My constituency's gone Conservative. I feel as if my vote somehow exploded in the ballot box and burnt up four thousand Lib Dem votes. Blast. Should have realised that was a risk ( Read more... )

My mental screensaver is now Charlie Brooker snogging an adorable furry handpuppet. If I'm not thinking of anything in particular, I'm seeing Brooker making out with a puppet. I suspect this may be the case for a while.

By which I mean that I went to see the You Have Been Watching Children's TV Special being recorded yesterday with causethesounds, anewcitylife and th_esaurus. My ( Read more... )

I have been to see the recording of the first episode of the second series of You Have Been Watching, with anewcitylife, causethesounds (EDIT FROM THE FUTURE: causethesounds at the time) and derryderrydown! (It's a shame my username isn't 'bionaleonhart'; we almost had an alphabet theme going ( Read more... )

I have been to another recording of The Unbelievable Truth, with anewcitylife and causethesounds! It was hosted, of course, by David Mitchell; the panellists were Fred MacAulay, Susan Calman, Liza Tarbuck and Charlie 'Charlie Freaking Brooker' Brooker.

I'll say that again: one of the panellists was Charlie Brooker.

I cannot express how excited I have been for the past ( Read more... )

why do I not have a scanner

Dear Harriet ( Read more... )

I wasn't a big fan of 'Red Brick and Ivy', largely because it was written by a man who seemed worried that we wouldn't realise when Patrick Jane was joking unless another character said 'lol you just made a joke'. The first time it happened I thought 'oh, please don't unnecessarily point out that that was a joke' before the man said, 'Ah, humour! ( Read more... )

We may eventually be on a DVD of the Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain's performance at the Proms! I went along with my brother and his friends, and some people working with the Orchestra came up to us in the queue, presumably intrigued by the fact that no fewer than six of us were carrying ukuleles (they are like an infectious disease; with the ( Read more... )

During Asylum, I dreamt that I was walking through a corridor when a man tapped me on the shoulder, drew me aside to a painting whilst saying, 'Hey, look at this,' and then punched me in the gut and tried to kidnap me. The worst part is that I fell for it twice: it was at different points in the dream, quite far apart, but on both occasions it was ( Read more... )

I have returned from the 'Asylum' Supernatural convention ( Read more... )

I have taken a suspiciously ukulele-shaped package with Derren Brown's name on it to the post office. I have no idea whether it is going to reach him or not. I certainly hope so, because it is quite a nice ukulele and Derren Brown clearly needs one ( Read more... )