Ken on Weblog Awards
Ken says boycott them and he has some damn compelling reasons as well. I find the whole endeavor farcical. The list of excellent blogs not listed is overwhelming to me. The voting system is rubbish and the behaviour of some involved is abhorent.
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Master P has taken a long hard look at Charles “Not to be interviewed after lunch” Kennedy and his policies. Besides becoming the Muslim party in the UK, Charlie and Co have no where to go but down. Several bloggers, including Oliver Kamm, have done their best to expose Lib Dem duplicity and appeasement. Long may it continue.
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House of Commons rock band
Via: London Spy
News of a fresh attempt to convince us that MPs are in tune with the youth of today. The SNP’s Pete Wishart – the only MP to have appeared on Top of the Pops – is starting a parliamentary rock band. Wishart, who used to be the keyboard player for Scottish rock acts Big Country and Runrig, says the project is in its “early stages”.
“We’ve had some tentative rehearsals,” he says. “If we come up to scratch, we hope to do a few shows for charity.”
The (as yet unnamed) band includes Labour MPs Ian Cawsey and Kevin Brennan and Tory frontbencher Greg Knight. Regrettably, Westminster’s best-known guitarist – the frontman of the 1970s student band Ugly Rumours – has yet to express an interest.
“Tony Blair would be welcome to come along and show us what he can do,” adds Wishart.
1 commentTurn, Turn, Turner
He accepted his award, for instance, dressed as “Claire,” his alter ego, in a purple satin baby-doll dress with appliqud rabbits and a green bow and wearing bobby socks with his red patent leather pumps. He stood between his wife, a psychotherapist who was also wearing a dress designed by him, and his 11-year-old daughter, Florence. The latter was present in spite of public warnings that certain of the exhibits were unsuitable viewing for children under 16 . . . “I’m not trying to do art to shock,” says Perry.
You play it for laughter, then? The unshockable James Bowman dissects Britain’s Turner Prize for art in National Review Online.
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