Open Democracy (Free subscription) | 26/11/2009
Have just listened to Jim Naughtie’s deliberately downbeat, dour and depressive journey north to Kilmarnock for the Today programme, searching everywhere for doom and gloom and not surprisingly finding it. This was an awful stereotypical kind of item and one which makes you wonder if an intelligent debate is possible about the future of the UK and Scotland’s aspirations in it. Certainly...
@wedwardes - wine for spice etc. (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
President Obama toasted India at the first state dinner of his administration on Tuesday as reported by The Deccan Herald ......... The menu Potato and eggplant salad White House rocket with onion seed vinaigrette 2008 Sauvignon blanc, Modus Oprendi, Napa Valley, California Red lentil soup with fresh cheese 2008 Riesling, Brooks “Ara” Wilamette Valley, Oregon Roasted potato dumplings with...
Hello, My Name Is Alice (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
What an overdue post this is! 2 weeks ago, I was at the FLY FM 4th Flyniversary concert with my friends. I was blessed with a VVIP pass, thanks to my colleague Izza. Together with her and two others, we met at 1 Utama where the concert was held. It was raining but it didn’t stop the crowd from enjoying themselves. Heck, I enjoyed myself. We launched into a mini photo op and you’ll see lots...
SibLINGSHOT ON THE BLEACHERS (Free subscription) | 25/11/2009
ANC 1021. Lifted from their 1975 LP, " Elastique " - also released on the UK independent Anchor label - " Why Did You Do It ? " remains as taut and inviting a proposition as a 38" peach in a g-string. Brassy white funk delivered without irony or criminal remorse. The last gasp of live circuit desperadoes drowning in Johnny Walker watered down with flat Cola served in plastic...
NON-WORKINGMONKEY (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
I was sent this this morning by my friend Louis, who is reading a copy of John Peel 's autobiography (found in Oxfam). It made me extremely happy. I hope you enjoy it too. In answer to the question "how did you feel about the music of the early ‘70s?", he replied: “Well, when you look at that period, the only bands that got signed up were bands that contained at least one member...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 23/11/2009
As blows rained down on Johnny Walker's stomach during a brutal beating at the hands of the police, he realised that in saying almost nothing, he had still said too much. "They were beating me up and my shirt came open and I told them I had stomach ulcers, so all the punches went down there... I should have shut my big mouth," he says, his voice quavering.
Jailhouselawyer's Blog (Free subscription) | 22/11/2009
Johnny Walker: A terrible injustice Thirty five years ago, the IRA murdered 21 in the Birmingham pub bombings. Six Irishmen were jailed for crimes they did not commit, and spent 16 years in jail before their convictions were quashed. But how was life on the outside? Jonathan Owen talks to Johnny Walker As blows rained down on Johnny Walker's stomach during a brutal beating at the hands of the police,...
BLANKNEY JOURNAL (Free subscription) | 21/11/2009
On this day in 1974, bombs devastated two central Birmingham pubs, killing 19 people and injuring over 180. Police said they believe the Provisional IRA planted the devices in the Mulberry Bush and the nearby Tavern in the Town. The explosions coincided with the return to Ireland of the body of James McDade, the IRA man who was killed in Coventry last week when the bomb he was planting blew up prematurely....
lathophobic aphasia (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
I have recently found the blog of The TEFL Tradesman , and reading him has reminded me of the kind of Teaching English as a Foreign Language looniness that my present job protects me from. For instance, between January 8th and March 2nd 2007 in Vermont, you could have done this course for teachers, had you been present. (Otherwise, let’s face it, you couldn’t have.) Being Present: The Key...
Hindu (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Dilip Kumar, Vyjayanthimala, Raaj Kumar, B. Saroja Devi, Motilal, Pandari Bai, Minoo Mumtaz, Johnny Walker
scaryideas (Free subscription) | 13/11/2009
Johnny Walker Whisky : Mirror [Video] The Mill, BBH London and Infinity Productions have finished collaborating on the new Johnnie Walker TV spot 'Mirror', the latest in the whiskey brand's "Keep on Walking" campaign. Agency: Bartle Bogle Hegarty Agency Producer: Ben Davies Creative Team: Hamish xxxx, Justin Moore Production Company: Infinity Productions Ltd. Director: Tom Hooper Executive...
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The actor in the spot is from New York and his name is Joey Auzenne.
binendwines (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
Diageo is the world’s biggest drinks group with brands such as Johnny Walker, Baileys, Gordon’s, Guinness and countless others that are almost household names. Being formed from takeovers and mergers between spirits producers and breweries it never really had a presence in the wine market. That was until 2006 when it sent eyes rolling in sockets all over the drinks world with the announcement...
Haqeeqat.Org (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
Seymour Hersh might have come up with some absurd findings, like concluding that religious extremism has multiplied in Pakistan because no one offered him Johnny Walker Black during his recent visit. But apart from that, Pakistan's national security managers should sit up and take notice of one glaring fact: The US media and some circles in the Washington establishment are behind the worst global...
WOW Insider (Free subscription) | 01/11/2009
Reader comments -- ahh, yes, the juicy goodness following a meaty post. [1.Local] ducks past the swinging doors to see what readers have been chatting about in the back room over the past week . Why, oh why, are the wolves of Northshire Abbey getting sick ? Has swine flu gone to the dogs? Could it be something even more cataclysmic?! (cutaia) : It all makes sense now! The letters W, O and E are the...
Sandlander (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
Many of those of us involved in the field of audio-visual storytelling are fascinated bythe challenge of creating a sequence in a long, single take. This is the direct antithesis of the fast-paced editing which has characterised action movies and television series since the advent of MTV and Miami Vice. There was a half-hour episode of the American sitcom Mad About You recorded as a single take in...
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