Budgie

Enter Kylie, left, right and centre

The Guardian (Free subscription) | yesterday

Arts & entertainment: Visual overkill leaves fans in a trance. But then, at last, pop's Cleopatra sings... By Killian Fox

Denise Richards serving it up in black Budgie smugglers

Distortrait (Free subscription) | 03/07/2008

'Appy Birthday, _tonylee_!

budgie's squawks (Free subscription) | 30/06/2008

'Appy birthday, mate - hope it's a great day and a spectacular year!

Poetry News For June 29, 2008

Poetry Hut Blog (Free subscription) | 29/06/2008

Poetry News: — William Logan in the NYT on Frank O’Hara — — Actually creating reading of substance trapped in constraints — — To annotate his poems is to realise how much cultural and metaphysical freight they carry — — Much of her work drew on the southern working-class milieu from which she sprang, and she produced powerfully [...]

Is Kylie really so lucky, lucky, lucky?

Belfast Telegraph (Free subscription) | 27/06/2008

Kylie can barely put a foot wrong, it seems, but has the tabloid love-in anything to do with her music and is she actually that talented? 24/7 investigates the 'cult of Kylie', tracing her journey in the public imagination from squeaky clean teen star to sex symbol to tragic heroine battling cancer and heartache.

Your Blog Is a Budgie On a Skateboard

Between the Hammer and the Anvil (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008

See the budgie? Look at the budgie. Look at it - it's on a skateboard, isn't it? Isn't that brilliant? How did they get that budgie to sit on that skateboard? Boy, that's cheered me up, and entertained me just as effectively as any blog post I've ever read, including my own. Sorry for the left-field intro, but there's this idea abroad that blogs are going to be the saviour of modern politics. Well,...

On local newspaper photographers, again

Scaryduck: Not Scary. Not a Duck. (Free subscription) | 26/06/2008

On local newspaper photographers, again As a student of the genre, this is by far the best People Looking Sad For The Local Newspaper Photographer I have seen for a very long time. "Go on... look sad... No, sadder than that... Christ onna bike, somebody's stir-fried your budgie - BE MISERABLE" All it lacks is someone pointing wanly to a dead cat lying in the gutter and it would have been the Best Local...

The Ten Best Beach Bags

The Independent (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008

A cute canvas shopper with a detachable cosmetics case hidden inside. You can buy this wipe-clean bag in a zebra or budgie design in red, yellow, white or grey at Urban Outfitters.

Budgie tries its wing at skateboarding

Nothing To Do With Arbroath (Free subscription) | 25/06/2008

The pet is one of 13 taught to use tiny boards by budgie fan Trieste Visier, 35. It took her months – but she said at her home in Sydney, Australia: “Training these little guys was a great deal of fun.”

Family pet goes skatebirding

The Sun (Free subscription) | 24/06/2008

A TRAINED budgie proudly shows off his latest cheep trick – SKATEBOARDING

THIS new film's got a sting in the taiL..

News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 21/06/2008

NEVER work with children or animals, or so the old saying goes. But Edinburgh filmmakers Susan Wright and Catriona Craig threw out the rule book when they made their movie The

• THIS new film's got a sting in the taiL.. - Edinburgh Evening News

Why gold could hit $8,500 an ounce

Investor's Iraq Forum (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008

Why gold could hit $8,500 an ounce by Dominic Frisby From the late ‘80s until now, that sleazy operator inflation barely got a mention, though we were living through two decades of never-before-seen money supply growth. Who cared? He was serenading stocks and houses and we were getting richer. “That's nice,” we said, “but ssshh”. But now the old cad has dumped poor, dear housing and stocks for a new...

Garden centre gutted by fire

Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 16/06/2008

| Garden centre gutted by fireA GARDEN centre may have to close after it was gutted by a fire. The blaze was deliberately started at Bowlee Nurseries on Heywood Old Road, Middleton on Saturday between 4am and 4.30am. An accelerant was used and the blaze spread quickly causing major damage, which will cost thousands to repair. A pet budgie, which had lived at the nursery for 10 years, also died in the...

George Bush Does A Day's Work

TheSpoof.com - Spoof News (Free subscription) | 15/06/2008

American President George W Bush today did a day's work, the first in his short and uneventful life, as he usually just sits around watching sports on TV and drinking Jack Daniels with ice. Of course, he occasionally reads a speech on an autocue,...

Brian Budd, 56: Canadian soccer star

atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 13/06/2008

Brian Budd was fond of relating how he'd made an impression on Pele, when the legendary Brazilian soccer great was playing for the New York Cosmos in the 1970s.