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July 18th, 2008
02:06 pm
Woo! Zeppelin over the London Eye!
Groovy.
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July 10th, 2008
10:11 am - A thing that is not good
If you are eating cherries for breakfast, and one of them tastes a bit funny to you, it is not a good thing to see a maggot crawling out of the next one you pick up.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/uncomfortable.gif) bleeeee
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June 13th, 2008
11:12 am - Critic grumpy. Critic make me laugh.
Peter Bradshaw reviews 'The Incredible Hulk'.
(As if the trailer wasn't enough to make you sure it was a big load of CGI'd green balls.)
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May 8th, 2008
12:53 pm - Generic title
Generic LJ post created entirely to generate comments.
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May 6th, 2008
10:59 pm - A brief note
Something which has been irking me in the response to Londoners posting their despair at Boris is the appearance of US citizens trying to... oh, I don't know, but let's be charitable and call it a form of ham-fisted sympathy. Well, US citizens popping up and trying to sympathise or empathise in a somewhat ham-fisted manner by saying "this is how it felt when Bush got elected".
To whom I say: WE KNOW.
Thank you, but we felt much the same when Bush got elected as you did. Let's not kid ourselves here, it's a big world but the USA is currently the only viable superpower and therefore people pay attention to who gets elected to its presidency. And when an idiot becomes president, the rest of the world gets worried. Just because you're in the position of not being terribly affected by who gets elected to the leadership of other nations, don't imagine the rest of us have that privilege.
And since you're the sort of people who were desperately embarrassed by Dubya and we're the sort of people who are desperately embarrassed by Boris, let's consider this settled, shake hands and get back to our states of mild despair, okay?
For those Brits who have been pulling the patronising "How could you London?" and/or the "Oh tsk tsk how hilarious!" schtick, kindly remember that not every Londoner voted for TDB just as not every US citizen voted for GWB, stop being patronising and if you can't think of anything helpful to say, hold your peace.
Thank you.
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May 3rd, 2008
12:05 am
Oh fuck. Fucketty fuck fuck fucking fuck.
I'm leaving London tomorrow.
(Returning on Monday, but I can't guarantee that I won't burst into tears when we cross the M25.)
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/scared.gif) distressed
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April 2nd, 2008
10:46 am - Of interest to some readers
COOK WITH HESTON COMPETITION
*waves cheerily at ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) cairmen*
Article in the Independent with competition right at the end. More direct linky to the comp here.
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March 27th, 2008
07:32 pm - Random London observations: a small kindness
Much to the surprise of myself and two eastern Europeans, a pigeon flies straight into the first-floor window of a hotel on Jermyn Street with an impact which ripples the glass like a sheet of plastic. It flutters backwards then eastwards, low over the road, just avoiding a collision with the windscreen of a black cab. I lose sight of it, but keep an eye out as I walk in the same direction. No-one else appears to have remarked the incident.
It's flapping along the pavement by the back of a coffee shop. A young woman tries to grab at it but only has one free hand, the other occupied with a large paper coffee cup. The pigeon flutters up and comes back down again three yards away. A young man appears and herds it against the wall, then crouches down on the pavement, gently pinning down the bird and keeping its wings to its body. With the greatest of care, he proceeds to untangle the thin plastic bag which has become wrapped around the bird's tail and caused its disorientation.
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February 4th, 2008
04:01 pm - Things of beauty
Buttercup Festival is back, hooray!
The Abominable Charles Christopher has been going for a while, and you can read all of it for free, hooray!
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February 2nd, 2008
11:57 pm - Movie news
After the success of 'Jumper', I understand that the career of Hayden Christensen has restarted and he has several more projects in the pipeline. Next up he'll play a triathlete in 'Sweater'. Then there's traffic cop comedy 'Pull Over'. He's also tipped for a role in medieval Welsh family saga 'Cardigan'. Most intriguing of all is his rumoured lead role in a military drama about a U.S. armoured infantry division in Iraq, 'Tank Top'.
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January 18th, 2008
10:31 pm
Thought for the day: if someone grew their hair into an enormous 'fro, and then trimmed it into the shape of a giant brain, that would be awesome.
