Autoplay, shitm'self.

That is one of the strangest and most touching things I've seen in a long while.

No.

Your boys had a no#1 album in the UK last week. I laughed. No#8 this week, though.

Martin Amis, these fellows … Tough crowd, Dr.

Maybe it's a freedom of anonymity thing. It kind of is for me. I don't tell my real world friends my screen name here - not that I say anything I'm ashamed of. Lupin Adams gave out his real name a few weeks ago on the TI.

Sounds great as well.

It's about 3400 words, though it looks like they want to edit it. The publication is called Writing Tomorrow, and it looks like they print anthologies, or have them as ebooks. December's issue, they said it'll be in.

90% would be fired from their jobs immediately, considering some of the things that are said here.

Kharak - the most common name put forward as the 'real' Shakespeare is the Earl of Oxford, John de Vere. My point is that few Earls have contributed much to literature, and that Shakespeare is broadly from the strata of society that produced Dickens, Joyce, and Pinter.

I think Beatles covers can still be a force for good in the world, and he does one of the better ones with his slowed down Nowhere Man.

"Now I work down at the carwash,
Where all it ever does is rain …"

Snap!

If Saul dies in the next few episodes, then this series will be backlit by sadness however amusing it is. Which could work.

A friend of mine went out with a girl who did the make-up on that programme (for something like £800 a week - in the 90s!), and apparently most of her time was spent on pacifying the 12 yr olds hovering around the locations. Not sure how make-up stilled them, but it did.

Shakespeare attended school, he would've been well educated by the standards of the day, if not to University level. Plus, how many members of the upper classes produce great literature? There's Byron, and …

Ayuh.

It's one of the toughest, most rundown spots in Newcastle. Fuck knows why they thought a kids show could be set there.

I always ask my football loving friends if there are any other decisions they made as fucking 5 year olds that they feel they have to stick to for the rest of their fucking lives. Especially the ones who don't support their local team.

I caved in an hour ago and put the central heating on. Fuck.