god, god, GOD - almost every other day stephen fry seems to start wittering about the BBC or the pope or anything else that seems to bother his dainty, pompous, brain and.... i've HAD ENOUGH!


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variously:

1. have not been checking lj in the last week because the laptop lead has died on us: thusly no laptops for crispy at home!

2. have not been checking lj at work because... students are back! and lo! it is mental accordingly

so - er - yeah. radio silence for a few more days i fear - hope all are well!

i really am a luddite at heart and suspect i always will be. i'm 3/4 of my way through a long article detailing why finishing off "last of the summer wine" after only 37 years was remarkably short sighted of the BBC and now i read this. it's the bit at the end by simon winchester that interests me. even though winchester may have forgotten how to ( Read more... )

so farewell then "last of the summer wine". still unreasonably disappointed that they couldn't at least let roy clarke write a "final" episode for the thing, rather than just stopping it and also unreasonably annoyed that they seem to think just because the large audience for the thing is mainly old (except for me) it should be binned... but thirty ( Read more... )

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and don't forget to listen to my lovely radio wife here

just a quickie, as this week is the MENTAL enrollment week at college, but... sarah is on radio four today on the programme "questions, questions". listen to it! ONLINE OR OTHERWISE! but please, do, listen...

hope all is well - more later!

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truly, truly brilliant

i'm not the biggest lee and herring fan, but of the two i've always absolutely respected stewart lee as a brilliant, thoughtful and intelligent man. but it's probably a bit shaming to me that the best thing either of them have ever done, to my mind, is a two page slight joke about sitcom pitches in the "fist of fun" book. lee has now posted it to ( Read more... )

sort of less self defense and more how to kill someone with a plastic straw. incredible...