I had a chair.
It was a huge great black reclining job from Ikea, the Valhalla of household goods, and for a couple of years I loved it. I say reclining, it just had an extendable footrest that lifted up when you yanked the lever, a but like Joey and Chandler’s chairs in Friends.
But then I [...]
At the risk of sounding like a hopeless fanboy - which I am, but that is neither here nor there - here are three MORE reasons, as if you needed any, to adore Stephen Fry:
He currently holds the UK record for saying fuck the most times on a live television broadcast,
He is related to legendary [...]
Ah, fuck.
“Canadian blues guitarist Jeff Healey dies at 41.”
See you when I get there, Jeff, though I may be late.
–c.
“I think politics is a lot like sex. It’s something for consenting adults to do, it’s an important part of life, and if you spend too much time thinking about it, you’re a pervert.”
- Derek Powazek.
Amen, brother.
–c.
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Just FUCK OFF.
“They’ve called me a whore, a gold digger, a fantasist, a liar, … eighteen months of abuse [and] 4,400 abusive articles,”
quoth Hopalong Moneybags.
Yeah. Dragging a national icon through a lengthy public divorce process and not stopping until you’ve got enough money to buy a medium-sized country will do that.
Is the £50 million not [...]
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
Dear Ms Mills,
PLEASE FUCK OFF AND DIE.
Yours sincerely,
–c.
I’m a naturally gregarious person, and always have been - despite being a bit of a social misfit and geeky maths kid at school. I’ve always had a large circle of friends, and in fact since leaving school I’ve always had at least three circles of friends that overlap in only minor ways. Seeing as [...]
Thursday, October 4, 2007
(No, not the TV series.)
In 1989 I started playing electric guitar, having finally convinced my parents that I was serious about it and having received my first guitar (a Maya strat copy) for Christmas 1988. When asked I always say that I started playing because of Mark Knopfler. I was a huge Dire Straits fan [...]
