Correct To The Worst Of My Ability
I’m taking part in a radio show tonight. It’s one of those ones where they discuss topical issues, people call in who have often read a news headline and like shouting it over and over again until someone responds, and they have a guest comedian hoping they might say something funny here and there. Tonight, […]
25 Essential Blog Rants You Couldn’t Care Less About
January 2014
Filed Under: 76, Blog, buzzfeed, Comedy, escapism, Firestarter, Game Of Thrones, Google, News
My sort of New Year’s resolution to myself was to write a blog everyday this year. My last blog was Saturday, it’s now Thursday. So I’ve already cocked that one up. The problem is time. There is never enough and consistently I find, with the internet, there is even less. There has never been quite […]
Reading Space
January 2014
Filed Under: A La Mod, Apollo, Astronaut, Blog, Books, Chris Hadfield, Comedy, Earth, News
‘I feel like a little kid, like a sorcerer, like the luckiest person alive. I am in space, weightless, and getting here only took 8 minutes and 42 seconds. Give or take a few thousand days of training.’ – Chris Hadfield’s ‘An Astronaut’s Guide To Life On Earth’, page I have just started reading Chris […]
33
January 2014
Filed Under: 33, 87, Adventure Time, Astronaut, babies, Blog, Comedy, Commander Hadfield, Friends, News
Today is that one day of the year when I get older. Well, that’s not true, otherwise I’d only look like I was 33 days old which would be odd. I mean significantly older, in terms of the number that I write down when I write down my age is now different. Sure I could’ve […]
Academy-ically Challenged
This morning, at about 9.40am, I walked onstage in front of about 200 Year 7 students and told them some jokes. It wasn’t an ideal time of day for either comedy to happen, or my brain to function. On top of this I had to follow a group of Year 10 students dancing to ‘What […]
Auto-tune Your Life
This afternoon I watched as a man in a car nearly reversed over a woman crossing the road. This is not an irregular occurance as I find, ever turning into my dad, that people are increasingly shit at driving. I seem to remember the test to get your licence involving a computer game that didn’t […]
Very Blue Monday
January 2014
Filed Under: BBC News, Blog, Comedy, Conservatives, debt, Deficit, energy drinks, GDP, George Osborne, Gordon Brown, Government, News
Today is, according to an energy drinks company, Blue Monday. Usually, thanks to Sky Travel creating the notion of the most depressing day of the year, its a few weeks from now when the faded memories of Christmas combine with the stark misery of January, but this year, it’s earlier. It could be that Upbeat […]
At The Creative Heart Of Things
January 2014
Filed Under: Blog, Breaking Bad, characters, Comedy, Community, Dan Harmon, Desert Island Discs, News
I’ve just watched episodes one and two of season 5 of Community. If you aren’t aware of this program its probably because its not really been aired on any major UK TV channel, but it is, or at least was, one of the very best sitcoms of the last decade. Seasons one to three were […]
Time For More Time
If you got to this blog via Twitter, you’ll know quite how often I use it. Like some sort of horrible addict I genuinely fret when I have nothing to contribute on there, even if I haven’t got anything to say or my life has been exceptionally dull. There’s a lot I could write about […]
Grow Gills And Stop Being Lazy
January 2014
Filed Under: Atlantis, badgers, Blog, Comedy, Environmental Agency, Environmental Secretary, Flooding, Gills, Goalposts, Government, News
The weather outside is horrific. I can say that from my very safe observational post of our front room where I’ve spent most of today watching people clutching their hoods and being blown down the street. One of the few joys of this ‘end of days’ style weather is that no one is able to […]