I’ve recently been given Speed on DVD so I have the VHS for sale at Amazon.
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2005: Italy Is Smoke Free
2003: It Was 20 Years Ago
Monthly Archives: October 2002
Hey, Gay Boy …
I want to highlight this story, partly to remind myself that I am in a lucky position here in the UK: BBC NEWS | UK | ‘Homophobes stabbed and slashed me’
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2005: Nokia E61
2002: Hotels Like To Have A Touch Of Class
Hotels Like To Have A Touch Of Class
It may be a day or so old now, but I feel compelled to bring you an update on yesterday’s coat hager theif story.
“A lot of businessmen would never go home if they had the chance. So when they get home they like to recreate the hotel experience in their own house”. Independent
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2005: Nokia E612002: Hey, Gay Boy …
Why did you steal 40,000 hotel coat hangers?
A most extraordinary trial is going on in the High Court at the moment in which a man named Chrysler is accused of stealing more than 40,000 coat hangers from hotels round the world: Independent
I think this is the most brilliant thing!
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Red Hair Hurts
Today’s New Scientist news service reports people with red hair are more sensitive to pain and consequently need more anaesthetic during operations than other patients.
There is often a story to be found in New Scientist that makes me smile – often for no obvious reason. I don’t think this one is very funny but researchers have discovered that people with red hair are more sensitive to pain. What about people with limited amounts of hair?
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2004: Looking Around2002: America’s Fault
America’s Fault
“Before last weekend, liberal Australia felt the US had brought September 11 upon itself. But, says Clive James, the bombing in Bali has smashed that argument – and thrown his country in to the war against terror.”
An interesting and somewhat heartfelt piece in The Guardian today: Guardian Unlimited | Clive James: Don’t blame the west
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2004: Looking Around
2002: Red Hair Hurts
Shapes Made By Radio Waves
Well, according to a report in this weekend’s Observer newspaper, the Ministry Of Defence is interested in the technology that allows us all to be monitored by our mobile phones. Apparently, there are many positive uses of this ‘spy’ technology – following people on the move (walking or driving) and monitoring areas (nuclear power stations, roads etc.) when visibility is bad. Nobody seems to ask what happened if you loan you mobile ‘phone to somebody or (gasp) switch it off. Observer: How mobile phones let spies see our every move
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2005: links for 2005-10-15
2004: Less Clutter On The Air
Up Above The Streets And Houses
In case you’re wondering, my attempt to bring forth an avalanche of programmes from my childhood didn’t quite have the desired result. However, Danny Baker on BBC London this morning did spend some time talking about Rainbow (fab title sequence here). Somehow, it doesn’t seem quite so much of a spooky coincidence as the whole Fame thing.
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2004: BBC4 Should Broaden Its Appeal
2002: Awww
Awww
I was certainly right. I ached this morning. Almost every bone and several parts I didn’t really know that I had. It remains, however, a great feeling not to have spent the day indoors watching television on a wet Sunday afternoon. I tackled nature and although nature probably won in the end (watch as all my careful pruning results in a whole pile of dead plants by spring) it was a rewarding task. I don’t get to spend much time outdoors and I don’t to do much physical work. I am a desk-jockey and it probably isn’t that good for me. I never really wanted to be a desk bound. For me, sitting in an office all day has strange overtones of turning into my father. I have nothing against my Dad, I just never thought of myself as being a desk-based person but I am. I sit in front of a screen and type for most of the day. I guess that’s why I enjoyed the rain yesterday and, luckily, I don’t seem to have the cold I thought that amount of soggy clothing would bring on.
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2004: BBC4 Should Broaden Its Appeal
2002: Up Above The Streets And Houses
Starmaker, Dream Breaker
So it’s all getting a bit spooky. There I was on Friday night remembering the songs from the TV series of Fame (I preferred the TV series as it was much fluffier. Being so young, the grittiness of the film version didn’t hit me for several years) and remembering Danny as one of my childhood lust-objects (download your Danny wallpaper here).
I spent yesterday doing all the boring things you have to do around the house occasionally. Cleaning. Paying bills etc. At some point I switched on VH1 to find it was their 100 Worst Videos day. And the song I switched on to? No 62 (I think) which was Starmaker, by the Kids from Fame (OK, it would have been a better story if it was Friday Night, but still).
So let’s see if I can tempt fate – I want to see more about the following: Play School, Rainbow, Harley Hare, The Clangers, Trumpton. How spooky would it be if this actually works?
It will aid my aching bones. I’ve been in the garden all day cutting down bushes and pruning. I was outside for the grand total of seven hours and it rained for most of them. Strangely, I feel invigorated by having spent the day outdoors. No doubt I shall ache tomorrow.
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2003: Marriage Protection Week 2003
2003: Returning from Holidays