30 Jun 2007
Knight her now!
Have fun.
29 Jun 2007
Friday night
Me and K decided on a fun time going out for food and a fillum. We headed up to the Meridian place where there are these food places they call restaurants and a big room where they show moving picture stories.
First place was stuffed to the gills with screamy kids and there was no way we could stay there. Second place was stuffed to the gills with screamy kids and there was no way we could stay there neither. Actually we tried there and waited a bit until we got a table. Whilst waiting a family unit of 4 arrived being mum, dad and 2 daughters (aged just into double figures by the look of them). The mum was dressed in classic “chav chic” and the daughters clearly took her lead when it came to fashion. I stated something along the lines of “ooh look the local kids are getting tips on how to dress badly” and I reckon they all heard me ‘cos I got the best evils from the lot of them. Cool moment. Nearly up there with the “look out for the fat and lazy person” one in Northampton.
We eventually got tabled but it was right next to a group which included about a dozen 8 or 9 year old girls. The volume and pitch of the hubbub managed to give me a splitting headache within the first 2 minutes of sitting there. We left.
Eventually we ended up at a Beefeater place. They squeezed us in. Actually they squeezed us onto a massive table built for many but it was the only one they had free. Food was nice and drink was normal coke.
Between courses a slightly shabby bloke in a suit approached us in rather a direct direction. I assumed he was a slightly drunk reveller from the group at the bar. I stared askance and obviously gave the impression of “Who’s this idiot?” and “Please bugger off”.
“Don’t worry I’m harmless” says he proffering a hand for a handshake. Turns out he’s the restaurant’s resident close-up magician. So he swanked off a snazzy card trick and made K smile a lot. Good idea that magician thing. Must ask LP how that trick was done when I see him.
Have fun.
PS Oh and we didn’t see a fillum.
27 Jun 2007
Slash dot grammar
Lovely story here.
Makes you wonder if the journalist knows what “flaunt” actually means. Also makes you wonder whether he/she meant “flout”. Perhaps.
Have fun.
Oh bless her
Just had a patient come in:
- “You won’t be happy with me” she says.
- “Oh really? Why not?”
- “I haven’t done my exercises.” (a cardinal sin)
- “Really?”
- “No, my mum died on Friday.”
Now really. What’s more important here? And she thinks I’ll be upset ‘cos she’s not followed my instructions to the letter. I’m such a bully me.
But contrast that with people who will just ignore anything you tell them and then tell you that you’re not helping them.
Have fun.
26 Jun 2007
Search terms again
I’ve just got round to looking at my site stats – coo lots of readers – ta for that.
But if you recall I used to put up some of the terms that led google and other searchers to my site. Here’s some from recent months:
Sensible ones that seem relevant:
- heresy stewart lee
- monkeyjuggler
- belgium martin bungay
- bulgarian humour
- parit juggling
- sparky mark chainsaw juggler
- sholay pizza leicester
- phobic about grammatical mistakes
- celebrating stupidity
Just oddness:
- latin vocab pitt
- pronounce dietz
- ps3 juddering ridge racer 7
- bnp
- looking after dogs wot was a bans
- cliff richard
- make monkey talk english accent
- weird taste mouth
- anita anand nipples
Funny ones:
- interesting stuff for a bored bloke
- cheesy baps
- prejudice about the british
- monkey juggling technique
- stuff that fizzes
Have fun.
[edit: just sent this to the Anita Anand show - wonder if they'll be interested]
It’s disctastic!
Or “spactacular”; whichever you prefer.
So the Juggle.tv guys got the BJC07 DVD out and my copy came the other day. So any thoughts so far?
First impressions were positive enough. Decent visuals and the music’s fine.
There are some annoying things that really, well, annoyed me and I hope the problems are down to space or timing issues or copyright stuff ‘cos otherwise it’s a pain.
The Goods:
- As with all convention videos it’s fun to try and spot yourself and friends.
- The gym stuff was pretty good showing stuff I missed like Bibi and Bichu showing off. And it showed me things that I wanted to see again like Dietz’s “autism chic” and his amazing sensible shoes.
- Bits of shows – seeing Wes’s and Get the Shoe’s routines again was good. I’m sure you all have your fave bits of the shows to watch again too.
- A bit of Wudjafuk – cut down to a mere snippet though probably on the orders of Garfield.
- Just reminding me that I had a really nice time there.
Mediums
- Stuff like the parade bores me but that’s prolly why I didn’t go on the parade.
- In-jokes – Cool for the 3 or 4 people involved but no-one else.
