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What tan? I'm torn between "The one we get in Nashville, silly" and "Meee-ow! ". Besides, sunburnt baaldy heeds are all the rage this summer.

Not a summer holiday per se, but we're off to the States late next week (argh!). Four nights in New York then the best part of a week in Nashville for a country music festival. Yee-haw! Will probably do a last-minute break in Lanzarote or similar later in the year to properly top up the tan.

Completely a propos of nothing, but as period pieces go, this is pretty excellent. http://archives.cbc.ca/sports/soccer/clips/13478/

Imagine a whole U2 tour being cancelled. Tens of thousands of zombies wandering the streets of every major city looking for something dull to watch.

Would love it in theory as I adore the city and it'd be a hell of a story, but yeah, quotes pls? EDIT: Oh, and they've just appointed Armin Veh anyway.

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The Olympic and Paralympic mascots. To steal a comment from the Grauniad website: "Is Matt Groening on our Olympics committee? First the 2012 logo looks like Lisa Simpson giving head to Bart, and now we have Kodos & Kang as our mascots?"

Getting DP'ed by Mike Neville and Doug Weatherall? While Bob Johnson waits patiently for his two-minute slot at the end of the half-hour.

Just got a porn spam from Wendy Gibson. Presumably not that one.

Yep, that. Often sell duplicate/unwanted CDs and DVDs on there (and buy them too, though Amazon zShops has usurped eBay somewhat, I'd say).

They should have an "Oceania GP" to go along with the Aussie one.

My £75 on Belgium to beat Slovakia in the first semi of this year's Eurovision looks like free pocket money. What's not to be happy about?

I'd rather a change in the way the world works. Call me an eternal optimist. Forgive me if I don't. There's the tiniest bit of circumstantial evidence.

So there'll be no buyers for the entire Chinese economy as soon as "The West incl. Japan and Anzac" goes tits-up, either directly or indirectly (since China's markets in Africa and beyond wouldn't survive a moment without our involvement). That would be interesting. And I'd wager we'd come out of it better than "they" would, if only we could make the case for accepting 50 years of destitution and rat-eating for a subsequent 500 years of superiority like in the Good Old Days.

Another one for the list if you're in Soho - in my very humble one, at least - is the Crown & Two Chairmen on Dean Street. Extensive range of draught beers if you're into your wanky German/Belgian shit etc., decent atmosphere downstairs and a quieter room upstairs.

Spectacularly specific, but the Old Bridge Inn in Ripponden, West Yorkshire, is lovely - the very epitome of an English country pub in a picturesque location. Cracking beer selection too.

Excellent. Saw a cyclist knock over a girl who was crossing the road on a green man yesterday - didn't even stop to apologise. Fuck 'em.

I reckon the Kermode/Mayo show last week (which Lawson was also on) got it pretty much spot on - Crowe's enough of a pro to know that he failed in nailing any kind of plausible and consistent accent, but vain enough to have nothing in his defence beyond getting pissy about it.

What a fucking prick you are.

I cannot begin to express the extent to which I agree with the above post.

Is Barrichello going to get a reprimand for hoying his steering wheel onto the track like a petulant bairn?

Can't beat a good Kristallweizen. Swine to get over here though.

http://bigbenclocketc.spreadshirt.co.uk/ Fucking hell.