Mar 14

Steak & Blowjob Day

I heard of this a year or two ago, but here’s a reminder – today is Steak & Blowjob Day!

From the Facebook event:

Mark it down, cross the days off, and keep your calendar open on March 14th. As many of you may or may not know, guys don’t have a day for themselves. After Hallmark created Valentines on February 14th, a day in which men get to display their fondness and undying love to their significant other by showering them with gifts and affection, guys started getting depressed.

March 14th is now officially “Steak and Blowjob Day”. Simple, effective and self explanatory, this holiday has been created so you ladies finally have a day to show your man how much you love him. No cards, no flowers, no special nights on the town; the name of the holiday explains it all, just a steak and a BJ. That’s it. Finally, this twin pair of Valentine’s Day and Steak and Blowjob Day will usher in a new age of love as men everywhere try THAT much harder in February to ensure a memorable March 14th. It’s like a perpetual love machine!

Ladies, take note!

Feb 14

Valentine’s Day Personals

I don’t ‘do’ memes usually, but this one from Flash’s blog tickled me enough to spend 10 minutes doing it: write a personals ad for yourself.

Rules: 1. It has to make you sound as unappealing as possible; 2. It has to be honest – you can’t lie at all; 3. It can’t sound as though you’re deliberately making yourself sound unappealing; 4. Assume that you are single or otherwise available/looking, even if you are very much not.

So:

Loud Northern gobby mentally unstable bloke seeks woman for soul-mate stuff. I take photos, write music, download porn and enjoy absconding on spontaneous outings at all hours of the day. I like cats, and if you have any small rodents they’re fine too – especially if I can feed them to the cats. I’m an avid carnivore and foodie, believing that if something living was put on this planet and it isn’t human, it was put there for me to try to eat it: veggies and vegans need not apply. I also enjoy my beer. I have two children who will always come before you – they have to like you, be able to play with you, and come with us on outings – that’s very important to me. 6ft4, rather wicked sense of non-PC humour, will try anything once – bring Duracells.

Your turn :)

Update: I’m a retard, I read it wrong: “as unappealing as possible” is not what I read it as. Therefore I shall re-draft.

Update #2: Re-drafted. Tho I thought the original was better.

Oct 14

Rediscovering ‘The Orchestra’

Many, many years ago – well, 1987ish – I discovered this programme on Channel 4 called The Orchestra, which consisted of a story told in mime and slapstick centered around a conductor called Julian Joy-Chagrin. The programme was prone to being shifted in favour of cricket, football, racing, well pretty much anything, so I ended up only seeing two or three episodes.

Since then, I have been on the search for copies of the programme. Tonight I was pottering around a few torrent sites when I thought I’d have a look (finding nothing as usual), but one thing led to another and I googled to see if I could find a DVD. Imagine my utter surprise and delight when I found Greg Donner’s website complete with downloads of all 10 episodes! Hurrah – but go easy on his bandwidth (for VHS rips they really aren’t bad quality either).

It is quite hard to find anything online about this show, so it’s a real find to not just get episode lists, but the episodes themselves.

(btw – in case you were wondering, the copyright on this is probably something of a murky area – the company owning the rights wents titsup and under Israeli law it’s got very confused!)