My paper this morning gave me not one, but several good laughs. First there was a picture of Her Majesty the Queen getting – “almost unnoticed” it said – on the train at King’s Cross to go to Sandringham. Unnoticed …
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TanishaBrewer is following me on Twitter – and other random thoughts
This has been a funny old day. Actually, a funny old month, mostly spent scrambling desperately to do all the things I’ve stupidly agreed to do. This is not a new state of affairs. I’m always agreeing to do more …
Read MoreFile with venom under “Who gives a shit” … and something for the holidays
I just read that a choreographer called Freidman, “fears X-factor winner Joe Elderberry’s debut single The Climb could lose the Christmas number 1 spot to the re-released Killing in the Name by Rage against the Machine. “It could happen,” he …
Read MoreWho’s screwing who now?
Readers may be astonished to know that in my fiery youth I came close to being a communist. One of my mentors was a wonderful man called Rufus Leven who had been on the Central Committee of the Communist Party …
Read MoreThe insanity of Twitter
So there’s this guy who’s “following 5130 people”. Oh, really? Has he invented the 52 hour day?
Read MoreLatest despatch from the wonderful world of Google – plus monkeys reveal why social networks are so popular
I feel like shit today after whizzing over from the Land of the Free, but I was amused when I read this phrase from David Naylor about Google’s new “real time search”: “I don’t think ‘clusterf**k’ is too strong a …
Read MoreIt’s official! I’m an ass … but I should be feeling a lot worse than I do
Two people in the last 24 hours have told me that whoever among my motley crew does the optimising has got me down as Drayton Bird Ass. Quite right too, and after my son Phil’s annual Christmas Party last night …
Read MoreHow to write stuff people read
A friend wrote (very amusingly)about the blog written by someone close to her – and asked me what I think he should do – as follows. He has been writing what he thinks – and as she put it – …
Read MoreI really am getting too old for this shit – but here’s the name of a surprise good restaurant
Yesterday started at 4 am and finished at 2 am today, if you see what I mean. I woke at 4 am, all too keenly aware that I had no idea of how to get to La Guardia from Brooklyn. …
Read MoreLater, I’ll tell you about my longest day – but first, this made me laugh
A WOMAN’S POEM: Before I lay me down to sleep, I pray for a man who’s not a creep, One who’s handsome, smart and strong. One who loves to listen long, One who thinks before he speaks, One who’ll call, …
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