see – random evening’s viewing (say tonight). What’s on at this precise moment? ITV: “Paul Grady’s America” (Paul Grady is Lily Savage‘s ‘real’ alter-ego – this programme includes an encounter with Julian Clary). Channel 4: “The Real Shirley Bassey”. Channel 5: “The Way We Were” (Epic Streisand movie). British broadcasting has become completely colonised by the sensibility of middle-aged ‘theatrical’-types. When did our culture become so ‘nice boy’ oriented? It’s like someone flicked the queer-switch, and suddenly all of England decided to identify as a fifty-year-old man with too much lippy and a ¬£20 wig.

Oh pancakes are so very interesting. Happy now?

Presenting for your delectation, The Saint of Webloggers.

Stephen Van Doren said something really nice to me in an e-mail so I decide to link to his site. This is not a request for more e-mail. I get too much as it is.

“Leading scientists proclaim migraines c*nty.“

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A while back I did a post about the history of Yahoo! that Jason Kottke picked up on [my original post]. Someone e-mailed me a classic interview with the founders and in ploughing through a file full of notes, I found the link once more: Interview with Yahoo! founders.

Hey hey – it’s a picture of that cute guy from that site that I linked to that time. You know… The one with the stuff on it.

Today on Barbelith: The Uniform of Uniqueness – “Lunchroom culture has bred a generation of pseudo-marginalised play-acting rich kids, whose teenage ‘rebellion’ trivialises the oppression of genuine subcultural groups. Devondra McMillan reports.”