Armed with the new satellite navigation thing that Wife gave me for Christmas (in the knowledge that I could get lost in a cardboard box), we all set off to see Best Friend and Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms for lunch today. We managed to make a brief (three hours) and not financially ruinous [...]
Archive for December, 2008
Two Become Three
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Best Friend, Chiswick, Family, Talented Art Director with Monkey Arms on December 30, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Bashing Baz Luhrman.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Baz Luhrman, La Boheme, Shakespeare, Sky Arts on December 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s not timely to say this, given the critical licking that his film “Australia” has just been given, but I adore Baz Luhrman. His film of “Romeo and Juliet” is the best version of that play ever filmed (it certainly shows Zeffirelli’s version up as no more than an old queen’s ad for Verona and [...]
For Christmas – 20 Living People Whose Work I Worship
Posted in Uncategorized on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Fiona Shaw Jonathan Bate Gore Vidal Deborah Warner Stephen Fry Nicholas Hytner Simon Schama Baz Luhrman David Hare Jeremy Bullmore Frank Kermode Daniel Day-Lewis Jonathan Coe Alan Bennett Lucian Freud Judi Dench John Galliano Brett Easton Ellis Mark Kermode Guillermo del Toro
For Christmas – 40 Harmless People Whom I Hate
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Hate, People I Hate on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Simon Callow Elton John Mariella Frostrop Jim Carrey Paul Daniels Trinny and Susannah Li’l’ Wayne Alan Titchmarsh Jade Goody Germaine Greer Lois Walsh Tracey Emin Andrew Davies Meg Ryan Irvine Walsh David Starkey Kid Rock Tom Paulin Ruby Wax David Furnish Ben Elton Esther Rantzen Mariah Carey Wayne Hemingway Andie MacDowell Steven Berkoff Sam Taylor-Wood [...]
The New Threat On Your Doorstep
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Shopping, Westfield, Wife on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Westfield Shopping Centre has opened perilously close to our home: a fifteen minute walk away, to be exact. Ordinarily, a new shopping centre might be something to shrugged at (or possibly feared, with the likely adornment of scrofulous, hoodie-wearing, scowling adolescents hanging around) – but Westfield is different. And it scares me. Westfield is no [...]
“That’s Not My Wife”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Advertising Agency, Drunk, Old Friend at Work, Wife on December 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
A plan to meet up with Old Friend At Work didn’t work out – but thinking about her, and how long we have known each other, reminded me of one of the stranger evenings that we have had. It was a dark, Winter night – and OFAW and I were rounding off an evening out [...]
Farewells – One Fond, One Not So Fond
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Account Manager About Whom I Have Changed My Mind, Best Friend, Christmas, Family, New York, Parents, Sister, Travesty of All Things Gay, Wife on December 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am loathe to use the term “Annus Horribilis” – primarily because I always try to avoid using terms popularised by in-bred, German midget bigots, but also because it has become such a cliche – but, I will be so glad to see the end of this year. With the exception of Sister’s and Best [...]
The Workplace Christmas Skulker
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Christmas, Christmas Presents, Fearless Leader, Old Friend at Work on December 19, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I am the Workplace Christmas Skulker. In simple terms, this means that when “required” to give a Christmas present to someone at work, I fudge the issue completely. There are a couple of approaches to the presentation of gifts in the workplace, all of which I have encountered recently, none of which I can “pull [...]
