Death Threats are a compliment

If the only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about and you accept that usually the best sportsmen get booed because of petty jealousy, then can there be anything more flaterring than being recipient of a death threat? A death threat sounds like a very scary thing to get.  I’ve seen […]

Words I like to use a lot: Part 1

Tedious I love this one….teeeedious.  You are sooo teeeedious. It’s a great way to illustrate disregard for someone or something. Teeeedious. “Did you hear that new Oasis single?” “Oh, God.  Oasis *heavy sigh*  Oasis are sooo teeedious.  The cursing, the drinking, the repetitive chords.  I mean, why?” “How did your date go last night?” “Not […]

The social stigma of reading

I’ve just bought my third copy of “The God Delusion“.  Not because I feel the need to boost Richard Dawkins coffers, but rather because I left one copy on a plane and gave a second copy to a friend who I had, ironically, flown to see on the plane in which I left the first […]

It don’t matter if you’re black or white

I got a bit of a fright today when I realised that I might actually be racist. I was sitting on the stationary bike (un-moving as opposed to made of office supplies) at the gym, a little TV screen 12 inches from my face, broadcasting music video after music video.  About 95% of them featured […]

Unloved guitarist

I saw an acoustic guitarist busking away at the top of Grafton Street this evening.  A small crowd – maybe a half-dozen people – gathered to listen to his musical prose.  He played some hippy-style seventies tune (probably Wings or something) and received a smattering of applause from the handful of passers-by. As he started […]

A Weighty Issue

Wearing the radio I was, for some reason, lying in bed with the radio on at 4am recently (“Had you got no pyjamas?” laughed a wag at the back of the hall). I overheard an interview with an English lady going on about some book she’d written about losing weight and the more I heard […]

Do not ring my wife again

It’s been a while since I’ve blogged (which is usually the first line of every blog I do given my inherent laziness).  I naturally prefer to attempt blogs that might possibly make you smile or laugh or spit on the screen or whatever.  But occasionally I feel the need to write something a little more […]

A Day at Dr 9tendo’s surgery

Dr 9tendo knows that not everyone can be a computer whizz. So with that in mind Dr 9tendo’s Surgery is now open for business, giving you the best free computer tips this side of sticking the new Sony Vaio down your pants and running out of Dixons. So if you think that a megahertz is […]

TevezTubby is a bit of a Dipsy

TEVEZTUBBY IS A BIT OF A DIPSY No one likes footballers, that’s for sure.  Bling, roastings, tinted windows – the list of reasons to loathe our heroes goes on and on.  But Carlos TevezTubby has thrown this perception on its head.  The man, who has been linked away from West Ham since the day he […]