Saturday, July 31, 2010

Rule By Failed Rock Star

Al finally makes it into the MerseybeatsBOM's old friend Rockin' Al Johnson has finally made the big-time. He's got his own rock show on the BBC. Even better, you're paying for it.OK, it's called Alan Johnson: Failed Rock Star, but at least he's up there in the limelight, grooving alongside such all-time greats as the Merseybeats (pic). And as he cheerfully admits, if only he'd made it first time around back in the swingin' 60s, he need never have...

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Beauty Pageants

When I was a little girl, my mum would sign me up for piano, art, dance and many others like any Singaporean parent would. Every parent wants the best for their children; I suppose she was trying to nurture some kind of talent in me. I couldn’t be cultivated to be a musician. My music teacher kept knocking my head with his knuckles and called me Stupid. He also has cigarette breath and coughed so much, my mum fears he has TB. So I stopped learning,...

The Natives Are Not Revolting

Tax is still the key to localismTyler recently attended another Westminster seminar on localism. You know, that's everyone's great idea for extracting more value from public services by running them locally rather than from Whitehall. Like most such seminars, it was attended by a mix of civil servants, quangocrats, local government people, think tankers, private contractors, consultants, and various hangers-on like Tyler. In other...

Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Hopping In Reverse

All Rights Reserved. Copyright © 2010 Elwin Goh. http://www.elwingoh.com  Can anyone be any more obvious?? While we were on shoot, a green saloon car drove past and then REVERSED back to check us out. Male driver, nonetheless. More pictures coming up...

When Can We Stop Digging?

We are leading the worldAs you will know, the man now in charge of Britain's energy supplies is one of our most notorious eco-hippies. But since we can't improve on Christopher Booker's brilliant Huhne demolition we needn't go on about that.What we'd really like to know is when can we stop digging the huge black eco hole our grandstanding politicos have dumped us into?We all surely understand the score by now. Our political class have presented...

Monday, July 26, 2010

I got the tickets from Omy.sg for the preview of Aftershock. Saw a lot of Mediacorp celebrities and they’re just as cheapskate as I am, going for free movies. Or maybe it’s an educational screening. They get to observe and learn how to cry convincingly, mucus and all. There’re a few genres that Asian movie making is better than Hollywood. 1) Kung Fu (for obvious reasons)2) Horror (asian ghost are just A LOT scarier than the ang moh ones)3) Disaster...

How We All Ended Up On Welfare

Something must be done, and it was... the trouble is it's since been overdoneOnce upon a time, long long ago, welfare was paid to the poor. And only to the poor.But these days, welfare is paid to pretty well everybody. Even Jonathan Ross and those plutocrats on the Wharf get welfare. It doesn't matter how rich you are, there'll usually be some way of getting your snout into the welfare trough. From Child Benefit, to free bus passes, to the winter...

Sunday, July 25, 2010

Laugh Monday Blues Away

So the story goes :Shannon the Secretary has lost her cat and has asked David the Graphic Designer to help with a ‘lost cat’ poster. This is their email correspondence…From: Shannon WalkleyDate: Monday 21 June 2010 9.15amTo: David ThorneSubject: PosterHiI opened the screen door yesterday and my cat got out and has been missing since then so I was wondering if you are not to busy you could make a poster for me. It has to be A4 and I will photocopy...