Volume 87
8 May 2009
6 May 2009
Hey, Amazon ever heard of International Standards? 8.5 x 11 screen indeed.
5 May 2009
4 May 2009
3 May 2009
I think Shaun Murphy looks like Chandler from Friends for some reason.
30 Apr 2009
29 Apr 2009
28 Apr 2009
Sorry about the lack of entertainment here recently - it gets harder and harder to find good stuff and that takes time that I haven't had recently.
24 Apr 2009
RIP John Michell - I was just reading the articles about him in Fortean Times too. Very sad.
23 Apr 2009
20 Apr 2009
18 Apr 2009
16 Apr 2009
RIP Clement Freud
15 Apr 2009
11 Apr 2009
10 Apr 2009
Son out of hospital now but a lot of recovering to do for him. Thanks to everyone for your messages - much appreciated.
8 Apr 2009
There is a partial descent of the cone of silence - I am supposed to be in Portugal but the son is in hospital so I am not....
6 Apr 2009
RIP Bud Shank
4 Apr 2009
Some great archive Jazz footage in the Arena program on Cool - still on the iPlayer at the moment. I do like 50s jazz more and more.
3 Apr 2009
2 Apr 2009
1 Apr 2009
31 Mar 2009
30 Mar 2009
29 Mar 2009
28 Mar 2009
There is a shop near me called Pets Haven which is a grooming parlour. Unfortunately they advertise it by URL and of couse the name comes out petshaven which I always read the wrong way.
27 Mar 2009
26 Mar 2009
25 Mar 2009
Someone just pointed out that Star Trek boldy goes where no one has gone before, but they always manage to meet someone. How?
24 Mar 2009
Everything I want to post these last few days, I have posted before. The internet must be full or something.
23 Mar 2009
22 Mar 2009
Been away ths weekend....
20 Mar 2009
Ugh, marking.
And this is where I went to school from being 5 till 17. It isn't a school now so it doesn't look quite like it did.
And we lived here (brown door) when students, but it had proper dormer windows in those days. And we also lived in here (in both 122 and 124). The much missed Joe Scurfield loved a couple of doors down for a while.
18 Mar 2009
Spam Joy : "Periodic Internet Baking Updates"
17 Mar 2009
16 Mar 2009
Bloody spammers in the comments again. What a pain
15 Mar 2009
JD Crowe and the New South - badly dubbed with the version from the record but well worth watching just for the clothes and hair. One of my favourite songs ever this.
11 Mar 2009
Bizarre spam o'the day : "Calvary greetings to you and the rest of your household, how are you doing today? I sincerely hope fine because am fine with family over here" What on earth are Calvary greetings?
10 Mar 2009
8 Mar 2009
7 Mar 2009
6 Mar 2009
Damn, Emily Remler was good - Dahoud (e-music not Spotify, Sorry)
4 Mar 2009
Harry and Caresse Crosby once travelled round Europe only stopping in places whose names had one syllable.
3 Mar 2009
2 Mar 2009
1 Mar 2009
28 Feb 2009
RIP Ian Carr
27 Feb 2009
Hmm, I got the button maker parameters wrong. I'll fix it another day.
Added a twitter button if you want to be bored rigid with inanity by following me
I really do need to do a makeover on this weblog
26 Feb 2009
25 Feb 2009
Dylan Moran was very, very funny last night at the Tyne Theatre.
24 Feb 2009
23 Feb 2009
22 Feb 2009
21 Feb 2009
Hmmm, Simpson sky over my house at the moment
Ugh, Twitter has the fail whale
20 Feb 2009
RIP Snooks Eaglin
brain fag today. Steven Grossmand and Damon Brown very good last night. Nice Hard bop.
19 Feb 2009
18 Feb 2009
Good lord, the Brits are dreadful. Really, really, dreadful. But not bad enough to be car crash TV either.
I do like the Warren Buffet line "It's only when the tide goes out that you see who's swimming naked"
RIP Louis Bellson
17 Feb 2009
I read a couple of the comics on the go comics site. Have you ever read any of the comments that people post? Some of them are mind-bogglingly stupid. Like repeating the punchline, or seeming to miss the point a) that it is a cartoon and b) that it is meant to be funny. One has to assume that the posters are just stupid.
16 Feb 2009
15 Feb 2009
Hmm, Sugarhill Gang, Rapper's Delight. The 14 minute version.
14 Feb 2009
Damn, this is good - Quicksiver Messenger Service play Minor Swing (Sorry if you can't spotify - I cant find it anywhere else - I do have 9 invites left but I have no idea if they work outside the UK)
13 Feb 2009
12 Feb 2009
Off to TyneTwestival via some food
11 Feb 2009
Visions of China - Japan
However I will never understand why/how the medal he won in the war weighs 500 pounds and it sleeps on the floor.
Drug Store Truck Drivin' Man - great stuff! Lovely steel playing.
10 Feb 2009
Spotify is now open to all.
7 Feb 2009
6 Feb 2009
5 Feb 2009
4 Feb 2009
3 Feb 2009
Pornotron - see the difference between safe search and search. May well offend (if you are lucky enough to get the right keywords of course)
2 Feb 2009
More weird spam : "Dear, I am Mr. Mark Johnson of tripod consulting company. We will be coming for massage treatment and we are in number 8 adults, and we are to spend 7 day's. Please get back to me with the rate per person; please also get back to me with 30 minutes daily session. Your professional advice needed. Arrival date: 20 July 2009. Departure date: 27 July 2009. Please check the availability and get back to me with the Total cost. Mode of payment: credit card or cheque."
1 Feb 2009
My mother mentioned to me today a radio programme called "The Boys of Glen Morrach" - a sort of schoolboy detective story. Very unusually there appears to be no mention of this anywhere on the internet. Indeed I could only find a single reference to the boys of glen morrach and that was at a book seller. Odd
31 Jan 2009
Was at a birthday party last night - all folkies so lots of good singing and playing Johnny Handle did a song and Rachel and Becky Unthank too (it was their dad's party) - very much the old and the young of Tynrside music
30 Jan 2009
29 Jan 2009
RIP John Martyn Solid Air is arguably my favourite album of all time. Listening to it now on Spotify.
28 Jan 2009
27 Jan 2009
Bizarre spam sent to me asking about reserving two rooms for two couples travelling, with a promise to fooolow up wiht credit card details for reservation. I wonder what its all about.
26 Jan 2009
25 Jan 2009
I invented an Amaretti Betty (dessert) today - worked quite well but it was perhaps a bit too strongly flavoured by the amaretti biscuits. (Apples, blueberries, sugar, rind and juice of an orange and crushed amareti biscits)