tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post1556144047746042091..comments2023-09-15T13:24:29.897+01:00Comments on BlackLOG: It was the best of weeks it was the worst of weeksBlackLOGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comBlogger26125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-3844123346437071712011-12-12T18:08:01.349+00:002011-12-12T18:08:01.349+00:00A Beer for the Shower said...
You just had to pos...<b>A Beer for the Shower</b> said... <br /><i>You just had to post the pictures didn't you? Go on ahead and rub it in. KT is brilliant and baddass and all that. I've still never seen her live, but really am glad you got to enjoy the show. Looks like you had good seats too.You lucky bugger!</i><br /><b>Guilty as charged, on all counts..... if she wasn’t married and I wasn’t married we still wouldn’t be together but it’s nice for her to have a dream.....</b><br /><br /><i>By the way, the fake smoke/fake cancer line killed me. </i><br /><b>I can only hope it was a fake killing, unlike the job Mrs B and Carruthers did on Mr Fox A.K.A.”No head” to his friends and family </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-57633763111082177682011-12-12T18:06:55.248+00:002011-12-12T18:06:55.248+00:00theperpetualspiral said...
Lately I've been g...<b>theperpetualspiral</b> said... <br /><i>Lately I've been guilty of not commenting due to looking at your posts via my blog reader.</i><br /><b>To be honest I’m still surprised and delighted that people have the energy to read my drivel yet alone comment on it...Does blog reader help take away the pain of shifting through long winded badly written blogs? </b><br /><br /><i>However, just wanted to say that I've found Union Chapel a great venue for live music.</i><br /><b>Who have you seen there? As well as KT, I’ve been lucky enough to catch Athlete and Starsailor supported by Bombay Bicycle Club....</b><br /><br /><i>I think I might also be responsible for many click throughs to your friends watch site. Alas the watch I seek continues to alude me!</i> <br /><b>Sorry about the cruelty of putting up the links – I’m not sure he gets many sales but he seems to get more hits through the BlackLOG than the Blacklog gets itself....sounds like I’ve found out why...Hopefully one day the watch of your dreams will come into reach....</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-44030660917585519812011-12-12T17:44:08.585+00:002011-12-12T17:44:08.585+00:00You just had to post the pictures didn't you? ...You just had to post the pictures didn't you? Go on ahead and rub it in. KT is brilliant and baddass and all that. I've still never seen her live, but really am glad you got to enjoy the show. Looks like you had good seats too.You lucky bugger!<br /><br />By the way, the fake smoke/fake cancer line killed me.A Beer for the Showerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17029139745335325356noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-47017590183542795252011-12-12T11:09:05.148+00:002011-12-12T11:09:05.148+00:00Lately I've been guilty of not commenting due ...Lately I've been guilty of not commenting due to looking at your posts via my blog reader.<br /><br />However, just wanted to say that I've found Union Chapel a great venue for live music. <br /><br />I think I might also be responsible for many click throughs to your friends watch site. Alas the watch I seek continues to alude me!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-14062922607076452332011-12-11T22:53:06.203+00:002011-12-11T22:53:06.203+00:00Judie said...
Actually, I thought I was safe with...<b>Judie</b> said... <br /><i>Actually, I thought I was safe with A&E,as it used to be known as the Arts and Entertainment network. As far as I am concerned, the Entertainment portion has become Excrement portion, and it is really piling up!!</i> <br /><b>Sounds like it would be a good time to get a rose garden....</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-35476948355392239922011-12-11T21:59:45.482+00:002011-12-11T21:59:45.482+00:00Actually, I thought I was safe with A&E,as it ...Actually, I thought I was safe with A&E,as it used to be known as the Arts and Entertainment network. As far as I am concerned, the Entertainment portion has become Excrement portion, and it is really piling up!!Judiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-26858331915943434732011-12-11T20:12:05.855+00:002011-12-11T20:12:05.855+00:00Suniverse said...
I'm exhausted just reading ...<b>Suniverse</b> said... <br /><i>I'm exhausted just reading about your week. And the awards ceremony just added jet lag.</i><br /><b>Oh dear the soporific affect of reading the B</b>lack<b>LOG</b><br /><br /><i>PS It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. Thank you, The Simpsons. </i><br /><b>Ok, I get the hint, I’m going to have to employ better qualified monkeys to write the B</b>lack<b>LOG going forward..</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-17270472360049337182011-12-11T19:42:44.130+00:002011-12-11T19:42:44.130+00:00Al Penwasser said...
