I just watched four Dawson’s Creek episodes in a row. Have I, somehow, wasted an evening? Well, anyway, it included episode 611 where Jack and David eventually kiss (review). The annual gay kiss was somewhat lacking in any emotion. Still you do get to look at Kerr Smith!
2003: Writer’s Block?
2002: Hope I Haven't Missed Your Birthday
A regular Tuesday morning in London. Like millions of other commuters around the capital I head for work in something of a daze. Londoners are not known for striking up conversations with each other on commuter trains. Today, however, I witnessed two real-live conversations between strangers. As a result of the derailment on the Northern Line the Bakerloo Line was packed. At the bottom of the escalator at Piccadilly Circus two women had a row about who was pushing who as they tried to get to the top before each other. It wasn’t a deep and meaningful exchange but it was a conversation (of sorts) between two strangers – which was certainly different. The second instance also took place on the escalators but this time Waterloo. The advertisements on the walls were for O2’s lower-cost calls from home service. They are a series of postcodes. A family riding up didn’t understand the message and another tube-rider chipped in with his opinion on the ads. He too failed to understand the message. I guess there’s something in that for O2’s ad agency but for me it was an eye-opener that people are, perhaps, not so self-involved on the London Underground.
2005: links for 2005-10-21
2002: Wasted Weekends
It’s twenty years since Culture Club’s Karma Chameleon was the UK’s number one selling single (full list). I really remember the video set in Mississippi (but I don’t imagine it was actually filmed there). I suspect it would be very dated now … all together now, “Every day is like survival, You’re my lover, not my rival …”
2005: Italy Is Smoke Free
2002: Selling
Apparently, if you’re in the United States, this week is Marriage Protection Week 2003 thanks to George Bush. It really is just plan silly – a knee jerk reaction to fear and prejudice. The hypocrisy of the line, “And we must continue our work to create a compassionate, welcoming society, where all people are treated with dignity and respect” is not lost on me. The overtones about marriage and good parenting are the scary aspects to me. Please support Marriage Equality Week instead (thanks to Eric for the pointer).
2003: Returning from Holidays
2002: Starmaker, Dream Breaker
I have been away on holiday for a week and am moving into catch-up mode.
As a child I frantically wrote letters the week before going on holiday so that I would have a nice pile of unopened mail upon my return. Yesterday, there was, of course, a mass of mail on the doorstep but most of it was corporate mass-mailings or junk of some description. My email inboxes were the same but where are the communications I actually want?
Back in the office, most of the mail is not junk and has to be dealt with but, as ever, procrastination gets the better of me. I’ve read it all and acted on the urgent. The rest is delayed for the “catching-up” excuse can last another 24 hours. Shameful, wasteful and it will be – ultimately – frustrating for me but that is the spirit of putting-off.
2003: Marriage Protection Week 2003
2002: Starmaker, Dream Breaker
As the British tend to do, we will look back on this past summer with joy. We’ll talk about it like we did that of 1976 – a long, hot, lazy, crazy summer. I was more likely to be playing in a paddling pool than worrying about shortages of the plastic pools back then but I do remember the heat and picking the fruit from my father’s fruit bushes while sitting in the back garden. Sadly, the topless lads playing football on the green behind my house has given way to to the Sunday morning rugby matches. This is a sign of the on-coming winter as the fields turn from their burnt golden grass to a dark-brown mud bath. Still, autumn comes first and it’s my favourite of seasons. I think it’s time I got the camera out to start recording some of it.
2004: Shrewsbury Town
2002: Nearly There
2002: Ultimate Boy Band CD (1)
Today is PY and my twelfth anniversary and tonight we are off for dinner at Lightship X at St Katherine’s Dock. I’m really looking forward to it.
Twelve years sounds like a very long time but it certainly doesn’t feel like it – it’s been a wonderful period of my life and I am very much hoping for another twelve years.
People talk about finding their soulmate and I very lucky to have found mine many years ago.
Thanks for everything PY. I love you.
2004: Today In London
2004: Thirteen
2002: Snapshot of the Blogsphere