Resistance is Phutile

Hats, books, paints, and balls.

-BBC Breakfast - Royal Ascot 'ladies day' - excuse me while I puke all over your preposterous hats and dresses.

-Also on BBC Breakfast - Will Self's new book, The Book of Dave, sounds great. I wanted to hate it because I've been reading loads of his stuff recently but I've got to admit the plot sounded interesting. Basically a London cabbie is cuckolded and goes on a bit of a rampage. Oddly enough he fashions some sort of makeshift version of the Ten Commandments on some sheets of metal and buries them in his wife's garden (presumably our disbelief is suspended, it does sound a bit dodgy there...)

Anyway, in London's flooded future only the tops of the hilliest areas are still above water, and on them live a group of people who discover Dave's templates, and subscribe to them devotedly. These people view Dave as a god, and their greeting for each other is "where to guv?"

-I really can't get my head round those who want to cover up Banksy's artwork as if it is an ugly blemish on the bland walls of our cities. His murals are stunning, highly original, and should be revered, not slated.
(Although the statue he vandalised - in the 'outdoors' section of his site - does nothing to help his cause)

-One more football bit, people keep asking when Sven will play Walcott. He'll only feel safe bringing him on if England have a comfortable lead and look to have bagged the match. He might have talked a big game, saying he's ready to take a gamble, but will he really want to bring Walcott on against the goliaths we have in front of us?

If we beat Ecuador, the quarters will bring either Holland or Portugal, the semis either Brazil or Spain, and the final either Germany or Argentina. Something like that anyway.

Can't help thinking Defoe should have been there.

posted by Phu @ 11:16 am