Bads
- Editing in some shows/routines – a tricky one this as they had some stick last year for editing the visuals whilst continuing the music uninterrupted meaning wild cheering when nothing spectacular was happening and badly timed music cues etc.. I assume they tried to reduce those sort of problems but it still sort of sticks out too much for me. Any chance of the unexpurgated versions of routines for the whingers like me? This was most noticeable in BYJOTY which is a shame as it was the best show of the convention.
- Dodgy acts – I tried to suppress some of the acts I saw that week and didn’t want to be reminded of 1 or 2 of them. Still I can’t ask for completeness and then ask for judicous editting on the grounds of artistic merit can I? NB Kudos for stopping the Britishish Cabaret immediately following Luke Wilson’s act though; well done.
- The games – my god how long do they last? Cut em out or down a hell of a lot more. Or leave ‘em on in an “unexpurgated footage” section – you know, like the BYJOTY routines.
- Screwing up the sound on William’s public show act. Seems the master of the DVD was dodgy hence the sound dies during this routine. A shame.
In general though I like the thing. The life around the convention bits are nice and memory-jogging; the good bits of the shows were all there and it’s not possible to please everyone all the time so well done.
I’m buying next year’s too.
Have fun.
25 Jun 2007
Clurb…
…get your I.T. detector out again.
Letter from today’s local rag:
I have decided to write a book. One that offends a religion (any one will do).
Then when the people of that religion decide to kill me for offending their religion, I will receive special police protection for 10 years or more, costing millions, of course.
While all this protection is going on I’ll move to another country and, of course, I criticise the country that has protected me all this time and then, hey presto! I get a knighthood. Easy ain’t it?
Ooh! I.T. detector bleeping manically.
I wrote a response but it wasn’t coming up on the website so I’m not sure if they’ve got it but I can’t be arsed to do it again.
Incisive comment there from someone who clearly knows his stuff. Either that or all ME Corrall’s ever heard about Salman is he wrote a book that lots of people were offended by despite never reading it.
I’m sure ME Corrall has read the book and is therefore able to fully comment on the artistry involved in its creation. No doubt he would also wish to replicate the task of creating a body of work as acclaimed, varied and extensive as the rest of Salman’s. I’m sure such a well-informed commentator is familiar with this body of work.On the other hand perhaps ME Corrall is as ignorant as the fools who condemn a work of fiction without ever reading the book they claim to despise (IE because they’ve been told to).
Honestly. Some people!
Have fun.
Crappy Monday
I’m hating today.
- Poor sleep after a screwed up weekend of sleep so I’m knackered to start with.
- Crappy weather.
- First patient shows up, no notes in my drawer. Search drawer thoroughly and no luck. Search again and still no luck. Patient waiting. Seen patient lots of times so need notes! After 10 minutes the patient then tells me that they failed to attend their last session, in April! That means she’s been discharged. So to the discharged notes drawer. Have to search that as there are loads of people discharged (6 months worth in fact). So a waste of 10 minutes of the session.
- Plus she’d been discharged so shouldn’t have been back without a new referral.
- She didn’t have a new referral.
- Another patient is due for his first appointment today. No referral in the drawer and no front sheet (name, address and similar stuff).
- Admin lady is not in today to get me a new one. We can’t do one from the clinician’s system ‘cos admin do them.
- I’m used to working on my own but I have a new colleague here this morning. Nice chap but I’m in a “leave me alone” and “shut up” kind of mood.
- And he will insist on talking to his patients.
- Just to spite me (prolly).
- And this bloody site is not updating properly now!!!!! I wrote this ages ago and it’s still not coming up on the main screen like it should. What the *&^%*^%$&^ is going on with this bloody site?
Mind you juggling tonight so something to look forward to. Might have to have fish and chips for lunch ‘n’all.
Have fun.
23 Jun 2007
Time for Tiffin?
There’s a line from the past. (“Carry on Up the Khyber” if I’m not wrong)
Well me, Sir Pete and Lady Ruff-Diamond-Bear and Randi Dee, the Kahsi of Markfield went to a posh Indian place called the Tiffin for a celebratory meal. Expensive but nice in the main but Clurb was not impressed with hers. Tawas are very nice indeed.
Back to mine for pudding but no-one really wanted any once we arrived. So we watched the BJC DVD and had a little fun spotting ourselves. Full review later.
So a quiet day today. Watching House as we speak and just remembering that someone got me onto Facebook now. Might have a poke around with that. Any comments re FB? Any cop or waste of time?
Have fun.