Christopher Reeve is dead. The obituary on Radio 4 is already taking the “de mortuis nil nisi bonum” approach a bit too far by claiming that Reeve “avoided typecasting”. I, for one, remember his Henry V with profound admiration. Good lad, though, as Will Rubbish would say.
Read MoreBob Geldof defends Blair and Brown against accusations that their campaign of assistance for the developing world is just an election stunt. It’s understandable that a populist stance like theirs should inspire cynicism. Everyone knows there are too many easy votes in helping out the fuzzy-wuzzies in Africa.
Read MoreI have posted many times about my immense Google karma. Today I have had a huge spike in hits (by my modest standards) because this post is number four match on Yahoo search for “Bigley decapitation“. A nervous hello to all my new readers—including the eloquent “Ben”.
Read MoreA poster going by the name of “YellowFeather” over at The Motley Fool has a theory why David Beckham thought it was okay to have the last “word” in his on-the-pitch feud with Thatcher [that’s the footballer, not the former UK Prime Minister or any of her relatives] during the England vs Wales World Cup […]
Read MoreThis is the kind of thing that happens when you let the Germans reunite and people stop hunting wild animals.
Read MoreI saw Collateral some time ago, but haven’t got round to writing about it, have nothing original to say, and feel slightly let down by Michael Mann (who is a god). It’s not that it’s a bad film; it is, in many ways, superb, but, like others who’ve seen it, I think that Mann or […]
Read MoreThe Anonymous Economist has emailed me this New York Times article which says something important about the state of the USA’s institutions: “Last Thursday, a federal district judge ordered a New York Times reporter, Judy Miller, sent to prison. Her crime was doing her job as the founders of this nation intended. Here’s what happened […]
Read More“From the crowds that hailed New Labour in 1997 to the despair of Kenneth Bigley is a vast emotional distance.” —editorial in The Independent, 09Oct04 This week, the same Tony Blair who had promised “Decapitation, decapitation, decapitation” at the 2000 Labour Party conference finally made good on his chilling promise. Standing before an endlessly looping […]
Read MoreThis is funny. [UPDATE: Link above now fixed.]
Read MoreIt’s amazing what you can pick up at the supermarket these days. [unmanipulated crop of the original scan, taken at the main Cambridge Sainsbury’s]
Read MoreOf course, if I did own a TV in this year of 2004, I could watch the alleged ex-lover of a waning international football star masturbate a pig. [Er, thanks, Laban.]
Read MoreNot having a television, I have only seen some online snippets of Sacha Baron-Cohen‘s comedy creation “Borat” before. Tomodachi at Susurration linked this week to a clip of an American hunter agreeing with the invented Khazakstani television presenter in front of cameras that it would be alright by him if the USA had a game […]
Read MoreBrian notes that Nigella Lawson is dissing British tertiary education. She’s right to do so. And I’d say that even I wasn’t picturing her doing the dissing in sub-fusc. [Blimey, I think that might have been some non-gratuitous Nigella. Am I getting old?
Read MoreThe Bratz are overtaking Barbie in toy sales. This harrowing Reuters photo shows various members of that posse of multiethnic dolls mugging the latter anorexic, plastic-boobed Arayan bint down an alley. Note that the leader of the gang, standing on the far-left, is Ashkenazi enforcer Eitan, a PooterGeek regular.
Read MoreDavid Duff has sent me two gracious emails. I was going to say this anyway from my geek’s perspective, but he stated in one of these emails—I believe truthfully—that he has never posted here or elsewhere under different names. As Chris Brooke notes David Duff has made some good contributions at the Stoa and he […]
Read MoreThere are some broken “arguments” that stupid people deploy with a smug smile and a fold of the arms time and time again. Subject to even superficial analysis these supposedly debate-clinching gambits break. You know the sort of idiot offerings I’m talking about: “I’m not racist, but flooding this country with people of another culture […]
Read MoreOne thing that has always surprised me about PooterGeek over the years is how good-natured and reasonable most of the comments here have been, compared to many ‘Blogs. ‘Bloggers have linked here commenting specifically on this strange phenomenon. Admittedly, PooterGeek is not a forum for free speech. I have deleted thousands of spam comments, suppressed […]
Read MoreEvery sexual taste is served by the Web. Today I direct those turned on by women stranded next to their broken-down motor vehicles and tanned navels to online sources of gratification.
Read MorePooterGeek Snr sent me this today. Yours’ll fall out one day, grandad.
Read MoreOn Monday, in an email generously entitled “Disgusting”, Claire sent me a link to an Observer article making much of quotes from unnamed aid workers. These quotes implied that the United States was exaggerating the severity of the crisis in Darfur for political ends. In the same email she linked to this story from the […]
Read MoreHak sent me a link to this article this morning. I can’t think why. [UPDATE: According to my server logs, someone has been directed to PooterGeek having searched Irish Google for “Nigella Lawson in leather catsuit“. He or she has no idea how sorry I am that I am unable to help.]
Read MoreMy rant about the British and sex before I went away got a result: two hot scientist babes contacted me privately to offer me correction. First, Helena, a specialist working on pathogenic species for the Wellcome Trust, pointed out that, despite my checking it twice, I had misspelled “chlamydia”. Then Leasey, co-author on this Nature […]
Read MorePooterGeek’s Catholic Affairs correspondent texted me from the beatification ceremony in Rome yesterday. Apparently it was very hot.
Read MoreAt my sister’s I also took advantage of access to Sky Sports to watch Villa draw entertainingly away at Blackburn. These are two Premiership teams so ordinary their shirts are sponsored by firms you’ve never heard of, yet the speed and quality of the play was so much better than, say, ten years ago, that […]
Read MoreWith thanks to The Motley Fool, I recommend you check out “The God Frequently Asked Questions“.
Read MoreI also no longer buy either the London Review of Books or The Independent (daily or Sunday). I think I should go further and stop reading spare copies of either journal. Reviewing paperbacks in the broadsheets is occasionally delegated to some emptyheaded twentysomething trustafarian, but Laurence Phelan in the Sunday Independent should be given a […]
Read MoreOn trains this weekend I have been mostly reading other people’s newspapers. Turn to page 47 of someone else’s Saturday Guardian magazine and gasp at the advertisement for skin whitening cream illustrated by a fair-skinned mixed-race couple kissing.
Read MoreHarry “Chase Me Ladies” Hutton wants to be Britain’s top Nazi. So far, he is only fourth. PooterGeek possesses terrifyingly high levels of Google karma. My blessing is all that stands between him and the status he craves. Arise, Sir Harry, and welcome to your place at the head of the British National Party.
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