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- Notes from beyond the beach bar (i)
This is old stuff for committed blog readers, but hey - I came to this late, so get over it already. And I’m on holiday, didn’tcha know?
Anyway, Kottke gets it right with his rules for the New York City subway, best summed up by his exhortation to “Act more like a particle and less [...]
- Notes from beyond the beach bar
Right. Damn it all. I’m off to Ibiza. In the words of those pop immortals, The Vengaboys:
“Hello Party People!
This Is Captain Kim Speaking
Welcome Aboard Venga Airways
After Take Off Will Pump Up The Soundsystem
Cause We’re Going To Ibiza!”“But what!” you cry, “of Completetosh!?”
Well, thanks to the wonder of the interweb, occasional posts shall drip onto this [...]
- Coming soon: CSI New York
Great news. Hollywoodreporter.com reports: “The city that never sleeps will soon be the backdrop of the next incarnation of CBS’ CSI franchise, the network confirmed Saturday.”
Hurrah. In the Tosh household, it’s the only show conferred complete, must-watch-in-utter-silence status. The kind of silence that involves the ending of conversations, switching on of amplifiers for better sound, [...]
- Scottish football shocker: sense prevails
Scottish football has voted to return to widely accepted, long-held sporting principles today, and decided to reward success, and punish failure. Inverness Caley Thistle are to be promoted to the SPL after all, with Partick Thistle relegated to the first division. My regular reader will recall I banged on about this a while back. Yesterday’s [...]
- A definition of disrepute
From this morning’s Guardian we learn some interesting things about Croatia’s tactics for tonight’s decisive Group B clash with England. Of Wayne Rooney, the talented - if somewhat short-fused - England striker, Croatian goalkeeper Joey Didulica muses: “If we can provoke him in the right way, he’ll definitely lash out.”
He continues. “The manager has told [...]
- Scotland’s tartan bigots
To Clapham last night, with an English friend, to watch England take on France in the teams’ opening match in Euro 2004. I was supporting England, but we decided to go to a French bar and restaurant to enjoy a little more atmosphere - and much better food - than you’d get in most places. [...]
- Torture and rumours of torture
Journalist Seymour Hersh has been speaking at the University of Chicago, and one of blogger Prof. Brad Delong’s correspondents has passed on notes from the event. It’s says something awful that this kind of story, once easily dismissed as hard left fantasy, now has an air of reality, even predictability. But it’s still bad enough [...]
- Eee aye eee aye eee aye oh, it’s up the football league championship wossname we go
Terrible things happen to sporting championships when you start messing around with the format.
Just ask the Scottish Premier League or - sorry - the Scottish Premierleague - whoops, no - the SPL. Back in the 90s, not content with being unfairly branded a “Mickey Mouse league” by anyone south of the border, Scottish football’s [...]
- Happy news only, thanks
My regular reader will recall that, last month, I wrote about the Times of India and Bombay Times selling editorial space to advertisers. Yes, that’s right - if you felt your new department store wasn’t getting the coverage it deserved, you could stump up and get it pictured on the front page. And no reader [...]
- Great unlikely parliamentary exchanges (i)
The big news peg from today’s NotCon geek gathering in London was, by a long chalk, the launch of Theyworkforyou.com. This new website lets you search parliamentary records for speeches and written answers, and brings together information on what your MP has been up to from a variety of sources (including the Guardian).
So, naturally, I’ve [...]
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