How come I never heard of this before?

BBC2 1.00 Babylon (1980)
A Rastafarian mechanic in a tough London neighbourhood heads up a mobile DJ crew and prepares to compete in a musical competition. However, he has to contend with racism, volence and crime. Drama, starring Brinsley Forde and Karl Howman.

Must be better than The Music Machine, dunnit?

'E's a geezer! 'E's escaped from the 1975 Shoot annual! 'E's JIMMY BULLARD!!

Finally, effective political ideas are those that can still do good in half-baked form. We have neglected this insight in designing financial reform, and it remains to be seen if we can apply it successfully to climate change.
-- Tyler Cowen

Oh no! The Room is coming to Glasgow on the 16th of next month, and I'll be away! And I don't even have an apposite stupid quote, because I've never seen it.

Last chance to recycle this joke. Obviously I'd like to cheer on england today, but my loyalties are torn because I'm 2/3 slovenian.

Homeopathic anti-depressants: twin placebo effects, no side effects.

Threw out my first draft of a script for a sitcom called Hangdog, to star Walter Matthau, Geoffrey Palmer and Clement Freud. Its moment has passed.

This (11/1/10) is the last binary date for almost nine months (until 1st October). However, it occurs to me that 10/10/10 is now nine months away, too. Surely we should celebrate this date, but what should the name and nature of the celebration be? And do you know anyone whose 101010th* birthday falls on such a date**? If so, they should be guest ( Read more... )

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