Accentmonkey tumbles

Aug
29th

Fri

Mixing poetry with policy and handcuffing John McCain to President George W Bush, he added: ‘This moment, this election, is our chance to keep in the 21st century the American promise alive.’

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RTÉ News: Dem convention ends with Obama speech

Perhaps it’s the abstracter in me, but really, the use of the word “handcuffs” seems a little OTT here.

Aug
9th

Sat

New Statesman - The village Olympics

Sometimes I get to read great wee things in my job.

Aug
8th

Fri

Buy one kill one

Yeah, there’s a lot of people not very happy about putting this kind of blame on folks.

Edinburgh festival comedy review: Matt Kirshen | Culture | guardian.co.uk

Hmm. Not a rapturous review. I advise seeing his show if you like atheistic, science-based jokes at the expense of religious Americans, though.

Lost creator JJ Abrams' new show Fringe snapped up by Sky | Media | guardian.co.uk

Please let this be good please let this be good please let this be good.

Aug
5th

Tue

Anna Pickard reviews the trailer for Hamlet 2 | Film | guardian.co.uk

I’ve got a pretty high tolerance for daft things newspapers put on the Internet in order to remain “relevant” or “afloat” or whatever you want to call it. But this? Surely the only purpose of a second-by-second breakdown of a movie trailer must be to be funny. But this is not funny.

It is not funny at all.

Aug
2nd

Sat

They’re like couch potatoes watching Finding Nemo on DVD who’ve suffered some kind of brain haemorrhage which has led them to believe the story they’re watching is real, that their screen is filled with water and talking fish, and that that’s all there is to reality - just them and that screen and Nemo - and when you run into the room and point out the DVD player and the cables connecting it to the screen, and you open the windows and point outside and describe how overwhelming the real world is - when you do all that, it only spooks them. So they go on believing in Nemo, with gritted teeth if necessary.

— Charlie Brooker’s screen burn | Culture | The Guardian

Jul
30th

Wed

Al Gore Places Infant Son In Rocket To Escape Dying Planet | The Onion - America's Finest News Source

I know, I know, linking to an Onion article, but it just made me laugh. Actually properly laugh.

Jul
28th

Mon

And you’ve fucking stripped it out like a pissed Irish plasterer restoring a renaissance fresco and thinking jesus looks shit with a bear so plastering over it.

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Read Giles Coren’s letter to Times subs | Media | guardian.co.uk

Oh Giles Coren. You’re getting a kick up the bum from me if I ever get a hold of you.

Jul
26th

Sat

Having coffee now! The excitement!