Who was it who said, of literary criticism I think, “we murder to dissect”?
Who said that writing about music was “dancing like architecture”?
Well in the Guardian Guide on Saturday, Tim Jonze wrote about the comedian Josie Long. He said ‘you do have to be there’ to appreciate her sketch where she just repeats the phrase “Who here, out of everyone here, likes Nelly?”
I don’t need to be there. Just reading that phrase made me laugh out loud and thinking it still puts a big silly grin on my face.
Reading Calvin and Hobbes in bed, I turn out the light and briefly turn on the radio to check the alarm. First word I hear is “Calvinistic”.
Just now, watching Cape Wrath. Line of dialogue: “How’s Jack Donnelly?”. I turn to the bookcase and the first thing I see are the words MILLS/DONNELLY.
I dug the old turntable out of the loft months ago and never had the time to dub off any of that precious vinyl… and when I did get round to it I discovered the stylus was missing. I didn’t want to shell out the best part of £100 on one of those USB turntables, so I sent £20 to the Diamond Stylus Company in Wales. A few days later a shiny new stylus arrived.
And I know why vinyl died out. It’s crap. It pops, hisses, clicks and is horribly prone to sibilance. But listening to ‘Glad it’s all over’ by Captain Sensible and ‘The Official Colourbox World Cup Theme’ for the first time in over twenty years put a big stupid grin on my face.
Further to my pathetic joke “Is ITV 2+1 the same as ITV3?”… we were just watching ITV 2+1 and the announcer said “…and if you missed this programme, it’s just starting now on ITV 2+1″. You’re twisting my melon, man.
Anyway, I think ‘plus one’ channels should be banned from DTT / Freeview. That kind of profligacy with bandwidth is ok for you Sky types, but not us down here on Planet Perky.
When we had our first child we just couldn’t agree on his surname. I wanted him to have mine, my wife wanted him to have her’s. So we did that awful compromise and he became a double-barreled Booth-Farmer. I don’t like it, but it seemed the least-worst option.
We know one couple that changed both their names to a third name, but this seems frankly bonkers. But I do wonder what happens if Henry Booth-Farmer marries Sophie Rees-Harmer… will their first child be Maisie Booth-Farmer-Rees-Harmer?
I think I’ve found a solution. There’s a girl in Henry’s class with the surname Booth. He should marry her and – in a gesture of right-on feminist solidarity – ensure he and their children take her name.
