Russell Sprout

 
A man called Russell has changed his surname by deed poll to Sprout.
Russell Sprout, 26, of Southampton, cannot stand Brussels sprouts and hasn’t eaten one for years.
“Sprout was always my nickname and my friends dared me to change my surname to Sprout,” he told the Daily Echo.
“In the end, I thought why not? I dropped [...]

A Hush Descends Over the Newsroom

Dumbarton Sign Michael Moore!

He could lose a little weight…

Ah that’s better!

Edit: Getting better all the time! (might have taken the shirt and tie off mind you!)

Flying Straight

From the “we know we shouldn’t laugh” dept. 
 

The Yankee Dollar Rules the World

On my previous blog I posted an item on the USA presidential election. It was a link to a survey on which issues concerned you and ergo which candidate you should vote for. Dennis Kucinich was top with repondents and in an email I circulated he seemed the most popular candidate. [...]

Scarlett Johannson and Tom Waits

Thanks to my friend The Helpless Dancer for alerting me to the fact that Hollywood actress Scarlett Johansson is to release an album of Tom Waits covers entitled “Anywhere I Lay my Head”. There is no information yet on which songs are to be included on the album but having heard [...]

The Blue Nile v. Edward Hopper

I featured this on my previous blog last year. No excuse needed to link to it again because it is simply wonderful. Thanks Paul for doing it.

The Glasgow Underground

Edit: It turns out that the owner of these videos doesn’t permit embedding. I have therefore posted the youtube links instead. 
These two amazing pieces of film are of the old Glasgow Underground a one circuit two-directional underground train system. The first brief one has a musical accompaniment from Francie and Josie (alias Rikki Fulton and Jack [...]

How are they Related?

 
What do these people have in common? See if this helps, they are Amy Winehouse (drug addled chanteuse), Gerald Ronson (convicted fraudster), Mick Jones (guitarist with Foreigner),Sir Malcolm Rifkind (plummy voiced Scots Tory), Bucks Fizz (early 80’s anodyne Eurovision group) and Sir Leon Brittan (oily old Thatcherite).
I will publish the answer tomorrow. (nae googling!)

Van Morrison

I probably have more Van Morrison records in my collection than those by any other artist. I think as a songwriter, singer and multi -instrumentalist he has few equals. I have seen him live on maybe about ten ocassions and these have ranged from the stunningly brilliant to the frankly mediocre. Unfortunately the latter outnumber the [...]