What's going down in the 'hood?
The latest entries into this pit of despair
- For your Christmas viewing pleasure
- 11 December
Christmas is coming, and it's time to brush off those festive film features that we watch to get ourselves into a less curmudgeonly frame of mind. Now, we all know that there are only three truly great Christmas films: Scrooge; It's a Wonderful Life; and Klaus. No, Die Hard is not a Christmas film, it's a film set during the Christmas holiday, and that is a hill that I'm prepared to die on. No pun intended.
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culture vulture; entertainment; lost for words- Buckingham Palace à gogo
- 10 December
The relocation of the Royal Mews from Buckingham Palace to Windsor, seen as cementing the British Royal Family's exit from Sadiq Khan's Caliphate of Londonistan, gives rise to the obvious question: what of the palace's future?
(more…)- random thoughts & brain farts
- Ice cream wars
- 9 December
Ben Cohen, co-founder of Ben & Jerry's, purveyors of cheekily-named, diabetes-inducing shit, has warned that moves at its parent company, the newly-founded Magnum Ice Cream Company, to rein in its social activism will destroy the brand.
(more…)- business; politics
- Netflix enshitifies Batman
- 8 December
Netflix's proposed takeover of Warner Bros has stirred a lot of excitement. According to US President Donald
(more…)The Donald
Trump itcould be a problem
, as the combined company would hold a dominant position in the streaming market. The Writer's Guild of America opines that it wouldeliminate jobs, push down wages, worsen conditions for all entertainment workers, raise prices for consumers and reduce the volume and diversity of content for all viewers
.- culture vulture
- The lands of the peoples
- 4 December
The country suffix
(more…)-stan
is derived from Persian, meaningplace or land (of the people)
.- language; random thoughts & brain farts
The latest updates to past woes
- Eurovision: is the writing on the wall?
- 5 December
Harking back to an earlier time, when Russia was expelled in response to the invasion of Ukraine, the BBC has this to report:
(more…)- culture vulture; politics
- Norwegians would
- 28 November
This article reappeared on the BBC News home page today. And, indeed, it's timestamped only eight hours old. So, I checked the text against a version held by the BBC's accountability coach, captured on the day that I read it, to see what's changed.
(more…)- culture vulture; food & diet; gotta respect the grift
- BBC website funding…?
- 24 November
While updating myself on the BBC's current woes over political bias and its future funding, I came across this article from a couple of weeks' ago, in which the PRPP puts its spin on justifying the extortion racket. But, in reality, it's not a new article, it's the one that I cited four months' ago; it's simply been
(more…)invisibly mended
and its headline touched-up. And the BBC's accountability coach backs me up.- Hasmyback Machine; world's most trusted BBC
- Big game hunters…
- 13 November
The story's been updated—invisibly, naturally—presumably by Guy Delauney, who's name was missing before. And if I couldn't understand before how the BBC needed an Eastern and Southern Europe correspondent, I'm totally at a loss as to how it can run to an additional Balkans correspondent. I guess he was brought in to verify his colleague's information sources. Who knows?
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- history; quoted for
WTF?
; sicko - Snow White: streaming sensation
- 18 September
Bloody hell, that was brief!
(more…)- entertainment; gotta respect the grift; wit & wisdom of the comments section
