Monday, May 15, 2006

Late lollies

First the important business. NoiZyboy informs us that while the Sun may refer to our muse's breasts as her "lady bazzers" or her "sauce shelf", Scarlett prefers to call them simply her "girls". Awww.

Stephen offers this funny from Tim Blair and Mark Steyn on the gospel according to St Judas, which Steyn says
contains a number of religious themes which are completely alien to the first-century world of Jesus and Judas, but which did become popular later, in the second century AD. An analogy would be finding a speech claiming to be written by Queen Victoria, in which she talked about The Lord Of The Rings and her CD collection
From Chris we have Stephen Fry and Christopher Hitchens debating blasphemy on The Guardian's latest Culture Vulture podcast (from last year's Guardian Hay Festival).

Also, British comedian Chris Langham has been charged with 15 counts of making indecent images of children. Langham, who played psychiatrist Peter opposite Paul Whitehouse in the excellent Help said he was devastated to have been charged with the offences and is anxious to clear his name.

A funny video of a cabbie mistakenly interviewed on the recent Apple court case by the BBC. And, finally from Chris, a gripe: on Thursday 11 May, TV One's Breakfast featured Random House NZ's publisher promoting “Random House/NZ Book Month Gift Book Award” to “support local writers”. Sadly, entries for submissions closed on 5 May. If you really want to support NZ writers, guys, how about giving us a bit more notice?

Not much from me this week, but I did rediscover the 3am magazine literary website and especially like this "flash fiction" or short short story, Mason and The Man.

Ciao.

3 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

Turns out the 'cabbie' was actually a highly skilled IT professional at the Beeb for a job interview...

ed

2:15 PM  
Blogger Rob O'Neill said...

Hope he got the job. Did well winging it like that.

4:19 PM  
Blogger Chris Bell said...

I was expecting some whizz-bang technology in the "flash fiction" and so was slightly disappointed that it was "just" a short short. I must go back and re-read the story, though, as it certainly made some kind of impression.

1:48 PM  

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