Category: Entertainment
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Roger the bearded lady
Brain remembrances Have you ever had that thing when your brain is sort of at an idle, and then out of nowhere pulls something completely random out from behind it’s back? BRAIN: I notice that you are not doing too much at the moment, so here why don’t you randomly remember two-thirds of the dance…
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World Ignorance Championships
The World Ignorance Championships This was originally an event that was instigated in the early 1950s by Immingham Brown. Brown was a man who had been a particularly unsuccessful spy during the war years, and he realised that the one thing that he was good at was being ignored and ignoring things. He set about…
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I Saw Her Standing There
This is an interactive story that I wrote on Twitter, I wrote it unplanned based on suggestions and votes from Twitter followers. It was written and posted as is, only stopping briefly for a spelling check. Writing is usually so far removed in time from it being written to it being read, I just wondered…
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Music? Call that music?
It’s just a noise. People who say that music was best in a certain decade, you know that they are wrong, don’t you? Unutterably, brain-meltingly, quantifiably wrong. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes though. I should know, I do it all of the time. Come on in, the confusion is just the right temperature. They…
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Trite Entertainment
Originally posted on my old blog on October 17th, 2016. Okay, let’s get this out of the way – I hate what is usually termed “light entertainment” or “family entertainment” I have a passionate love for things like Morecambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies and so on. No, the sort of thing I do not…
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State of play.
Originally posted on my old blog on September 24th, 2016. This afternoon I decided that I wanted to play a game that I had not played for a while. I put the disc in, UPDATE NEEDED. To any modern gamer, this is to be expected really, but it is always galling when you do not…
