2008

Edinburgh Diary 18th-20th August 2008

Our modem is on the naughty step. It isn’t flashing its send and receive buttons. Naughty...

Random Strategies

Edinburgh Festival Diary 17th August...

Today the show went much better. Back on track. Unfortunately the show after us screwed stuff up for...

nikography: from yugopop. lots of interesting experiments...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 16th August...

This must be my earliest night of the festival. It’s half one and I’m tucked up in bed...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 15th August...

Hello. What happened? Yeh, it was our day off so I slept in. Nice. Then I did stuff. Erm. Then...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 14th August...

Today was good. It’s our only official day off tomorrow, so the only really chance to stay up...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 7th - 13th...

Does this still count as a daily diary? Okay, I’m cheating a little, but I’ve missed so...

Ready? Steady? RACE! My Gramps and my two nieces. What a...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 6th August...

Women in Comedy and CatchphrasesAgain, you’re going to get this late due to the internet not...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 5th August...

I am writing this as midnight. However, it will not be put online tonight because I am sans...

P.S.

 I have been writing blogs, but no internet… on a mates comp at the mo.

Our first review - 3 stars

In The Mouth - FreeLaughing Horse Free Festival There’s a sense of potential about ‘In...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 4th August...

“The talk of the festival!” - Chris Coltrane, The After School Club. Yeh! Well. This is...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 3rd August...

Hi there. Yes. Well one particular reader will be pleased to hear* I am drunk again. Slurps wine....

Edinburgh Festival Diary 2nd August...

This day never happened.

Edinburgh Festival Diary 1st August...

johnbrissenden: thesophie: The first of the blogs that I would really rather not write, but I’ve...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 1st August...

The first of the blogs that I would really rather not write, but I’ve committed myself to this...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 31st July 2008

THE FIRST SHOW.Oh lord. Come on though, let’s be chronological. Oh fuck me! There’s a...

johnbrissenden: nevver: Catholic Girls I fucked the smiley...

cultshasha: thedaytheytriedtokillme: Incomplete Sentences: is it the latest quiz that all the kids...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 30th July 2008...

I forgot to point out this thing I found in the fringe programme. Doug Stanhope’s entry…...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 30th July 2008

If you’re one of those annoying bastards who think that once it’s past midnight...

Doug Stanhope is a fucking genius...

Stephen Fry » Well worth the wait

Edinburgh Festival Diary 29th July 2008

johnbrissenden: thesophie: Yes. The Fopp staff in Edinburgh are total winners. For those of you...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 29th July 2008

Yes. The Fopp staff in Edinburgh are total winners. For those of you who can’t make out...

johnbrissenden: Watching the charcoal turn white, with a cold Corona in one hand and a Marlboro...

Edinburgh Festival Diary 28th July 2008

*caution* This and most of the blogs following will be written under the influence of wine,...

Asperger Test

Competition: Every 1’s a Critic

What is imperialism? (continued)

John, I’ve been following your tumblr for aaaages now, and I was just wondering… You do...

Don't read this one it is about a...

I’ve never had a nosebleed. And I can’t help but feel like I’m missing...

@darkhorsedan Here be a picture of the lead singer of Sigur...

Phantom Friends

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Mr T's Secret

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darkhorsedan: thesophie: darkhorsedan: During a...

darkhorsedan: (via johnbrissenden) Does anyone else see...

Hurrying the soup

darkhorsedan: During a conversation with my housemate...

Charlie Brooker on 9/11 and conspiracy...

I'm back from Latitude festival

Sigur Ros were fucking amazing. I just had a bath. Now I’m going to sleep. Forever.

Bailiffs knock on Stephen Green’s door

“the most wasted of all days, is one without laughter.”
— e e cummings

“The archetypal example [of dread] is the example of the...”
— Wikipedia on Existentialism...

johnbrissenden: (posted with tweetshots.com) He’s here all...

I don't need a lecture from David Cameron

johnbrissenden: trying to work out which iphone apps are any good. loving 2.0 esp. Exchange...

Pulling a tooth could lead to...

darkhorsedan: Researchers in Brazil have found a unique doner for sperm - the human tooth: Could...

Pulling a tooth could lead to...

darkhorsedan: Researchers in Brazil have found a unique doner for sperm - the human tooth: Could...

“My mind isn’t going—so far as I can tell—but it’s changing....”
— Is Google Making Us...

philosophun 1 - darkhorsedan & thesophie...

Daniel says: you got something on your nose.
Daniel says: I won a private bet with myself that I could make you touch yourface.
Sophie says: what do you win?
Sophie says: and what do you lose?
Daniel says: I win my self respect. If I lost I would've had to piss the bed tonight.
Sophie says: but you did lose
Sophie says: if you made the bet with yourself you both won and lost
Sophie says: because both are you
Sophie says: one of you must have bet that i wouldn't touch my face
Daniel says: DAMN!
Daniel says: But the rules of the bet stipulate that if I prove myself right I get my self respect, but if I prove myself wrong that I must forfeit. So you can bet with yourself and win.
Sophie says: No, that doesn't work
Sophie says: how do you decide whether you have proved yourself right or wrong?
Daniel says: because i say "I'm going to make Sophie touch her face - if she does I get my self respect, if she doesn't I piss the bed".
Sophie says: oh yeh, but then... how do you win your own self respect? you can't suddenly respect yourself because i touch my face!
Daniel says: that is a different argument unrelated to the point about whether I can win/lose a bet with myself.
Sophie says: ok, true, but it does raise the question of your motives for doing it. why not just reward yourself with what you would win anyway? whether it be a chocolate, a treat, or self-respect, rather than wager your happiness on an insignificant thing?
Daniel says: because I feel like I need to earn it.
Daniel says: Or maybe I don't feel I deserve it without risking it somehow.
Sophie says: Weird
/Daniel just sent you a nudge./
Daniel says: yep that's me

errorgorilla: Here is a kitten in a hat. Look at the pretty...

