Indifferent Ignorance
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Spoon Keyboards and Snakes Being Freaky
I am typing this on my new computer and using an ergonomic keyboard which is curved like an upside-down spoon. It has lots of short cut buttons that I’m eagerly anticipating using in my quest to become a Serious Writer Person… new computer, new start and all of that. Except I don’t have Microsoft Office… Continue reading
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The Six O’Clock News: Examining the Bigger Picture of the Oscar Pistorius Trial (Mostly Unscientifically) So that You Don’t Have To!
I haven’t been sure what to talk about today because the week’s big news, Ukraine, is changing so fast that a blog would be redundant in about twenty minutes. In a lot of ways so would the Oscar Pistorius trial but Ruby and I were talking earlier about aspects of it, so let’s have a… Continue reading
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The Ten O’Clock News: “and the Oscar goes to… every fuckin’ person who was involved in this goddamn hearbreaking real life fuckin’ example of human evil!”
So I think something like two-thirds of this year’s Oscars nominations are based on true stories – 12 Years a Slave, The Wolf of Wall Street, Dallas Buyers’ Club, etc. (I’m assuming they’re nominated. I’ve seen them in the press, you know?!) On an almost entirely unrelated note, Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical Stephen Ward… Continue reading
DISCUSS., February 2014, Films, Government and Politics, Newspapers, The Ten O’Clock News, THE WORLD *head in hands*’12 Years a Slave’, ‘Dallas Buyers’ Club’, ‘Jesus Christ Superstar’, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, ‘The Wolf of Wall Street’, ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’, dodgy Japanese toilets, Endal the dog, films that should be made, Indifferent Ignorance, musicals, Oscars, Profumo scandal, Stephen Ward, The Ten O’Clock News, Ugandan tabloids -
Pancake Day! Or, Not.
You know those weeks when you think it’s Wednesday when it’s Tuesday and Thursday when it’s Wednesday and Monday was a fortnight ago? Yep yep. I also can’t remember what I wanted to talk about so let’s all talk about Pancake Day (which I thought was either yesterday or 30th March). Last year’s was my… Continue reading
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