BLETHERHEIDS

I went to ‘Bletherheids’ at Edinburgh Festival last night. There were performances from A.L. Kennedy, Alan Bissett, Kevin Williamson, Kirstin Innes, Iain Heggie,  Rodge Glass,  Anneliese Mackintosh and Tam Dean Burn. I recorded all of their performances and managed to speak to most of them outside for a moment too. The problem was that I [...]

PODCAST ONE

I decided a while ago that I would like to try putting together a few podcasts just to see how it went. So I bought the equipment and last month I went to London to speak to one of the funniest bloggers and writers you could come across. I met with Philip Challinor, otherwise known [...]

NOT FOR ALL THE SPICE IN INDIA

This story is a couple of months old but what do you think the man himself would have made of it all. I suspect he would not have been concerned about the personal belongings but much more worried about the state of things in general. Even though there is some pretence that they were bought [...]

POLITICAL CORRECTNESS

I think I originally saw this on another blog so if it was your blog then thanks. I don’t know much about Stewart Lee but this was great… He is talking about political correctness…

NOT A METEOR THEN?

This is a press release… Sudden Collapse in Ancient Biodiversity: Was Global Warming the Culprit? Scientists discover early warning signs of ecosystems at risk Ancient fossil leaves tell a story of sudden loss of biodiversity that may have future parallels. Credit and Larger Version June 18, 2009 Scientists have unearthed striking evidence for a sudden [...]

WOULD HAVE BEEN BETTER

This would have been better than the most recent 3 films.

ON THE ROAD AGAIN

Never blogged from a moving train before but thought I should post the photograph below which I noticed whilst waiting for my last connection. Does it strike anyone else as a bit odd? Not “Thanks for travelling with our company” or “Thanks for coming to ———-” but just “Thanks for travelling…in general”. I am all [...]

FINALLY

I’ve finally arrived at my first proper bit of time off in a long time. Naturally, I will be spending the first night or two of that in the pub. After that I can do something about the appalling lack of posting on here lately. Got a lot of good things that just need touching [...]

CELL

This is one of the best written and acted pieces of television I have ever seen. It is done in pretty broad Glaswegian but stick with it, the writing is superb. Parts 2 and 3 are on the continuation page…

GIBBERISH

I made a video at 3.30am last night. This is it…