Powdered wombat guts and other sources of feelings of wellbeing
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 31st, 2007
An entertaining YouTube video: Adolf Hitler reacting badly to some soccer results. Actually, this is a work of comic genius — as good an advertisement for secondary use of original material as I’ve ever seen. I don’t know the ins and outs of the football story but you don’t have to. You don’t even need [...]
Posted in Misc on Jul 27th, 2007
According to a web traffic monitoring tool that I am beta-testing one of the recent visitors to this site came via a Google search for “celebrity buttocks.” Hello?
Eat your heart out Helen of Troy.
Mind you, I was surprised to see her HoTness referred to as a princess and a whore in an abstract of [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 26th, 2007
How new technology has changed what’s on TV. The digital video recorder and my new interest in history programs with computer graphics. Helen of Troy gets a passing mention. Could she possibly have held a candle to Bettany Hughes?
Posted in Uncategorized on Jul 25th, 2007
Some reflections on seeing Nick Broomfield’s film Tracking Down Maggie about his failed attempts to get an interview with Margaret Thatcher.
Posted in Misc on Jul 24th, 2007
England is a little underwater. Floods come and go, but history repeats itself. Warnings and lessons of the past are ignored.
So far, the media have shown the prime minister saying the emergency services are doing a “magnificent job” and nobody has challenged him about the £16m reduction in annual funding for flood defences last year [...]
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