the simply ENORMOUS wank-fest going on over at NBC quite as much as I am? 

INFO (For the British portion of my flist): the issue is basically over who is the bigger star - the current presenter of the Tonight Show (the delightful Conan O Brien who is pure comedy gold and the reason I 'acquire' the Tonight Show on a daily basis) and the former presenter of the Tonight Show, Jay Leno (used to be OK but well past his sell-by IM oh so HO - not to mention poor Jimmy Fallon who is piggie in the middle and getting getting totally shafted). Honestly people, even if you don't watch the shows or know the personalitites involved, go google because this is a glorious wank-storm of the purest kind with both sides bitching at each other on national TV, bwahahahaha!

Believe me, it's FANDOM WANK being played out on a massive stage and I'm loving it (and so is Ricky Gervais if Wednesday's show was anything to go by). Even Larry Saunders never came close to anything half so good.

If you love wank, you'll love this. ::makes shooing gestures. waves Conan-supporter flag::

And can't believe no one's mentioned Dan Castellaneta, flying the plane!

Homer bloody Simpson!

Well, that's my evening made. But I'm a simple soul, it doesn't take much

...called 55brianb has uploaded a load of trade test transmission films to You Tube (yes, I'm still on You Tube). Remember those, children? They used to show them during the day on BBC2 back when there hardly any daytime TV at all. They include Light, which my sister and I still quote (how beautiful you are on the retina of my eye...! heh) and my own favourite, the magnificent Paint.

I remember them so well. I've been watching them all day! I know, I be bad but I'm a grown up now, I can do what I want. *g*

it's Alan Bennett Night tonight on BBC2, and HIGMNFY and The Thick of It.

This is excellent news, this almost makes up for the fact that I shall have to go into the icy garden in a moment to lift and shift a wild cherry tree.

But the news that Buster has died has upset me more than words can say.

Waiting for Peep Show, I flipped over to ITV3 and 'Life' where there's a character called Jimmy Ellison. Alas, he's nothing like our Jimmy Ellison.

A man looking much more like our Jimmy is currently stripping off his clothes and pretending to shave over on Fiver, should UK people be in the mood for that sort of thing (and not waiting for Peep Show).

Mark's in the bath, Basement Cat is here, warming his paws on the Aga.

Quiet in here, isn't it?

This was a bit of a shock - don't know why, I barely remember the chap, pretty much before even my extensive time but even so, a pop-culture icon to be sure, another piece of our collective history gone.

Simon Dee has died.

I've been eagerly waiting for this to 'appear' ::cough:: in the usual places but no sign so far, but good old You Tube, they don't just help with the nasty things in life, always there for you whenever you need it. Now if only i could find that copy of Fly Fishing by JR Hartley*...

The Mighty Boosh on Jimmy Fallon

Feeling a wee bit delicate this morning, owing to Dad making toast at 4am and setting the smoke alarm off not once but twice and making the dog howl, then putting on a DVD of 'The Eddie Duchin Story', very very loudly indeed. Mo coffee plz nurse.


*But no, they have that too, she said with a cheeky-fox of a wink.

and bringeth succour to all prevaricators.

Mark and I had an exchange of views inspired by watching the highly animated Alan Haven in The Music of Lennon and McCartney
Got worms from the look of it, poor chap
Is that what happens when you get worms, go ape shit crazy on a Hammond organ?
Or piles.
Must’ve been sitting on a cold step. You’d think his mother would know better than to let him.

Gosh, the flare on that guitar is so nostalgic, you don't see black and white, 405 line weirdness like that these days, deed you don't. Marianne Faithfull looks exactly like Marina off Stingray, she even moves her head like there are strings attached. I'm on a mid-sixties thing now and feel the sudden need to watch Tomb of the Cybermen, or maybe Bedazzled - the real one, not that thing with Brendon thingy and whatserface.

No, I haven't been drinking even though it is FRIDAY! my darling dearios. May it shine like a great shiny orb for you all. Permission to blow kisses!. XXX

David Tennant's doing voice-over for Tesco? Is there nothing, no one they do not own?! Armando Iannucci's predictions grow ever closer and I for one, am terrified. I'm holing up behind the sofa for the duration. ::nods::