And while we’re on the topic of current events reminding us of songs, here’s Shona Laing’s (Glad I’m) Not A Kennedy: I’m not sure how someone who married into the family could fall victim to “the curse” though.

I’m listening to the news where they are talking about people withdrawing millions of Euros–This came to mind– On the back burner is Michael Portillo’s Great Euro Crisis from This World. The people who’ve seen it say it’s pretty interesting watching Eurosceptic Portillo’s opinion of the crisis. Then again, I still have two series (2 [...]

or why I hate US elections and am happy that I have somewhat insulated myself from them:

One of the things I have been mentioning on this blog is the urban fox since I was startled by seeing one in the shopping district created from the Old Duke of York’s Barracks off the King’s Road at 5PM in the evening.   Yes, it was crowded. And, Yes, very few people paid attention to [...]

I found it interesting that former Australian Rupert Murdoch was being grilled on ANZAC day by the Leveson Committee.  Even more interesting was his comment along the lines that “Citizens should take an interest in their media”  First off, the comment comes from someone who has done a wonderful job of subverting the media in [...]

Australian ISP iiNet  won a legal victory against the Hollywood studios who wanted to hold the ISP liable for its client’s downloads.  Australia’s highest federal court today found in a unanimous decision that Perth-based iiNet could not be held responsible for the trade of thousands of pirate movies and music files by its customers. I [...]

Of course, from WETA-TV’s (Washington, DC) prmotional reel, this sounds as if it will be a Washington Metro item, not national in the US (as f now).  The programming sounds as if it is similar to what BBC America offers, without the commercials.  It is also a digital Television channel, which means it is a [...]

My wife was asking me about when the latest series of the Killing (aka Forbrydelsen, meaning The Crime) was going to appear on BBC Four.  Alas, that is yet to come, but the Radio Times has announced that more Nordic Noir will be hitting the airwaves soon.  The only one of these new series with [...]

Maybe there is light at the end of the tunnel here for a job switch. The Radio Times published this sickener about the post. Former D-Gs talking about what a living nightmare the post is. Everybody seems to hate you: OK, so you can’t sleep, you can’t go on holiday and everyone outside the BBC [...]

Once again, Bollywood film star, Shah Rukh Khan (AKA SRK) has been detained at US immigration on the way to make a speech at Yale University. The first time Khan was detained was in 2009. Khan alleges that this was due to US prejudice toward muslims, and I couldn’t agree with him more. The US [...]

Somehow. my stats have jumped up from the UK–and a certain IP address block at that. I’m dead serious–I’ll apply for the job of D-G if I stand a chance.

OK, I do have to admit that I do what I can after all my comments about wanting to support the BBC. Since I get the most traffic from Michael Portillo’s Great British Railway Journeys, I want to show that I am trying to give back here. I hope Mrs. Thatcher would approve! BTW, since [...]

No sooner do I post my pieces on the BBC then this job opens up: British Broadcasting Corporation  Director-General. Now, I would be happy to give them my CV if I knew I stood a ghost of a chance. I wonder how many of my Old School Chums are higher ups at the Beeb? Break [...]

OK, I really loved Jean Tinguely’s Le rêve de Sofia Loren when the Museum of Modern Art in Brussels had it out. Of course, I liked it because you pushed a button and it started up, causing the museum guards to go nuts. That is my theory on why it vanished to storage. But, good [...]

At this point, I’m going to try to tie together the thoughts I’ve mentioned in the previous three posts to try and come up with a coherent whole. 1) The BBC is a public broadcasting service The major problem with this one is who exactly is the public and who exactly funds it. The BBC [...]