The Jazz & Blues Festival has an annual free Jazz on a Summer’s Day party in Princes Street Gardens today and for the first time ever we decided to go down. Four hours of a variety of jazz musicians performing, from people charging £15 a ticket to see their shows to the combined Edinburgh […]
We wandered out today to the Mardi Gras in the Grassmarket. This is the part of the Jazz Festival where they transform the Grassmarket into New Orleans for the afternoon; fortunately it didn’t rain otherwise we’d have been awash with poor taste jokes. It wasn’t that great to be fair, they really need […]
Shocking revelation isn’t it? That’s the only way I could possibly explain today’s lead story: “Overtaking ban plan for bypass solo motorists. LONE motorists face being banned from the fast lane of the city bypass under council plans to introduce car-sharing lanes.” Where exactly can I find this “fast lane”? […]
Hmmm, I think I’m safe now. Last week I was up in the loft after my Death Slide giving a good friend a tour (yes, of my loft). It was a very warm day, in fact we all go a little too red as we didn’t have any suncream on (stupid people!). […]
The Royal Bank of Scotland, yes the same one recently hammered by BBC One’s Panorama when it ran the story of *two* debt-related suicides of discrete RBS customers, has scrapped yet more of the free donations it gives away. This time the unlucky victim is the once-mighty, now weak enough to be blown over […]
I can exclusively reveal that, several months after switching to its more compact format, i.e. tabloid, The Scotsman newspaper has completed the transition to tabloid. On the front cover of today’s paper it has run the story about George Muppet Bush and his ridiculous conversation with a live mike on and duly censored the […]
This weekend I got slight sunburn by being out in the sun (and also being raised 100 feet plus in the air!), yet two of my colleagues were out of the UK on holiday. I also know of two other lots of people who have gone abroad to get lovely summer weather. Sorry […]
I’ve oft thought that alongside genius comes insanity. That could be the only explanation why a young member of Mensa (lapsed admittedly) would want to jump off a crane raised *over* 100 feet in the air. Ah, I’ve though of a better one! To raise £250 for the British Heart Foundation. […]
Is anyone else getting a strange sense of deja vu? Yes, the Film Festival booking line opening today and melted as did their website (although you couldn’t get the bestest deals online). I went down to Lothian Road to queue up for a good 45 minutes but only moved a quarter of the […]
My company has started pushing me harder with this time-sheet nonsense; they want more detailed information to charge my time back. The whole thing is a stupid idea but what’s worse is they made me implement it and roll it out to everyone else so I get the blame Everyone has […]
I was going to get a t-shirt printed for this weekend’s Death Slide with “I do all my own stunts” printed on it, a la Adam Savage. Instead I think I will get one with “I bust all my own myths” instead…
So Phill, what meat based myth do we have this week? Well […]
Do you know what the abbreviated version of the pronoun Adrian is (as in Adrian Edmonson)? It’s Ade. Are you aware of the heavy metal and US approach of adding a ‘z’ to a word to make it plural and cool? Think Bluez or even Gunz. Finally how do you pronounce […]
You can see the adverts everywhere now, such as this one near Haymarket. “Don’t get caught out by your bank” and “We pay interest from the day you put the cheque in your account”. Hmm. Only a maximum of £1000 in cheques per month. Double hmmm. 0.1% interest - […]
I’ve decided to add a few “plays” to my schedule for this year’s Festival, in addition to the usual line up of good comedy and shocking bad films blatantly lied about by the Film Festival website. Don’t forget Stewart Lee’s Talk Radio is highly rated and is quite comical, hence the reason it is […]
The Unit, an excellent show about the uber-secret Special Forces unit Delta Force, has been picked up by Bravo for screening in the UK this Autumn. The show is based on the book Inside Delta Force written by the special unit’s former Command Sergeant Major Eric L. Haney and is created by Pulitser Prize […]
“1. Murray Thrashes Roddick” and “2. England Crash Out”.
Maybe the sub-headline could be “England’s Dream Is Stamped Out”. You heard it here first.
I am actually backing Germany now that England are out (this is not a joke), I have a very good German friend and so that’s my closed allegiance. I did […]
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