I had a blog on Facebook for a while a year or two ago. This, and anything else tagged old stuff is from that period. Most of them are barely worth the effort it would take to ignore them,  there are a couple of entries I made that I feel are (and I don't want to sound arrogant here) pretty much the greatest thing ever. So in the interest of ( Read more... )

Mourning Gervais (or: How the second series of Extras and that which followed it broke my heart)

8:40am September 27th, 2007

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-ia__1d_rM&feature=PlayList&p=C5B2897AE7DD46F6&index=0&playnext=1

I was going to make today’s post about how much peter hellier sucks (and oh christ oh lordy does he suck...) but I found, to my ( Read more... )

Hahn’s Low Carb beer Makes sure you know what a goddamn mess your life is.

8:02am October 29th, 2007 |

But still, even I think they’ve kind of put a step wrong with the current tagline for their new low carb beer. On the advertising I’ve seen, below the picture of the frosty bottle is the phrase “At least you’re doing something right”. Like, wow. ( Read more... )

This began as a response to Phil’s comment on my previous blog, but it continued so far down the twisty tangent lane that it became pretty much unrelated. I guess the particular trend of blokey humour that we were talking about in the previous blog ( and this is not just in advertising, but in pop culture in general and specifically Humour in Pop ( Read more... )

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5:36am November 15th, 2007

Deluded self aggrandising aside, I’ve realised that through this blog I might come across as a tad whiny and misanthropic, a bit of a Negative Nancy. Something of a Kenny Killjoy, having a conversation with Teddy Tedious, if you will. This is something I thought I would challenge by branching out and writing about ( Read more... )

Kanye welcomes me to the good life, and in so doing, points out exactly why I don't Like Entourage

8:04am January 11th, 2008 |

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNc51WJxNF4

People like Entourage. I mean they really really like it. It’s one of those shows that arouses the same kind of fandom, the same “oh my god you have to see this show” fervour as say ( Read more... )