N20
Posted: Fri 21 October, 2005 Filed under: Thoughts 4 Comments »I can’t believe that that execrable pile of shite known as Neighbours has now been on our screens for twenty friggin’ years this week.
Mind you, I also can’t believe the number of people who have nominated (and by definition, remembered) the 20 favourite obscure Neighbours characters. Although I do think it indicates that I’m not the only person who needs to get out more – in fact, some of these people need to get out far more than I do!
Of course, I also can’t believe I read that article, considering I’ve watched less than ten episodes of Neighbours in my life…
Sorkin’s Back
Posted: Fri 21 October, 2005 Filed under: General 1 Comment »According to the Media Guardian, creator of the West Wing Aaron Sorkin is coming back – unfortunately, not to the West Wing.
NBC has committed to 13 episodes of Studio 7, a behind-the-scenes satire set in a Saturday Night Live-style late-night comedy show, which is shaping up to be one of the hottest new properties coming out of the US next year.
“This project is a noisy, compelling combination of bold drama and laugh-out-loud comedy,” the NBC entertainment president, Kevin Reilly, said.
However, Studio 7 may prove a little close to bone for NBC bosses. The pilot opens with an executive producer of the fictitious late night comedy show launching into a tirade about the current state of TV, with people eating worms on screen – which is regarded as a clear reference to NBC reality show Fear Factor.
© Guardian Newspapers 2005
Well hallelujah – it’ll be good to see what Sorkin comes up with.
Destroy, then Rebuild
Posted: Fri 21 October, 2005 Filed under: Domestic 2 Comments »As part of our plan for sorting out the final bits of the house, the kitchen currently resembles a bombsite.
Last weekend I took off all the tiles on the walls, and Herself has painted the ceiling. We’ve also taken off the doors to al the units, and Herself painted the unit carcases themselves. And then work stopped for a couple of days, as Life kicked in with a vengeance.
Tonight there’s another (hopefully final) coat going on the units, and then we can look at putting on the new doors. Over the weekend, the new tiles will be going on, and then there’s repainting the walls, Then next week we’ve got the fitting of a new kitchen worktop and sink.
It’s all going pretty well, to be honest. But in the interim period, the kitchen looks like a bomb’s gone off in it.
Just to add to everything else, we’ve also had the turf in the garden taken out, so we can level it off and reseed it this weekend. Of course, as soon as we’d got rid of the turf, the heavens opened, and it’s been heavy rain since. So the entire back half of the garden currently resembles a bad day in the Somme.
Some would say that if we’d had more sense, we’d have done all this one stage at a time, but well, where’s the fun in that?