Ooo, These Grapes Are Sour!

Dirk Benedict has much to say about the new BSG. A movie site, Big Hollywood, has given him a platform to say it.

You wish they hadn't.

One can quickly surmise what a problem the original Starbuck created for the re-imaginators. Starbuck was all charm and humor and flirting without an angry bone in his womanizing body. Yes, he was definitely “female driven,” but not in the politically correct ways of Re-imagined Television. What to do, wondered the Re-imaginators? Keep him as he was, with a twinkle in his eye, a stogie in his mouth and a girl in every galaxy? This could not be. He would stick out like, well, like a jock strap in a drawer of thongs. Starbuck refused to be re-imagined. It became the Great Dilemma. How to have your Starbuck and delete him too?

It's that whole bad tooth thing. You really want him to shut up and, well, you could just close the browser but just as you can't stop prodding at that tooth...

Changes

So, I've moved over to a new Blogger template, which sort of makes the page look just like any other blog, oh well...

I just wanted to add gadgets I guess and now I probably have less functionality than I did before.

I'll add all the old links back soon. Honest.

Flight Info

Over at Making Light Abi Sutherland posted a list of useful sites offering various information about flights and airports. I've just checked out Sky Scanner and I must say that I was very impressed with it. It's got a simple, easy to use, interface and the results seem to be very thorough (to get to Leeds Bradford from Linz, the flight goes to Dublin first, obvious, I suppose, but not something I'd thought of). I'll definitely give it a try next time I go back to England.

Posts Will Be Coming Soon

Two weeks off, even at Chrimble, sure does seem to build up a back-log. I haven't forgotten you, dear readers, I've just been busy catching up here at work before I can send out yet another filler Short Short item. I must try and do a couple of longer things in the next month or two.

So here's a couple of things any way:

• Flat Earth News. I'm probably way behind the times with this, but there's some good articles there about the news and the lies the media tell us.


• Little Master Cricket game. Fun, if a little frantic for cricket...


• Actors remember Harold Pinter. A kindly terror.


• World's Funniest Street Signs. I mention this only because I believe one could be from Conisbrough.

First UK Appearence

"Guten Abend. Ich freue mich, hier in Rotherham zu sein"

Escaped Into The Wild

Yeah, so, three tracks from the BluesBerries demo CD "Back With The Blues" are available to listen to on our Myspace Page. I'm proud of them and I know my band are so I'd appreciate you all taking a few minutes to listen to them and, if you feel like it, to leave some feedback here or on the Myspace page.

I wrote "Invisible Friends", if you can think of any non-icky way to expand it to take in all the senses then I'd be interested in hearing your ideas -- I don't know why but the way I sing "lepers" on that track makes me smile, I hope it has the same effect on you.

The BluesBerries: Back With The Blues Cover

I believe you can see what I did there.

There are new tracks to be uploaded right now and as soon as I pick the best three or four they'll be on the myspace page

Son of the Return of Short Shorts VIII

You're never alone with a Short Short.

• How To Read an American Newspaper


• The 10 Worst Predictions for 2008. Does not include any bet made by Eamon, oddly enough.


• Those Austrians Part Whatever... Though part of me thinks Bill Hicks would approve if it was a final artistic statement.


• Robert McCrum gives his list of last years Top Ten books along with an indication of his relationship to the author of each book.


• An etymologists view of England.


• Translating The Wire into German.


• Inconveniencing yourself to a book deal. Giving up dining out for a month must have been a nightmare.

Son of the Return of Short Shorts VII

The difference between Marketing, PR, Advertising and Branding

• One for Peter: Shia LaBeouf... Why?


• CoverMode Go there while they still have Nouvelle Vague's cover of Too Drunk To Fuck up (then subscribe to their rss feed)


• I'm not entirely sure it's something to be proud of, but the XBox 360 games in tis list of Offensive Video Games seem to be either games I've got or games I'm interested in getting in the future.


• Offworld's take on how all the games above are really gay deep down. Or just on the surface, whatever.

Band News

I've not spoken about The BluesBerries for a while, mostly because we've had a bit of hiatus from gigging, we really needed to sharpen our sound and work on new songs.

Anyway, we spent the other Sunday in Markus' basement recording some tracks. And, well, it seems that we got about 7 good ones. Around four of these will be appearing on the BluesBerries Myspace page in the next month or so so keep your eyes peeled and your ears ready.