James Earl Jones is 80?? Goo...<b>Al Penwasser</b> said... <br /><i>James Earl Jones is 80?? Good God, that Jedi Age-Defying trick must be working wonders.</i><br /><b>I hear George Lucas is selling it in a cream form now.... Jedi “You don’t see any wrinkles, here” cream.</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-39675987026638391382011-12-11T19:36:56.180+00:002011-12-11T19:36:56.180+00:00Judie said...
Well, today was one of my golfing d...<b>Judie</b> said... <br /><i>Well, today was one of my golfing days. It did not go well. We met in the lounge afterwards, where I consumed a generous glass of wine--my first "food" of the day. Had I known that by checking out your blog, I would be treated to your version of "War and Peace," I would have saved your post for tomorrow morning, since I am rather bleary-eyed at the moment.</i><br /><b>Don’t beat yourself up over it – To be brutally honest the B<b>lack</b>LOG probably doesn’t improve, even after a good nights sleep.... </b><br /><br /><i>As for my rant against reality t.v., one does not have to actually WATCH this trash--the previews are quite enough. Thanks for your comment, though.</i><br /><b>That might be true but to see those adverts you must be watching the type of program that attracts the type of people who watch that type of trash and so thus gets all the adverts....</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-20718681984368245732011-12-11T19:36:01.052+00:002011-12-11T19:36:01.052+00:00L-Kat said...
I am so incredibly flattered I don&...<b>L-Kat</b> said... <br /><i>I am so incredibly flattered I don't even know what to type! Thank you so much for including my Dickens/Chumbawama story in your post. Although, I am certain you did this just to clarify that it was, indeed, you, not I, who posted about "Tubthumping" first. Or maybe you just wanted the world to know that I credit you with being the first Earthling capable of time travel. Either way, I'm suspicious of your motives, BlackLog.....I'm onto you!!! But seriously, thank you.</i><br /><b>Damn, you saw through my cunning plan....I guess I’m going to have to travel back through time and have a blog over...</b> <br /><br /><i>"Mother :– “Oh yeah....don’t bite him again” (to child still not called Charlie)"<br />You know that by clearly stating this child is not Charlie, I had to call him that throughout that entire story? You did this on purpose, didn't you?</i><br /><b>All my secrets coming out in one comment....Not sure where this leaves me to go..... </b><br /><br /><i>"*** is it me or does the Red Fox seem to suffer from a bad stutter in latin.... "<br />My favorite Latin stutterer is Alces alces, the moose. Sorry to hear about your loss of Mr. Fox. </i><br /><b>Sounds like it was those damn Romans who had the stutter....I mean, what have the Romans ever done to us? .... All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us? </b><br /><br /><i>"The best sentence not even containing a “the” in the northern hemisphere"<br />Have you heard of the Buffalo sentence? I think this one should win....Wikipedia it.....and then, make sense of it and tell me what it means!</i><br /><b>I hadn’t heard of a Buffalo sentence and now that I have found out what it is, I really wish I hadn’t. I got a headache trying to work it out and all the Buffalos escaped while I was off looking for some aspirin....leaving far more Buffalo droppings than is healthy...</b><br /><br /><i>"I could have done a better job and I’m hopeless at accents"<br />I am going to agree with this statement, but only because I remember you saying, "The only thing that I was guilty of murdering was the American accent – as it hopped around the west coast, the east coast, Texas and other parts of the world not even vaguely connected to America. The only good thing to be said about my attempted accent was that it was consistently inconsistent"<br />However, consistently inconsistent is a good thing! </i><br /><b>Harsh but fair....perhaps I can work on my acting skills playing someone going from 70 to 96 – without getting a speeding ticket...</b> <br /><br /><i>Sounds like you have had quite the week! Thanks again for the shoutout for my blog - you're awesome (and I thought that before you told people to look at my blog!). And great pictures....I'm glad no one fought with The Beast.</i><br /><b>My pleasure, it’s a great blog and I don’t see why I should have all the fun.... </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-61982156742307587252011-12-10T19:56:43.726+00:002011-12-10T19:56:43.726+00:00I'm exhausted just reading about your week. A...I'm exhausted just reading about your week. And the awards ceremony just added jet lag.<br /><br />PS It was the best of times, it was the blurst of times. Thank you, The Simpsons.Suniversehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02535141439995862912noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-87946895779738701232011-12-10T01:11:03.327+00:002011-12-10T01:11:03.327+00:00James Earl Jones is 80?? Good God, that Jedi Age-...James Earl Jones is 80?? Good God, that Jedi Age-Defying trick must be working wonders.Al Penwasserhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14052950809151897315noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-89499073754439132222011-12-09T22:30:36.265+00:002011-12-09T22:30:36.265+00:00Well, today was one of my golfing days. It did no...Well, today was one of my golfing days. It did not go well. We met in the lounge afterwards, where I consumed a generous glass of wine--my first "food" of the day. Had I known that by checking out your blog, I would be treated to your version of "War and Peace," I would have saved your post for tomorrow morning, since I am rather bleary-eyed at the moment.