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January 4th, 2008
08:59 pm - OH MY WORD
The BBC, probably not even by planning it, has comprehensively stolen the Friday night schedules from under the noses of any other nonsense by putting out the antithesis to Celebrity Big Brother Takeover Or Just Take It Away Please Please For The Love Of God - BBC2 has started airing a new series of Natural World. 50 minutes of gorgeous nature, followed by a ten-minute short nature documentary just to round out the hour.
Tonight: Snow leopards. Nearly an hour of rarely sighted photogenic feline fluffy gorgeous slinking around the mountains of Pakistan.
Next week's trailer: Otters. Even more so, orphaned baby giant otter being raised and reintroduced into the wild by a Brazilian naturalist. (Who is a not unattractive young lady, incidentally.) BABY. OTTER.
Please do not phone after 8pm next week. I will be in the process of being overcome by cuteness and will probably need the rest of the evening to recover.
This just in - baby puffins are called "pufflings".
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/enthralled.gif) kawaaaiiii!!!
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December 13th, 2007
12:46 pm - Webcrack warning!
You know what's addictive? Free Rice. It's a vocabulary test and it gives to the UN World Food Programme while you're at it (like those click-through and donate sites which started up a few years back).
You know what's annoying? I got to level 50 in about five minutes last night, and now I can't get above level 49 in an hour.
Current Mood: ![[mood icon]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/mood/neko/kaokitty/annoyed.gif) peeved
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November 12th, 2007
12:23 pm - Holy crap.
There is an enormous cloud of smoke pouring into the otherwise clear blue London sky, and it's coming from somewhere to the north-east of the Barbican, or so it looks from the middle of town..
Does anyone know what's happening? Because something is clearly very on fire, and the smoke is now drifting across the approach flight-path for City Airport. Chris? Is it near you? Are you OK?
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October 15th, 2007
09:14 pm
I'm getting rather dull lately, I must say. Gone are the days when I could write pithy, mildly droll blog entries to keep my friendslist entertained.
Now, all I have to offer is highly directional cussing and sometimes cheering links.
The latter, today.
Well, some of you might know this already, so maybe these aren't new and cheering, but
Firstly, the very cheering news that Fopp is not as dead as it was. Yes, it's been bought up by HMV and no, not all the stores are re-opening, but it's baaaa-aaaack, which I didn't know until yesterday. Essential back catalogue classics for a fiver. Lahvely.
Also, for those of you don't regularly peruse the Telegraph, I happened across an Alan Moore interview, conducted by Susanna Clarke. Here 'tis.
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August 23rd, 2007
10:40 am - Eat your heart out, Errol Flynn
Tip-top movie star shenanigans. Whoo!
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June 30th, 2007
09:25 pm - Okay, now I'm beyond peeved.
One: people are trying to blow up bits of my country, and this is making me angry.
Two: anybody who tries to blow up bits of my country (and especially my city) earns first my anger and then my contempt, mainly because they have so spectacularly missed the point about what Britain and its capital are. (Clue: century upon century of invaders/immigrants.)
Three: not that I'm not grateful for the run of idiocy and bad luck that's affecting this week's would-be murdering terrorist bombers, but seriously, who's their villain role model, fucking Hamburglar?
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June 29th, 2007
03:40 pm
UPDATE: Oh, joy, a bomb scare in Hyde Park.
Current Mood: really bloody peeved
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03:07 pm - Your central London correspondent writes...
Wandered down towards Piccadilly Circus in my lunch hour to buy a T-shirt (the weather keeps changing on the head of a pin, and right now I'm overdressed) and see what's going on around there. Eros and Haymarket are still cordoned off, and the side streets into Haymarket off Lower Regent Street are packed with TV crews and tourists watching the TV crews.
Otherwise it's all helicopters, apocalyptic rain showers, Police in high-visibility jackets and Londoners out buying their lunch.
How fortunate this city is that the majority of the latest wave of terrorists are so thumpingly incompetent.
Current Mood: peeved
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June 25th, 2007
10:07 pm
Aiee! izzytart, you are having a birthday! I hope it is as superfantastic as you are!
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