Somedays you just can’t say what you’ve been doing and you really really yearn for an anonymous blog. (Eh, Andrew?), but there’s nothing I can do about it now. In the meantime, if anyone can remember the rules of “Who rang who last, and a missed call counts more than a text, and you can’t [...]

So it’s eventually my turn to do what (I gather) all bloggers do at somepoint or other, and that’s to comment about their comments. I can’t find the exact post but the rather popular Diamond Geezer once made a classic observation, that a thoroughly researched post/effort with informative facts and opinions and lots of photos [...]

Lots of iPod stuff to clear up: First, I had a guy email me out of the blue the other day asking me if he could buy my iPod poster off of me which appears in the iVideo that we made. “It would really brighten up my student wall room!”, he writes, “And as I [...]

I was going to buy the new Mike Gayle novel today, until I found that it had yet another sickeningly ingratiating ‘thanks’ section (as per his last book which was shit), and so it put me right off buying it and I started scanning the shelves of WHSmiths for something else instead. I didn’t actually [...]

“So how comes you need a new vacuum cleaner then?” asks Gill, the super friendly customer services assistant to me in my local Sainsbury’s this afternoon. I’m down there buying a new Dyson, only they haven’t got any out on the shelves, so I’ve had to ask at the customer services desk to see if [...]

Am at work today – Sunday – and have just realised that Top of the Pops is now on at the weekends … so is anyone dead famous in the building today? [Looks up dressing room schedules online...] Oh yay! The Robster, the psycho-bitch with the large chest, and the rather cool Kanye West are [...]

It would rude not to mention ‘Yet another one of those crazy internet quest things’ – as I’m partial to them myself – and someone (called Pete!) has made me aware of the website www.thepetecollective.co.uk – where a chap called Pete is trying to get together as many people with the same name as him, [...]

I keep forgetting to mention the fact that i got to visit the Mecca of Geoff’s life last week whilst on tour ooop north, when I realised that I was in the near vicinity of the Fox’s Biscuits factory which is located in Batley, just south of Leeds. In case you’re not quite clear on [...]

When, when … when will I ever learn? “Grrr”. Still ‘Precious’ is now on 93 plays in four days, which even by my standards is a fuck of a lot. And I now know that I’ll never forget this week whenever I hear it in years to come as it’s now irevocably linked, and that [...]

There’s too much good music around at the moment. Either that, or my musical tastes are finally widening as there seem to be just too many ‘current’ songs that I like too much. Consider this – I’ve got playlists on my iPod of all my favourite tunes from the last five years, and have called [...]

Come on boys. Don’t let us down at the final hurdle. I shall be glued to Channel 4 (as I suspect a lot of the country will be) for most of the day – whilst at work!

Last week, whilst driving back through Blackburn with contributor Paul, he starts to sing the Beatles classic “A day in the life”. I didn’t get the relevance, until I’d dug out my iPod and found the bit that of course goes: “I read the news today oh boy, Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire. And [...]