We all thought the efforts of the French football team in Japorea 2002 could not possibly be bettered in the category of Worst Defence Of A World Championship… Ever!(TM) but Our Boys (Rugby Union Variant) seem to be going balls-out for the crown in France at the moment. South Africa 36 England 0 and England were lucky not to find themselves alongside Leeds Untied in negative points territory.
Mind you, I will concede that it is a teensy, weensy disadvantage to go into a match against one of the best teams in the world without a fly-half…
(If anyone is interested in fulfilling a contract on the life of Matt Dawson, Inept Radio Five Live Summariser, please email your resume to the Minister.)
Anyway, just for the information of a certain short-arsed Bill Gates acolyte, I replaced my Mac’s memory this afternoon without incident (and in just a couple of minutes) and my pooter is currently soaring like ABBA’s Eagle. So fuck you, pal.
And finally, while I gather things do go downhill (Macy Gray guest stars in episode 17, for fucksake), after eight episodes on More4, it looks distinctly like NBC’s cancellation of the wonderful Studio 60 On The Sunset Strip is going to prove to be the most stupid TV network decision since ABC fucked over My So-Called Life.
How did we entertain ourselves before we had DVD box sets…?
“fuck you, pal”?
Did you read the Charlie Brooker thing? Is your Mac still the repository of an unwritten novel? He was talking about you sunshine…
(I actually only say this because I owe you a “critical appraisal of overly ambitious writing” reading favour, sweetums.)
oh, and “pooter”.
FOR FUCKS SAKE, DO YOU DOT YOUR “I”‘S WITH A LITTLE HEART?
and this is really not worth a separate post, but as the Minister seems to have treated this as an “AOB” post, I’ll join in.
Pakistan have lost to India in a “bowl out”, where three specialist bowlers had to bowl at unguarded stumps. None of the three Pakistan bowlers hit, and I repeat for emphasis, UNGUARDED stumps. Just how over-developed is their technique? It’s three lumps of wood only 22 yards away. Just fucking hit them, twat.
Just to alkalise the vitriol somewhat, can I say that whilst I am currently loving Studio 60 I caught a sneak peak on YouTube of a future episode with Alison Janney as guest host, which appears to do the Full Oceans Twelve atrocity of namechecking The West Wing a few times, whilst Josh and Chandler are basically standing around, not to mention Danny Concannon. The show has been accused by critics of being up its own arse and I fear it might one day come perilously close to so being.
I can quite see people’s point that whilst you couldn’t so easily deride the self-love of the characters in the West Wing as they were public servants working bloody hard for a very important cause, Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip is just a TV Show, so why is everyone so self-important? Whereas Toby and Sam occasionally wrote a great speech and someone in the show said so (thereby Sorkin congratulating himself on having written it) it is less palatable for a character on Studio 60 to say that a particular piece of writing is very funny (as sometimes it really isn’t – Sorkin is excellent at dialogue but not strictly gag-writing).
That said, the point Sorkin seems to be making within the show is that entertainment, art, culture, free speech and laughter are as important to people’s lives as anything else. As someone who happens to believe that this is true (I don’t see the point of eating if I can neither laugh nor dream) I fully endorse the show and am enjoying it very much as a sort of mini-West Wing in the TV Studio.