Archives: 2007 August
Eww, Eww, Ewww: Friday Night Food Blogging
August 31st, 2007, No Comments
This is the most disgusting recipe I’ve read in a very long time, worse even than that vile, vile wingnut pizza monstrosity Sadly, No featured a while ago.
From Norwegianity:
I sooooo have to serve these prize-winning tidbits at Chez Observer’s next cocktail party:
SPAM Taco wontons
Makes 36 to 48 wontons.
From Lynda Decker, winner of [...]
Headline Of The Day
August 31st, 2007, 2 Comments
If not the week, if not the decade so far…
Dwarf Superglues Todger To Hoover
‘The most embarrassing moment of my life’
By Lester Haines
Published Monday 20th August 2007 11:59 GMT
Staff at the Royal Infirmary of Edinburgh battled for an hour to disconnect the penis of Captain Dan The Demon Dwarf from a hoover after the diminutive Fringe [...]
Comedy Double
August 31st, 2007, 1 Comment
BBC radio panel shows are where standup comedians go to die…. well, OK, maybe that is a little harsh, but there is a grain of truth in it. Look how many ‘alternative’ comedians of the seventies, eighties and even earlier are now Radio 4 panel game stalwarts. Graeme Garden is one such and has [...]
Comment of The Day
August 30th, 2007, No Comments
Today’s comes from an understandably anomymous correspondent via the Independent’s letters section and is aimed at all those who’d punish today’s parents for the actions of their children:
The plight of parents when teenagers get out of control
Sir: Much has been made of poor parenting (letters, 18 August). No doubt there are parents who do not [...]
Living Dangerously And Liking It.
August 29th, 2007, No Comments
I found this excellent photo diary of a day in the life of Amsterdam bike culture as compared to that of San Francisco, as seen from what appears to be a Nieuwmarkt cafe table, and one of the things the American diarist seems most perturbed by is bikes with multiple passengers.
Here in typical Dutch [...]
Cheaper Health Insurance For Dutch Vegetarians
August 29th, 2007, No Comments
This‘ll be good news for my Dutch brother and sister in law, whose combined BMI (Body Mass Index, a measure of obesity) must be about 5, if that. When you look at the processed, deepfried crap that even Dutch vegetarians consume it’s odd they’re all so thin at all. It must be all the cheese.
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The [...]
Lost Mislaid, One Mojo
August 29th, 2007, No Comments
Dunno what it is, but ever since I’ve came back from holiday I’m finding it hard to raise any enthusiasm at all for blogging.
Of course as is absolutely bloody typical the moment I walked away from the keyboard, thinking “It’s the silly season, nothing will happen” then bam bam bam – Rove, Gonzales and [...]
Do They Think We’re Stupid? (That Was A Rhetorical Question)
August 25th, 2007, 2 Comments
Although it keeps getting taken down from Youtube for unspecified terms of use violation, here’s footage of peaceful protesters stopping police provocateurs from starting a riot at the Stop the SPP protests in Montebello Quebec. CEP President Dave Coles confronts men armed with rocks and sticks:
Black bloc my ass.
The police say they know [...]
Modern Mobsterism, or Republican Ratfuckery or “Nice Family You Got there. Shame If Anything Happened to It…”
August 22nd, 2007, No Comments
A NY state Republican political thug ‘consultant’, Roger J. Stone Jr., is alleged to have been harassing the 83 year old father of the Democratic attorney general, Elliot Spitzer, with threatening late night phone calls – traceable directly back to aforesaid thug “consultant”.
True to GOP form, Stone is denying everything despite a lot [...]
