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Category: Entertainment | c: 25 Nov 2011 19:49 | m: 28 Nov 2011 10:22

Y'know things that are all the rage? Blogs. Everyone has one; or at least had one before Facebook, Twitter and Google+ diluted the realtime pool.

Since I'm nu-old skool — and watching endless streams of people copying and pasting the same thing to each other erodes my will to live — I figured why not make a blog? The main difference here compared with other people's blogs is that instead of being limited to one topic, you get a little slice of everything all mashed up. I'm too good to be tweeting.

Insult my loft
25 November 2011 · 373 words (laps up about 2 mins)

You’d have thought that unsolicited callers would have given up calling us by now. The number of times I’ve bought anything or given any detailed info about us is zero. But still they persist.

Quote me awkward
11 September 2011 · 70 words (devours less than a minute)

Doc Brown stumbles into difficulties dealing with customer service computer systems that aren’t designed for eccentric inventors.

Teen music fans get a bad name
31 August 2011 · 69 words (devours less than a minute)

If you had the job of marketing and promoting a teen rock festival, what would you call it?

QoS
08 June 2011 · 136 words (munches less than a minute)

What’s over 40 years old and should be put to pasture? The BBC’s longest running quiz show, that’s what.

Radio 1 late to the party (again)
07 June 2011 · 257 words (munches about 2 mins)

Like their Big Weekend in Carlisle, Radio 1 think that bigging something up into the stratosphere makes it new and exciting. Once again, they demonstrate they are merely followers of fashion.

Magic isn't dead
24 May 2011 · 428 words (munches about 2 mins)

Magicians these days are a far cry from Paul Daniels and Debbie McGee of my era. It’s good to see that some of them still take their craft seriously. Enter David Penn.

Stef shows off part of his gigantic tongue to woo the ladies

Stef shows off part of his gigantic tongue to woo the ladies. It doesn't have the desired effect