There are 43 police forces in England & Wales. They are soon to gain a Police & Crime Commissioner (PCC). Like Gotham City. But better paid ( Read more... )

Twitter is today awash with hat-doffs and memories for comedian Gregg Jevin. I never saw him, so I have refrained from joining in, but thought the moment needed marking.

Michael Legge broke the tragic news of his passing this mourning morning.

RT @michaellegge: Sad to say that Gregg Jevin, a man I just made up, has died.Right now, he is the #1 ( Read more... )

Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall Street from a Discreet Distance

1. If you work hard, and become successful, it does not necessarily mean you are successful because you worked hard, just as if you are tall with long hair it doesn’t mean you would be a midget if you were bald ( Read more... )

RT @lakinmccarthy, by @robinince
Catch @robinince, today's Guardian comedy pick of the week, tonight at Blackheath Halls. Tickets still available.

@iandstone
@robinince I think I'd be tempted to have "tickets still available" on my gravestone.

@robinince@iandstone while people over your grave apologise for low attendance & say "thursday is always ( Read more... )

Charlie Brooker's just Twittered a recommendation, of sorts, for The Daily Mail website for *really* obscure titty froth. Tits you've never even heard of.

Am, now earwormed with a song about being "horny", with a keyword chorus of "orni-orni-thology". Brilliant.

Have determined an excellent use of my Twitter favourites is to retweet them onto LJ. Commemoration by public airing, and all that. I really how the constraint of 140 characters makes for pith, but also how the form itself generates extra jokes, topper-gags through hashtag under-cutting of oneself. And bouncing off other people too...

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Have determined an excellent use of my Twitter favourites is to retweet them onto LJ. In blocks of 10 days at a time. Welcome to the middle of March.

robinince Robin Ince ( Read more... )

Have determined an excellent use of my Twitter favourites is to retweet them onto LJ. Think of this as a mass Follow Friday; catch-up on 10 days worth of the elsewhere of the internet; an insight into what tickles & feeds & surrounds me; an extremely lengthy and vaguely irritating waterfall of wordery...

mrchrisaddison, Chris Addison ( Read more... )

Pictures of cats & dogs upstaging each other. Photobombing, if you will. Like one whole page of band snaps with a dick guitarist, only here it's a pet, not a musician. Lo:


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Jason John Whitehead is on a train to Nottingham.

He just overheard this: "I realise he lost consciousness but my doctor says it means my bowels are healthy, pass us a WKD Janine".

Suddenly grateful for all I have.