Thank you for the truly helpful and insightful comments you’ve emailed/posted about the rough mixes of my latest song. I have tried to take them all into consideration in making these: big MP3 [5 MB] smaller MP3 [3 MB] Windows Media [2.5 MB] Ogg [4 MB] Cliff’s sharp ears in particular generated a lot of […]
Read MoreBridget Jones II is so bad on so many levels that it will be difficult for me to keep this post deservingly short. If you’re in a hurry, read my title. [But first, in answer to Eric’s thoughtful enquiry, I have not been following anything like my usual routine lately. That, my being ill over […]
Read MoreOver the weekend, Judith told me that a feature-length adaptation of Brideshead Revisited is being planned. For this version, the Catholicism will be toned down. This is the sort of thing Evelyn Waugh might have written into a satire of Hollywood. [“Waugh’s a man? Is he some kind of faggot?!”] Maybe we can petition to […]
Read MoreI’ve been in bed for the past couple of days with a nasty little dose of food poisoning. On reflection, it was probably the Stilton, bacon, and red onion baguette that did for me. It tasted wonderful at the time. Because of my illness I’ve been listening to lots of radio. On Friday, as the […]
Read MoreI meant to say thank you to Nicholas and Hind for dinner yesterday. In fact it was my discovering that Adam, the latest addition to their family, looks exactly like Nicholas, but smaller and a bit more Arab, that made me post about the Karzai photo. Thanks for the “Death to the Zionist Infidels” shopping […]
Read MoreA frequent correspondent points me to this story in which Jean-Claude Juncker, the Prime Minister of Luxembourg, takes exception to the Prime Minister of Iraq describing non-participants in the liberation of his country as “spectator” states. My correspondent suggests that, rather than apologize to Juncker, Allawi should have told the esteemed European leader to “go […]
Read MoreVia the BBC I notice disturbing evidence of another political dynasty in the making: Karzai’s Mini Me
Read MoreThis is why my dad suffered at the hands of Jesuits: so his son’s ‘Blog could be number three in the world for “Evil Catholic Authoritarianism“.
Read MoreWhy do people take hallucinogenic drugs, when sleep deprivation is so effective and cheap? I actually jumped back from the counter in the spotlessly clean local fish-and-chip shop this evening because I thought I saw a rat crawl near my feet. Sitting up all night to get strange kicks would deprive the posh user of […]
Read MoreThanks to Claire for this one from The Guardian. Here’s one that was changed at the source, so I only have a screenshot of the Google News link. And this one is from those sexually liberated Aussies.
Read MoreThank you to the people who were nice about my music. I’d just like to point out that Barry W, who I swear I have never even heard of before, was scarily perceptive on all fronts when (after being nice) he typed: “It had a real film soundtrack feel to it – I saw a […]
Read MoreI was wrong. The one who looks like Alfred E. Neumann beat the one who looks like Frankenstein’s monster. Talking of Frankenstein and his monster, below you can read one of those strange PooterGeek entries where I write nothing about something and a debate breaks out over the something I said nothing about.
Read MoreSorry if any of the previous entries are glitchy. I am knackered. Do you know what time it is?
Read MoreCatastrophic irony failure: yesterday’s You And Yours on Radio 4 juxtaposed an item about Eliot Spitzer’s deliciously successful strike against price fixing in the US insurance industry with one about how a local authority in the Taunton area wants pubs and bars in the area to introduce a “minimum drink price” scheme to reduce binge […]
Read MoreYes, I’ve been away for a couple of days, making music. In the past, bands I have sung with have banned me from writing songs on my own, because, without a collaborator to keep me in check, mine all sound like the work of Lenny Kravitz armed with a thesaurus. Working alone for the first […]
Read MoreThoughtful James Hamilton might come by to say something about this one. The Economist this week has a fascinating piece [subscription only] about the decline in suicide rates in the UK. No one has a sure explanation for why the numbers of men and women killing themselves in Britain have declined by tens of percent […]
Read MoreI could rant for England on the subject of the Common Agricultural Policy, but I can’t seem to get very worked up about the European Constitution. This might be stupidity on my part, but what exactly would happen if, after we’ve signed it, a future UK government just refused to accept some part of it […]
Read MoreYou can tell the daylight hours are shrinking. The Growth Of The Bored
Read MoreScrew the polls. Screw the pundits. Screw Osama. I’m sticking by my prediction that Kerry will win, not that I can enter Norm’s competition. I’d bet about twelve pence on John Kerry becoming President of the United States of America. I also want Kerry to win, but not very much. Here’s The Economist expressing a […]
Read MoreThe West Bank: members of the Official Palestinian Smurf Fan Club crown this year’s winner of the Papa Smurf lookalike contest. Who’s The Daddy?
Read MoreMy friend Leasey told me today that she and her girlfriends are going to take me out “on the pull” to a place where repetitive beats are played and alcoholic drinks are served. She has ordered me not to wear my “gay trousers” lest the straight women think I am not interested in them. Apparently […]
Read MoreThe ‘Blog Abbreviated To SIAW has written nice things about me recently, but I would have enthused about its accurate summary of the BBC’s celebrity-based current affairs presenting anyway: “[Kirsty] Wark, in her usual not exactly self-effacing way, frequently interrupted both to summarise their remarks, put words in their mouths and generally make sure that […]
Read MoreWhen the subject of British public attitudes to genetically modified organisms comes up at Genome Campus breaktime conversations I tend to make two standard contributions. I rail against the “Frankenfood” hysteria of the UK tabloid press (not to mention the bloody Archers) that has all but prevented a rational debate on the subject. I advance […]
Read MoreLive from next month, more of “Pooter’s Futures“: The Middle East The body of one of the militants believed to have been responsible for the bombing of the Hilton hotel in Taba on Egypt’s border with Israel has been washed up on a bank of the river Nile near the Egyptian town of Aswan. When […]
Read MoreThis morning I’d just like to thank Judith for making PooterGeek third highest Google hit for “visible thong above trousers“. I need all the help I can get in improving the quality of the visitors here.
Read More“Sony launches music players with MP3 support” There’s a headline to put alongside “Microsoft acknowledge importance of Internet, release Explorer Web browser”; Sony have also been years too late, but they don’t have a monopoly they can use to crush the opposition anyway. Perhaps they can take advantage of the 80s revival instead and release […]
Read MoreAs predicted, Ruud is getting his comeuppance and, also following that post and the associated commentary, Football365 has a round-up of the varied press on the Biggest Game of The Season So Far. In response to the commenter who complained that Arsenal had been doing so well because “premiership teams oil themselves up and bend […]
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