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It was lonely, really lonely

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The Beat Goes On

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So I have aged another year: no longer able to call myself an early twenty-something. Comfortingly, paranoid glances in the mirror reveal that crows feet are still a long way off. On the other hand, it seems neural degeneration has commenced in earnest. The most adult conversation had whilst making dinner this evening occurred after [...]

Charlotte Church intimidates me

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Barely 21, Welsh songstress-turned-TV-sleb Charlotte Church has announced that she’s preggers.
Come on Charlotte, just slow down and let the rest of us feel good about our achievements! You’ve already been a child star, successfully morphed your angelic-voiced 13-year-old self into a filthy-sounding twenty-something vixen without going off the rails like one of your American contemporaries. [...]

Neighbours at Christmas

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Check this out. Especially Harold’s dancing… {via lowculture}

Never mind, Mark Lamarr

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How good is Never Mind The Buzzcocks these days? Last night’s episode with John Barrowman and Daniel Be-ding-ding-ding-field was a masterpiece. Between bouts of coughing, we were all in stitches – even Davros, despite his disdain for all things poofy.
Hoorah Simon Amstell. I wish I’d shaken you by the hand that one time I bumped [...]

Not a spoof

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Least-appropriately named eyewitness in the history of television, on Flickr.
Whilst waiting for Broken News to start on BBC4, we were wondering whether they’d accidentally started broadcasting it on BBC News 24 when we heard a telephone interview given by the least-appropriately named eyewitness in the history of television…

On the glorious return of This Life

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Last week’s news of a one-off feature-length This Life extravaganza has had me making all sorts of excited noises. I doubt it will resolve the gnawing in my stomach when series two ended with all manner of cliffhangers in 1997. Foolishly I believed that rewatching all the episodes this summer would give me some closure, [...]

Wibble wobble

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Rather unexcitingly, I’ve been having one of those indeterminate little life wobbles recently, in which I’ve been feeling a little unsettled and generally grumpy most of the time. In an effort to shake this, I’ve been going out and seeing all sorts of good music, and consuming some wonderful things. None of these seems to [...]

The IT Crowd

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So who watched this on Channel 4 on Friday night? I hadn’t really intended to, but then I was struck down by the most violent cold I’ve had for a while, so I had no option but to guzzle smoothie and vegetate in front of our dinky little tellybox.
My initial thoughts? In no particular order: [...]

How To: Sex In The City

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Ingredients:
Four independent thirtysomething women (one slightly horsey)
A multitude of model-material boyfriends
A couple of screamingly camp gay friends
A warehouse of clothes that you never thought would work together
Shoes. With a capital S.
A slightly naughty theme tune
Method:
1. Four women in randomly chosen clothes from the Warehouse of Dysfunction appear. Outfits are groundbreaking (or just plain upsetting). We [...]