<br /><br />As for my rant against reality t.v., one does not have to actually WATCH this trash--the previews are quite enough. Thanks for your comment, though.Judiehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02778815502961000469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-14211628593109891482011-12-09T22:06:27.078+00:002011-12-09T22:06:27.078+00:00I am so incredibly flattered I don't even know...I am so incredibly flattered I don't even know what to type! Thank you so much for including my Dickens/Chumbawama story in your post. Although, I am certain you did this just to clarify that it was, indeed, <i>you</i>, not I, who posted about "Tubthumping" first. Or maybe you just wanted the world to know that I credit you with being the first Earthling capable of time travel. Either way, I'm suspicious of your motives, BlackLog.....I'm onto you!!! But seriously, thank you. <br /><br /><i>"Mother :– “Oh yeah....don’t bite him again” (to child still not called Charlie)"</i><br />You know that by clearly stating this child is <i>not</i> Charlie, I <i>had</i> to call him that throughout that entire story? You did this on purpose, didn't you?<br /><br /><i>"*** is it me or does the Red Fox seem to suffer from a bad stutter in latin.... </i>"<br />My favorite Latin stutterer is <i>Alces alces</i>, the moose. Sorry to hear about your loss of Mr. Fox. <br /><br /><i>"The best sentence not even containing a “the” in the northern hemisphere"</i><br />Have you heard of the Buffalo sentence? I think this one should win....Wikipedia it.....and then, make sense of it and tell me what it means!<br /><br /><i>"I could have done a better job and I’m hopeless at accents"</i><br />I am going to agree with this statement, but only because I remember you saying, <i>"The only thing that I was guilty of murdering was the American accent – as it hopped around the west coast, the east coast, Texas and other parts of the world not even vaguely connected to America. The only good thing to be said about my attempted accent was that it was consistently inconsistent"</i><br />However, consistently inconsistent is a good thing! <br /><br />Sounds like you have had quite the week! Thanks again for the shoutout for my blog - you're awesome (and I thought that before you told people to look at my blog!). And great pictures....I'm glad no one fought with The Beast.L-Kathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13107278642765424614noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-49472448651077933412011-12-09T16:53:49.294+00:002011-12-09T16:53:49.294+00:00JUST ME said...
Mince pie flavored chips?
No not ...<b>JUST ME</b> said... <br /><i>Mince pie flavored chips?</i><br /><b>No not mince pie flavoured French fries that would be silly....<br />When I tell you the crisp (ok chip, I would not want to confuse you further) acts like a short crust pastry...does it not make a bit more sense<br /> </b><br /><br /><i>This confuses my American brain. </i><br /><b>Tempting as it is to say “American and brain?” I won’t, that would be just rude.... </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-14915512290548431132011-12-09T16:24:11.434+00:002011-12-09T16:24:11.434+00:00Mince pie flavored chips?
This confuses my Americ...Mince pie flavored chips?<br /><br />This confuses my American brain.JUST MEhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15663723046451628228noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-80185000115972724542011-12-09T14:42:33.061+00:002011-12-09T14:42:33.061+00:00Jas said
I'm happy to see KT Tunstall is st...<b>Jas said </b> <br /><br /><i>I'm happy to see KT Tunstall is still relevant in the UK. Her US streak didn't last nearly long enough.</i><br /><b>KT ran naked across America ...damn I would liked to have seen that.....although being off Scottish decent she would probably have translucent white skin with a hint of lotus blossom from her birth Mothers side.... </b><br /><br /><i> I want her to come back! You guys get all the good contemporary pop musicians. </i><br /><b>Great for us in that she played a fantastic small venue like the Union Chapel but not great I suspect for her bank balance ....she is a greatly undervalued talent but then again most of the music I latch onto seems to become greatly undervalued. I would appear to be the Jonah of the music world....Sorry KT sounds like i’ve destroyed another promising career. I guess the Beatles must count themselves lucky that I was not old enough to get into them before they split up.... </b><br /><br /><i>Also, I peed a little at the Chumbawumba story.</i><br /><b>It is becoming clear to me that I’m going to have to start publishing exerts from other peoples blogs – I get a much better response than for my Shoddy Blogging efforts – Jas anything you want be to republish for you? </b><br /><br /><i> I have fond memories of the Tubthumper album. Then, some years later, I went and read a wikipedia article on them. I had no idea that their badassery surpassed superhuman levels.</i><br /><b>I have a feeling that as ardent anarchists they were not very happy with the fame and fortune that came with Tubthumper.... Still they did target John Prescott one of the most vile politicians to ever slither across the earth ....so they can’t be all bad </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-60584658314433464052011-12-09T14:23:32.091+00:002011-12-09T14:23:32.091+00:00I'm happy to see KT Tunstall is still relevant...I'm happy to see KT Tunstall is still relevant in the UK. Her US streak didn't last nearly long enough. I want her to come back! You guys get all the good contemporary pop musicians. <br /><br />Also, I peed a little at the Chumbawumba story. I have fond memories of the Tubthumper album. Then, some years later, I went and read a wikipedia article on them. I had no idea that their badassery surpassed superhuman levels.Jashttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15715933879509916904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-15685052715753280842011-12-09T13:29:14.004+00:002011-12-09T13:29:14.004+00:00Scarlet Blue said...
