Leeeeeeeeeeds

Every building going up in Leeds looks like this. Same colours on all of 'em.



In the last few days -

Things I read:

"Status anxiety" (such a simple expression that requires no explanation and a reality for some folks I know).

"Creative creatives creating creative creative"..... "That's a use of the English language too absurd to even contemplate"

Amen

"It is the Meltdown of our society" - A Scotsman headline about delinquent boozy youths. Funny, I was just thinking back to this headline when I saw Jacob in this picture (bottom centre in his hoody with his stick).....well that's just the start of it....... here's a clip for the Daily Mail readers out there - we're all doomed!! (as the Scottish dude in Dad's Army used to cry). The clip's like a 20th century French Clockwork Orange.


Things I heard:

"Property porn" (in reference to shows like Grand Designs)

"Spam valley" (the name comes from the rumour that the residents of Spam Valley had paid so much for their houses that although they appeared wealthy to the local population they were actually nearing poverty and were reduced to eating low-cost meat product Spam). - My cuz in Dalgety Bay told me it. I coined the phrase to him "Dalgety Housewives" (cos his street looks like Wisteria Lane and is full of housewives) - his missus may be penning the story soon!


Things I saw:

Gwynneth Paltrow - she's binned that flowery Carpenter look for the cocktail doll - eechiwawa! - promotin a film though likes. No more daft Apples and Moses for her - Charlotte and Sebastian now, no doubt.

Run Fatboy Run - David Schwimmer directed it. Not that funny but some nice colourful cinematography - like when fatboy is outside the Gherkin building and everyone walking past him is in grey, black, beige or white but he's in turquoise. Or when he's in fat Asian bloke's house and everything is brown/orange except him. His own house is nicely coloured/photographed too.

Things I thought:

I watch Peep Show and sometimes imagine the two dudes are just one schizophrenic dude when they talk to each other. Is that weird? {Try it}.

Michael Port-a-loo = Tory piss


Things I discovered:

99 flake cones originated in Portobello, Edinburgh. The name came from the Ice-cream shop at 99 High Street.

St. George was black - haha!! - That'll piss off some right wing English nationalists. Like the Da Vinci code for the NF.