July 2014 – Leeds's Singing Organ-Grinder

The 20th century was different

There must still be comperes like that knocking around. I’ve checked out the literature, and it turns out that the 80s weren’t really that gloomy. Here they’re using the “Old Master dark” mechanical video filter. Le déluge, après Chuck Berry, with the odd exception: Andy Field‘s great, but I still prefer Dave Bartholomew:

That’s what a mayor should look like!

The Catholics want their parties back from the nationalists in Berga. Speaking as a sun-worshipper, I want to know where they got them in the first place.

Spanish film producer buys & bins tickets to trigger next tranche of subsidies

Apparently Por un puñado de besos is almost as bad as the last Nicole Kidman thing, but that’s no reason why we shouldn’t all pay for it. Wait: isn’t filling halls with fake consumers in order to obtain greater prizes how political rallies work?

My only grammar peeve

Colin really needs to haul down the flag on his less/fewer mission. It’s not like he hasn’t got enough other things to complain about, what with the weather they’ve been having. I hope on the other hand that the herd will come to realise that it is not true that the “Chinese man [was] killed…

Tweets for June 2014

I am a totalitarian Martian black hole

Portraits in profile are for Ancient Egyptians. As Master of the Universe, I was talking the other day to the giraffe from Madagascar about flea circuses. He wants one, but said that using real fleas was cruel. Wait, said his cat, I represent the true animal kingdom, and I think they deserve it. Yeah, said…