I’m inordinately amused by Liverpool’s new slogan – Liverpool: The UK’s third favourite city
The Tao of Street Fighter
This is a quick one about the first of a series of poems done by Ross Sutherland, one of The Mercy People, on Street Fighter characters
Half Map Half Biscuit
I’m greatly amused by this Google Maps mash-up detailing Half Man Half Biscuit’s many and varied references to places of interest in their songs.
Liverpool Beer Festival
I urge you to go to a beer festival, and support your local brewer. You’ll find it hard to drink the mass-produced piss that turns up in most pubs ever again.
Don't Passiton
There’s no particular reason why this should be particularly annoying, it’s not the end of the world and it may be a one-off – but I don’t really want my experience of the web to become cluttered with desperate PRs trying to shill their rubbish to me and pretending to be someone else.
Have you been down the new Tesco?
I’ve just been for a walk around the new Tesco on Hanover Street, as people seem to do when a shop opens nearby. “Have you been to the new Tesco?” they ask, as if there’s something other than a busy and joyless stress experience waiting for you when you inevitably go.
Scouse humour…
I’m reminded of scouse humour. Cheeky, funny and driven by a vague sense of righteousness. To a point. Beyond that it’s increasingly hard to separate from cruelty and bullying.
Twitter: A warning
There are probably a hundred articles about how Twitter is a fertile breeding ground for spammers, scammers, paedophiles, swingers, socialists and Jonathan Ross. I haven’t experienced any of these but received quite a shock when Noel Edmonds started following me.
Bradley leaked email: I nearly walked
In time-honoured fashion – for Liverpool City Council anyway – the Bradley email was subsequently leaked, though it is not clear whether by friend or by foe. After the last two years Bradley probably doesn’t know which is which anyway.
ITV misses Merseyside derby goal
My God, this is funny.