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It’s a sign of the fall of the West when people have time to sit in their underpants, and watch Fraggle Rock. The Wikipedia page is interesting and worth a read. Some Wikipedians know a great deal about Fraggle Rock. I find that amusing. Despite having read the page and remembered quite a bit. Watch a whole episode here (p1, p2, p3).
That show used to give me nightmares.
The video of the interview with ex-Scientologist and actor Jason Beghe is on the tubes. I’m finding it quite difficult to follow because a lot of the jargon is unfamiliar to me. But this segment is worth watching because by the end it has more occurences of the word fuck per minute than a Tarantino movie. It’s fascinating from the perspective of an insight into Scientology (albeit from a apostate’s perspective - but he’s still a primary source). I quite like Jason Beghe, and sort of recognise him from some US television shows, he’s a bit like Frank Costanza (example) but nicer and with more fucks. See here for the background to it.
would mean that I would wake up earlier on Sundays.*
* Realistically speaking, being honest with myself, I misspoke when I typed that. I’d almost certainly record it on Sky Plus or download it. Or watch the repeat.
Never before has the mechanical action of the human heart been made to sound so wanky. Lol. Watch Hard ‘N Phirm here.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/radio4_aod.shtml?radio4/lifestylenutritionists
It’s a fascinating history of lifestyle nutritionists - including funny fads that your great-great grandparents and grandparents may have known about.
You can comment to the host directly, not indirectly through forums or staff, but at his blog here.
An excellent documentary about Richard Feynman.
I have nicked this link from Ben Goldacre’s Bad Science blog.
Heh. Russell Brand can sing, a bit, contrary to conventional wisdom. Shame about the fan vid. It’s like watching a peacock fidget around shrubbery. Hopefully someone will rip the scene from a pirated DVD screener. See also this Trey Parker/Alfred Packer classic, along similar lines.
The new BBC drama/black comedy Being Human is about a vampire, a werewolf and a ghost. It could have been really shit. I think it was pretty good. There were a few rough edges but that’s expected of a first episode. I was shocked that it had quality writing because BBC 3 gave us Two Pints of Lager and A Packet of Crisps. Which is right down there with the Vicar of Dibley. If you’re in the UK and you want some entertainment go here, to the BBC’s YouTube like service they rushed out when they realised they’d fucked up with the Kontiki/Microsoft DRM client (BBC: work on Dirac more, produce DVDs worth buying for the extras, and drop the DRM. With decent extras they will still sell.):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/page/item/b0090xff.shtml
If you’re not in the UK go find it on a tracker site. Buy the DVD (which won’t play unless you’ve got a multi-region DVD player) when it comes out, if you feel guilty. Which you shouldn’t. British License Fee payers have already paid for the episode. I’m a British License Fee payer and I don’t give a flying fuck.
A prediction, like Nostradamus, but not taking the piss in code: Being Human is likely to be bought as a concept for American television, or a me-too version. I reckon.
Very clever and an important message about belief.
Fox News Is Shit. From LNN.
Some things are tasteful. The best lyrics of any song in the last few years that I can think-of off-hand, and I’m at a reasonably befuddled point of a Friday night, is Chris Michaels by The Fiery Furnaces. Today, between 5am and 6am, there is rumoured to be a mock special forces snatch raid, by former special forces soldiers, staged on the Big Brother House (see The Sun’s exclusive). Presumably for the Big Brother Celebrity Hijack show broadcast Sunday or Monday night. To kidnap and interrogate some of the contestants. With the cooperation of the programme makers. Too much realism would be a very bad thing indeed because it’s the sort of thing that unhinges some people. Being jumped by three or four tough guys, handled rough, tied up, and tossed in a transit van, can be quite jarring of a morning. I presume the contestants have been screened for obvious psychological problems. If they’re made to wear orange jumpsuits I will lol. I probably shouldn’t.
Imagine a world before science: a world of the supernatural - hunches dictating belief, of sun blotting fallacy. For some seriously lolworthy quackery and pseudoscience watch hGosthunters in Ireland.
Human all too human (Heidegger). A cunt. There are clever cunts don’t ya know.
Thought for the day
There is nothing vile about vagina. Cunt is a deeply misogynistic word. However it does have emotional impact. If anyone has words with similar impact/utility that are less misogynistic please email me, I will use it instead. I feel a bit of a cunt using it.
