The National Theatre's summer season went on sale to my membership level first thing this morning, and other obsessive theatricals will know that tends to be a bit of a bunfight for the best-value tickets, with the site regularly crashing in the past (things have been better the last couple of years but it did look wobbly for a bit again today.) ( Read more... )

It's Friday afternoon, which means I shall now attempt to entertain and/or disturb you. Disturb being very much the appropriate word where this YouTube video's concerned, it's one of the most bizarre things I've seen for some time. Quite apart from the obvious thing about this clip, how many other songs have god himself on backing vocals?

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Well, as I predicted, Ben Adams was the first out in last night's Celebrity Big Brother final - but from then on, things got a bit... weird. If you ever needed proof that the producers had it in for the lovely Ben, try this: They only showed topless shots of him after he'd been evicted.


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Dave C recently moved to a new flat, practically up the road from me, and on Monday night he invited me round for dinner. At this point I'd like to say, for the benefit of Newly-Bearded Alex if he happens to be reading, that "dinner" is not some kind of secret codeword that means "we are having a torrid affair that we're not telling you about." ( ( Read more... )

I've been getting up to some well weird stuff in bed the last couple of nights. No, sadly this isn't a sex post. It's about me waking up and finding out I've done something odd in my sleep. In the early hours of Monday morning, I had a dream that must have involved me choking on something, as I was leaning over the sink trying to cough it up and as ( Read more... )

So today's been weird. Not in any way I can put my finger on, just... weird. I suppose it's down to me feeling a bit at a loose end. It's the second week of my holiday, during which time low funds means I'm not actually doing much of anything. Which is fine most of the time, I'm quite happy catching up with my sleep, my reading and my DVD-watching ( Read more... )