things you didnt even know you needed
As part of my selfless promotion of all things useful about Scotland as VisitScotland are pretty woeful at doing it I wuold highlight the opening of the latest department store to open in Glasgow.
Sellfridges open for business in Glasgow
Genius:http://twitter.com/sirfredgoodwin
Would appear the money grabbing git responsible in part for the economic crisis which has led to a number of friends and colleagues being laid off has a twitter page - ok maybe its a parody of what Sir Fred Goodwin will be up to - but TBH I dont care the guys a c**t.
So the more people who want to take a pop at this pratt, who resigned from his job at RBS rather than get sacked and then pockets a £650,000 pension and has no compunction that this a is a bit off, the better as far as I’m concerned.
I was just over at fubiz wasting a couple of minutes before having to read my way through more crap in my inbox. And I found some cool little images by Alexandre Efimov - apparently he’s from St Petersburg in Russia (I’m having an Elvis was a hero to most moment here as if I should know who he is and dont).
So thats him - off to listen to the telescopes radio station at last.fm to help me get through what is turning into an untterly crappy day.
I am thinking of going over to Amsterdam for a couple of days to get away from everything. You know the doom and gloom of the recession etc. Amsterdam one of my favourite beers, and also contains one of my favourite restaurants in the world so it seems like a prime opportunity.
I’ve been looking at either flying to amsterdam or getting the ferry to amsterdam and here’s my quandry so far.
So what should I do?
If anyone has travelled by ferry recently to Amsterdam or anywhere TBH can you let me know. I fly quite often so I know what to expect and I’ve not been on a ferry since (apart from St.Kiits to Nevis) and my last ferry across the north sea was over 20 years ago and all I remember doing is throwing up!
I was reading a post about onitsuka tigers over at Kanye Wests blog. And from the blogroll I found some mental posts over at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com - and thought I would share (no doubt ‘posting about posts at stuffwhitepeoplelike.com’ will be added to the list soon)
Nice posts to while away a lunch time - now I’m away to try and get an interview with Jerry Sadowitz (just need to find his email address)… answers on a post card please.
No doubt he’ll tell me to fuck off (again)!
Some times the simplistic brutality of a song time encompasses a whole concept and needs little explanation. I think this is one of them.
Thatcher Fucked the Kids by Frank Turner does remind me of Billy Bragg (not sure thats a good thing or not) but at the same time has made me smile. the song title is almost as good as “Bring me the head of Michael Portillo” by the Family Cat.
I still prefer the sheer hatred and anger of “IFWHITEAMERICATOLDTHETRUTHFORONEMINUTEITSWHOLEWORLDWOULDFALLAPART” by the Manic Street Preachers.
Cock! I’ve signed up for a 10K run - I can’t even be bothered walking to he pub so god knows why running over 6 miles seemed appealing. But we were in the office, we got chatting and thought lets do something absolutely stupid in the name of our masculinity and as a fop to pretend we’re not getting older. Until five minutes ago 10K was an esoteric figure, just a number and then I saw the course map - 10K is still 10K but there a giant hill smack bang in the middle of it! Completely forgot there might be an incline - 10K in the gym may be doable but climbing K2 in the middle less so. Click link below to have a shifty.
Cheers to Andy and Gav for convincing me this would be a great idea (in retrospect I think I may have been the one doing the convincing - I must have been drunk!)
Its a shame that the ‘Love me Tender’ Ad over @ AgentProvocateur takes so long to load. I sat at my desk, at work, waiting for the ad to load - and it was worth the wait but Jees it felt like I was waiting an eternity - probably increased server load.
Anyway I had never seen the little vixen (goes by the name of Rosie Huntington-Whiteley) so I thought a few of you would be interested in the following images:
Why is it that everyone believes that the changing of the digits in the year is going to herald a bigger, better year than that which has just finished? I’ll tell you why - because they’re desperate. This year looks like it will be full of more desperation than is usually to be found on the lines @ the Samaritans but hey - when you pump people full of credit, make them believe its their money and talk the language of entitlement for over a decade when the whole thing goes tits up who do you blame? If you’re big Gordon Brown you blame America. The whole credit led debacle aside anyone noticed all the cool stuff going on just now?
There is a point when we all lose control of our ability to understand the world around us. Simple things become very alien: coffee strired anti-clockwise becomes demonic, the red glow of a television on standby makes us wonder who chose that colour light and what posseses ‘celebrities’ to star in ‘I’m a celebrity get me out of here’. And every year I think that the penny will drop and this show will go the way of the dodo and fuck off and die.
