Posted on 25th June 2009, 6:01pm
F is for Fast Ferrari but also for Falsity
It has been said that the internet is one of the greatest inventions of the modern age, having transformed the way we live our lives from communication to business. It allows us to book train tickets, purchase computers, and communicate with friends and family, all without having to reach across and pick up the phone. It allows spotty teenagers to express their ill-founded opinions, it enables friendless bedroom-bound loners to socialise in multiplayer online games, and encourages us all to befriend all sorts of people to make our Facebook page look more impressive.
Okay, maybe I’m being a little too negative, but then it is the first paragraph, and it’s always good to grab your audience by the throat from the outset and say something to catch people’s attention. It’s a well-used PR technique too, which leads me nicely onto the subject matter I’m tiptoeing around in this blog post. The cat is out of the bag – we know who the Stig is.
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Posted on 7th May 2009, 9:43am
A is for Alphabet
Bank holidays always seem to creep up on me and take me by surprise. I can’t quite put my finger on why, but where most people live for their days off and eagerly anticipate any excuse not to go into work, the novelty has never really hit home for me. As such the day never really gets noticed in my diary, and it usually takes someone to remind me that it’s happening for me to realise that I don’t have to do any work that day. Maybe it’s because I work from home. Maybe it’s because I’m just not very observant. Maybe it’s because I don’t do enough with bank holidays for it to be special enough to look forward to. Maybe.
Anyway, on Monday it was a bank holiday, and since Ellie had reminded me of that fact I just about remembered not to do any work. Which was a good thing, because we’d arranged to go round to Anne-Marie’s house to watch Takin’ over the Asylum, a BBC series from a couple of decades ago starring a very young David Tennant, set in a loony bin mental health hospital with a would-be DJ trying to get a hospital radio station up and running. It wouldn’t work today, of course, which explains why it was never repeated, but now that’s it’s on DVD (mainly due to David’s popularity, no doubt) it’s become a quick favourite among Tennant fans. So Anne-Marie made us invited us to watch it with her on Monday. All of it. All 6 episodes of it. And it was hilarious.
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