Two things on BBC news caught my eye as I munched on my sarnies today: 1) Liverpool was named European Capital of Culture for 2008 today. Someone from the council told the BBC website that: “This is like Liverpool winning the Champions League, Everton winning the double and the Beatles reforming all on the same day – and Steve Spielberg coming to the city to make a Hollywood blockbuster about it.” Hmm, I think I’d…
Month: June 2003
I had a call from someone at Ticketmaster earlier this afternoon to make sure I was aware that the time has changed for the gig I am going to on Friday night. I was actually, as they’ve already sent me a letter about it, and an email. The gig is at the Royal Albert Hall, and I believe most of the tickets would have been sold through Ticketmaster. So that means that some poor guy…
And still the spam keeps coming. For some reason, I’ve been getting a lot of unsolicited emails offering to enlarge certain parts of my anatomy recently. As I said before, which website was it that I visited where I accidentally ticked the box indicating I needed, um, assistance in this area? One of the emails this morning carried the subject heading “Break Down Walls with your humongous kn*b” (What, you mean literally? Why? Why would…
All in all, a lovely weekend. Saturday was one of those rare gorgeous sunny days when everything is just perfect out – it was only slightly marred for me by getting caught up in the rugby crowd around Twickenham on my way over to Clapham for a barbie on the Common (oh and nearly breaking my back slugging the cooler around). However, we managed to overcome the difficulties (find ice, find beer, try to find…