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Quality fact

jonathan-deamer: McDonalds is “technically the world’s largest toy distributor”, according to...

Dylexia

chroot: One thing I have always found ironic is that beeing dyslexic: I have trouble spelling...

Teenager finds bat asleep in bra

darkhorsedan: This is taken from the BBC news website: Teenager finds bat asleep in bra A teenager...

errorgorilla: Literary Tattoos via www.contrariwise.org I’m...

johnbrissenden: chroot: pica: Jesus! Look at the...

Please sign this “Stephen Green of Christian Voice is trying to wriggle out of paying the...

“I am tout seul this evening. What to watch? Either: -...”
— (via johnbrissenden) I told...

johnbrissenden: If your answer is yes, you’re a fucking...

justonemorething: Simon Pegg with his new film, and new...

Worst Movie List

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ow ow ow ow

thewordunheard: So I’m getting my wisdom teeth out soon. All four. Fun. I’m taking off the entire...

Film | How to write a movie

“No one talks about my supertheory of supereverything.”
— Eugene Hütz, my lover. (via...

via www.b3tards.com

Filling out a YouGov survey.....

Have you ever had a prescription medication (either short or long term) on a repeat basis, that you...

My Morning Conversation

Me: What up Dude?
Coffee Guy: Dude. What up?
Me: Just a large black.
Coffee Guy: Italian Roast cool?
Me: yeah, sounds good
Me: (now staring at wall, with a grin, while thinking of someone)
Coffee Guy: She's that cool huh?
Me: (startled) wha?
Coffee Guy: Just an observation man. You just got that "look"
Me: Really?!? What "look"?
Coffee Guy: buck fifty
Me: Thanks
Coffee Guy: Dude, just try not to get hit by a car out there.
Me: (walking out & trying to pull a door that needs to be pushed)
:
Awwwwwwww. <3
:
God I'm so happy for other people's happy love shit now that I have happy love shit. I'm such a traitor to the cause.
thesophie: sorry 'dude', i just vommed in your coffee.
Coffee Guy: i bet she's cheating on you
thesophie: yeh of course! i bummed her last night.

Pat Condell feedback page - This is what's...

“We blame governments for everything then we go compromising...”
— My friend Craig on sacrifice...

I miss you darkhorse. Please blog so I can at least be in your web presence.

Fuck off

johnbrissenden: no I won’t do your gay little survey. We provide the content without which David and...

I’m doing a show at the Edinburgh fringe this...

MEEBOX - Adam Buxton BBC Three Pilot on...

Comedian George Carlin, a counter-culture...

current facebook status

Sophie reckons Donna is the little red-haired riding hood to Rose’s Bad Wolf. And it’s...

“It’s a motherfucker Getting through a Sunday Talking to the...”
— How pertinent right now. Yet...

THINGS THE GRANDCHILDREN SHOULD KNOW

This is written by the man who is - essentially - the Eels. I bought it yesterday and wouldn’t...

Sigur Ros fans...

If, like me, you can’t wait for your album to arrive, you can stream the album off their...

thewordunheard: This is a Wordle (pretty word cloud) made...

Reblog-Reload

cultshasha: Essentially, I’ve spent the day lying about what I can do and how great I am at things...

(via johnbrissenden) This would make a killer t-shirt.

@cultshasha

the only thing you suck… is lollipops. and bitparts.

Overload

errorgorilla: Penguin have kindly sent me this to read and review. It can join an ever-growing list...

i will do anything for cash

just reblog with what you would like…

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darkhorsedan: cultshasha: darkhorsedan: thesophie: cultshasha: thesophie: /bad day Someone...

“Comedy is the last refuge of the nonconformist mind”
— Gilbert Seldes

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!

cultshasha: thesophie: /bad day Someone needs a good old fashioned COMFORT PAT… For ‘comfort...

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAARRRGGGHHHHHH!

/bad day

johnbrissenden: TUMBLR MEETUP! Yesterday I enjoyed a...

Seeing as it's Father's Day....

YOU’RE NOT MY REAL DAD!

cultshasha: nevver: ウォーリーを探せ I love this, I love the fact...

darkhorsedan - you should check out wrongcards.com

“Be as you wish to seem.”
— Socrates

“Love is a serious mental disease.”
— Plato. Fucking yeh.

“I shall assume that your silence gives consent.”
— Plato (the rapist?)

Me enjoying episode 1 of Matthew Crosby’s Readable...

blah blah blah

darkhorsedan: Geoff’s telling me to write in my tumblr but I wasn’t in the mood. He also started...

cultshasha: I used to love making mix tapes, as a kid I’d...

Bye Bournemouth

:-o What? Oh shit man. I want to come back! Watching people die is rubbish. cultshasha: “I...

R. Kelly acquitted of all child porn counts

Sigur Ros in July for those in the UK!

“Little do men perceive what solitude is, and how far it...”
— Francis Bacon chronicles of...

Summer Ball

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“Is Terry Christian presenting still?!”
— Now, that wasn’t big or...

“There are three stages of climate change: complete denial,...”
— Philosopher John Gray,...

eBayDay

johnbrissenden: thesophie: eBay just informed me it has been 5 years since I joined it. So? Fuck...

eBayDay

eBay just informed me it has been 5 years since I joined it. So? Fuck off. You’re not my real...

“Human beings perform all manner of crazy facial distortions...”
— Charlie Brooker on animal sex...

errorgorilla: Sophie is right. Charlotte Gainsbourg, Paris...

Charlie Brooker on 'To Catch a Predator' (AKA...

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