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arbitrary constant (Free subscription) | 12/02/2009
Chris Addison on politics and media in his Evening Standard column. When I was growing up in the 1980s one of the national playground pastimes was to approach some innocent and ask, “Are you a bummer tied to a tree?” On receiving the inevitable answer “No,” you would then career round the playground, yelling “Bummer on the loose!” This is what I'm reminded...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
Atheists, rationalists, humanists...here's the Christmas antidote you've been waiting for. Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People , hosted by Robin Ince, is described as 'a fractured variety version of the Royal Institute [ Sic. ] lectures mixing acclaimed evolutionary biologists with multi award-winning comedians and musicians'. When you look at the acts, it's hard to come up with any...
Sleeping Like A Blog (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009
I have some spare tickets for the BBC Comedy Presents... night at the Bloomsbury Theatre. This is a very exclusive event (venue only holds a few hundred) and it sold out in minutes. The tickets are £7.50 each, and the lineup includes TV's Chris Addison ('The Thick Of It') as well as a special guest headliner, likely to be another TV comedy personality. Would anyone like to come...
Sycophant. (Free subscription) | 12/05/2009
... charismatic) lad called Jack singing 'Mr Blue Sky', Margaret Cabourn-Smith singing 'All I Want For Christmas (she apologised because "it is impossible to not sound like a cunt while singing this song") and Chris Addison and Jessica Hynes singing 'Fairytale of New York' by The Progues. My friend Will gave another storming performance (singing the male part of Sonny...
