The Quo
I went to watch Surrey play cricket yesterday. It was a lovely, sunny day and perfect for an afternoon of cricket watching and beer. While we were watching we noticed a woman sitting a couple of rows in front of us and her tattoos. One was a rose, another was the name Alec in a heart, but my favourite was her Status Quo tattoo on her left bicep. I like the idea that anyone could like the Quo enough to get their name permanently and prominently tattooed on to their arm.
Although I would prefer it if the reason for the tattoo was that she liked things to remain the same...
Monday, May 12, 2008
Thursday, May 08, 2008
Hot Town
The weather has been great for the last couple of days and so to make the most of it i went to a pub with a nice beer garden for a few drinks after work. I was meeting a couple of friends there and went straight from work to the pub. My friends stayed later in work than planned so I got to sit around and wait for an hour and a half for them to turn up. Which was fine as i am enjoying the book i am reading (Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson) very much at the moment. It was very busy in the beer garden and so, in order to keep my table while i went inside to get another drink, i left my book, my bag and some of a pint on the table. It was not enough though and i came back outside to find a woman sitting at the table. She was cool about it being my table, but her and her friend/special lady friend wanted to stay until my friends turned up. One of them was high on something and they were both pretty pissed and it all resulted in a fairly unusual conversation as we discussed their lesbian rape film idea they were hoping to film. We also touched on the subject of why men like the idea of lesbianism and one of them tried to suggest men like lesbians because they like the idea that two women are going to be closer emotionally because they are more similar than a man and a woman. I told her i was fairly sure it wasn't that...
That killed the time until my friends arrived, at which point they left the table. After a couple of beers we then went to meet my friend's slightly crazy but entertaining Uncle for a quick drink in another pub and finally headed home for sushi.
Sunshine, a good amount of strangeness, a few beers and some nice food. It was a good evening.
The weather has been great for the last couple of days and so to make the most of it i went to a pub with a nice beer garden for a few drinks after work. I was meeting a couple of friends there and went straight from work to the pub. My friends stayed later in work than planned so I got to sit around and wait for an hour and a half for them to turn up. Which was fine as i am enjoying the book i am reading (Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson) very much at the moment. It was very busy in the beer garden and so, in order to keep my table while i went inside to get another drink, i left my book, my bag and some of a pint on the table. It was not enough though and i came back outside to find a woman sitting at the table. She was cool about it being my table, but her and her friend/special lady friend wanted to stay until my friends turned up. One of them was high on something and they were both pretty pissed and it all resulted in a fairly unusual conversation as we discussed their lesbian rape film idea they were hoping to film. We also touched on the subject of why men like the idea of lesbianism and one of them tried to suggest men like lesbians because they like the idea that two women are going to be closer emotionally because they are more similar than a man and a woman. I told her i was fairly sure it wasn't that...
That killed the time until my friends arrived, at which point they left the table. After a couple of beers we then went to meet my friend's slightly crazy but entertaining Uncle for a quick drink in another pub and finally headed home for sushi.
Sunshine, a good amount of strangeness, a few beers and some nice food. It was a good evening.
Wednesday, May 07, 2008
Alan Sugar
I was watching the BBC news this morning before heading out to work. There were doing a piece on the rising knife crime among young people. They had Alan Sugar (entrepreneur and star of the tv hit The Apprentice.) on to give his opinion on the subject. Before he started he said how annoyed he got when people who didn't know anything about a subject harped on about it. He then proceeded to harp on about a subject he new nothing about. And then plug his show that is on the telly later tonight.
Interviewing someone, ideally a celebrity, who knows nothing about a subject seems a particularly popular way to do the news at the moment. Perhaps Alan was making that very point with his opening statement. And then again, perhaps not...
I was watching the BBC news this morning before heading out to work. There were doing a piece on the rising knife crime among young people. They had Alan Sugar (entrepreneur and star of the tv hit The Apprentice.) on to give his opinion on the subject. Before he started he said how annoyed he got when people who didn't know anything about a subject harped on about it. He then proceeded to harp on about a subject he new nothing about. And then plug his show that is on the telly later tonight.
Interviewing someone, ideally a celebrity, who knows nothing about a subject seems a particularly popular way to do the news at the moment. Perhaps Alan was making that very point with his opening statement. And then again, perhaps not...
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