Category: General

From left to right: David Blaine, Leonardo Di Caprio, Tobey McGuire. These men aren’t wearing pants. Especially Tobey, who really isn’t wearing pants. One gets the feeling that drugs may have contributed to this quite startling scenario.

Damn and blast. I just wrote a mammoth, ahem… serious blog on the debris and fallout from the US Presidential elections as we near Saturday’s Inauguration, when my browser crashed and the whole lot went the way of Al Gore. So I’ll just settle for this piece about Dubya’s addiction to the African hallucinogen Ibogaine.

Essential.org presents the ten worst corporations of 2000.

• Aventis: Guilty of selling food not fit for human consumption.
• BAT: Guilty of smuggling tobacco.
• BP/Amaco: Guilty of polluting the Alaskan environment.
• Doubleclick: Guilty of intrusive business practice.
• Ford/Firestone: Guilty of knowingly selling goods that lead to the deaths of 35 people.
• Glaxo: Guilty of contributing to the AIDS epidemic in Africa by pricing helpful drugs out of the reach of those who need them most.
• Lockheed Martin: Guilty of using human guinea pigs to test rocket fuel containing pollutants.
• Phillips Petroleum: Guilty of unsafe working practices, after the most recent in a series of fires at its Houston plant left 71 people dead.
• Smithfields Foods: Guilty of wrecking both farm economy and farming country.
• Titan International: Guilty of union busting and illegal employment practices.

Ever get the feeling you’d be safer on another planet?

Back in London. And Antwerp in a single word?

A generation conflict is growing. The “original” bloggers don’t appreciate the new ones. Lately I’ve been reading loads of these kinds of rants. Maybe he’s right, too. But who cares?

And the surfing goes on. Took a peek at our friend DH’s Rewired Blog, from where we stole this fantastic link.

Reporting live from Antwerp, Belgium. Or am I?

New from the man behind the brilliant TV Go Home: The first episode of Office Romance, an animation featuring Bob and Hoskins, two rodent-like creatures of uncertain origin. Available now at www.e4.com. (Works much better with IE).

The history of popular music is littered with great double acts or partnerships – Jagger/Richards, Lennon/McCartney, Sinatra/Hazlewood, Tufnell/St.Hubbins – the list goes on. Now a new force is on the horizon, threatening to outshine and outlive anything previously seen or heard. Yep, it’s Eminem VS Bob The Builder.

Now this is just silly.

Tonight I’m flying off to Antwerp to spend the weekend with Dave Roozendaal. It’ll be the first time I’ve met a fellow blogger in the flesh (I’ve met Dave before, but at the time he wasn’t blogging), so I expect we’ll spend the weekend boring each other stupid. Reports will follow. The most concerning aspect of the trip is that I’m flying via an airline I’ve never heard of, and landing at an Airport Dave thought had closed down. Bon Voyage.