Blimey, that was a busy week...<b> Scarlet Blue</b> said... <br /><i>Blimey, that was a busy week! Poor Mr Fox.</i><br /><b>I have a tendency to do this overbooking thing on a regular basis – Always sad to see the death of an animal, even a terminally stupid one....</b><br /><br /><i>Did you see Paul McCartney at Wembly Arena, in about 1988/9? I saw him then... he was on form the night I saw him... and I'm not fanatical about him.<br />Sx</i><br /><b>I can confirm it would have been around 88/89 and it was indeed Wembley Arena....Not sure if it was Sir Paul (although it would have just been plain Mr Paul in those days ) or me who was off form that night....It was a time when I was going to even more gig than I go to now </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-41334398640465114012011-12-09T13:28:46.025+00:002011-12-09T13:28:46.025+00:00Jennifer Hillier said...
Your Dickens/Chumbawamba...<b> Jennifer Hillier</b> said... <br /><i>Your Dickens/Chumbawamba story made me laugh so hard! Thanks, I needed that. :)</i> <br /><b>I guess most of the credit should go to L-kat....</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-11212209759910601012011-12-09T13:28:18.798+00:002011-12-09T13:28:18.798+00:00Brooke said...
I have had so many moments like yo...<b>Brooke</b> said... <br /><i>I have had so many moments like your dull awards dinner. Some things are just so boring, you have no choice but to make a game out of them. But, then, you get so wrapped up in the game, you inevitably make a fool out of yourself. My moments usually come in the form of an ill-timed, "HA! I TOLD YOU." Silence, stares... </i><br /><b>I’ve managed to keep clear of this type of event – not having a professional body to fleece me for subs or bore me to tears.... </b><br /><br /><i>I can also see you working a club door, "Ah, she has teeth and hair. I'd say she's probably of age." </i><br /><b>I can imagine this going wrong as I refuse entry to old people for not having their own teeth and hair </b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-37634034718517971322011-12-09T11:46:02.599+00:002011-12-09T11:46:02.599+00:00Blimey, that was a busy week! Poor Mr Fox.
Did you...Blimey, that was a busy week! Poor Mr Fox.<br />Did you see Paul McCartney at Wembly Arena, in about 1988/9? I saw him then... he was on form the night I saw him... and I'm not fanatical about him.<br />SxMs Scarlethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00449626572478125088noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-25955352826042435422011-12-09T07:12:40.249+00:002011-12-09T07:12:40.249+00:00Your Dickens/Chumbawamba story made me laugh so ha...Your Dickens/Chumbawamba story made me laugh so hard! Thanks, I needed that. :)Jennifer Hillierhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15783975547643539868noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-47328469785544213092011-12-08T19:36:09.540+00:002011-12-08T19:36:09.540+00:00I have had so many moments like your dull awards d...I have had so many moments like your dull awards dinner. Some things are just so boring, you have no choice but to make a game out of them. But, then, you get so wrapped up in the game, you inevitably make a fool out of yourself. My moments usually come in the form of an ill-timed, "HA! I TOLD YOU." Silence, stares... <br /><br />I can also see you working a club door, "Ah, she has teeth and hair. I'd say she's probably of age."Brookehttp://ramblingbrooke.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2876222863435533287.post-24864874336201949082011-12-08T18:13:41.825+00:002011-12-08T18:13:41.825+00:00Z said...
I saw Vanessa Redgrave in about 1968, w...<b>Z</b> said... <br /><i>I saw Vanessa Redgrave in about 1968, when she was wonderful, and again about 10 years ago, playing Prospero at the Globe, when she was dire. Underplayed to the extent that she had no stage presence at all, and undervoiced so that we could hardly hear her.</i><br /><b>I guess we are all entitled to our off days. We saw Paul McCartney in the 80’s and he was awful....It took some doing to talk Mrs B into seeing him last year but it proved very worthwhile ...</b>BlackLOGhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13214821496023051754noreply@blogger.com