If you’re one of the few people I haven’t subjected to the story of how I got to be in the new series of Doctor Who, this entry is for you.
Years ago, for my sins, I recapped the original British series of Queer as Folk, one of the best television shows ever to air, for […]
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Browsing in Foyles yesterday, I was happy to spot books by several people whose blogs I enjoy: Robert Scoble and Shel Israel (whose book, Naked Conversations, was in the “Bestsellers” shelf in the Business room. Cool!), Kathy Sierra, and three books by my friend (and Engagement Alliance advisory board member) Tomi Ahonen. (I also spotted […]
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This list is mostly common sense, but worth keeping in mind (via Lifehacker, which is so prolific that it made me feel stressed and thus unhappy, and was consequently removed from my RSS reader. This one came via Dave Winer.).
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On Friday night, after checking into the Meliá White House Hotel, we went for a wander around the general Fitzrovia area. The first place we popped into was Villandry in Great Portland Street, an exquisite little food shop with a bar and restaurant (with wifi). We made only two small purchases: a pot of Claire’s […]
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We really needed a weekend with no domestic distractions or other forms of work, so on Thursday I booked us into the Meliá White House Hotel near Regents Park. (Yes, we stayed at a hotel a couple of miles from where we live. Believe me, we will do it again.) It’s a four-star, so pretty […]
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Dude, you weren’t “released” - you were rescued.
UPDATE: I just opened up our copy of the Sunday Times and saw that that newspaper has mis-reported Kember’s statement. I heard and saw him say these words on TV, and he actually said - as The Observer and many other media outlets have accurately reported:
I do […]
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Our weekend away was actually just a weekend hiding out in a really, really nice hotel in London. (More on that later, as it was a rare example of fine customer service in this city.) So we were able to pop along to the demo in support of freedom of expression in Trafalgar Square on […]
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1) Lunch with Greg Gutfeld. I don’t think I stopped laughing. Great food, too (Roka, Japanese place in Charlotte Street).
2) Tim Burton walks in behind me, begging to be noticed.
3) Paul McCartney showed me love.
4) Rick Parfitt (only worth noting because of the RP story Greg then told me).
5) Free Pepsi Max Coffee Cino sample […]
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I had lunch today with Greg Gutfeld (former editor of Men’s Health, Stuff, Maxim, and current recipient of multiple death threats from left-wing HuffPo readers), which I was pretty excited about - he’s a funny guy and we have a mutual friend in Andrew Breitbart. But I totally forgot about Greg being there the moment […]
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(Just a quick one…)
Michael Jennings makes a comment worth quoting here:
I think that if this kind of aid genuinely was the solution to poverty in the world, then we in the west would have a moral obligation to provide it, because that there is as much poverty in the world as there is is a […]
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I have tons I need to write about - the BASDA event, the wonderful consequences (so far) of the NYT write-up, the totally repugnant manager of All Bar One in Cambridge Circus who turned into a total wimp when I asked if I could have his name for a piece I was writing about poor […]
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It’s funny how so many journos never tell you that they’re writing about you, but it always makes a pleasant surprise when you do find out. Today, Jack & Hill, the make-up blog that was a pure product of my insomnia, Hillary’s expertise, and our shared enjoyment of free products, is featured in the New […]
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In today’s Independent, penned by Sean Gabb.
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Dear Oliver Kamm,
I repeat: No one cares about most blogs.
(By the way, lots of people - many of them bloggers - love to trot out the line that Oliver is pushing here. I normally don’t bother to argue, because most of them are idiots. Oliver is not, and I agree with him on quite a […]
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