OTT - Did everyone who saw it go bananas?

Long, long ago there was a TV programme which was meant to be an adult version of Tiswas - a rather peculiar concept as most of the people who watched Tiswas were adults. This programme did not run for a particularly long period of time and I don't think that there was a much cause for it to continue, however, it was ground breaking in terms of some of the content at the time.

What surprises me after having an extensive period of what I class as recovered memory is that the infamous balloon dance appeared one week to be carried out by several men who later formed the New Labour Cabinet. I assume that this was just one of many incidents that Tarbuck and a few other dodgy comedians set up in order to then accuse me of having sad deluded perversions and it may not have taken place quite as I recall it - did George W Bush ever do the balloon dance with them?

Tony Robinson, AKA Baldrick, appeared naked on 'Who Dares Wins', the channel 4 broadcast and this was really quite funny. I don't know why the New Labour cabinet don't just come clean and admit that they all appeared nude on TV and that they don't regret it. What may be rather unusual is that there was a broadcast after the one featuring the New Labour cabinet and there was a request for videoed highlights of this OTT and an offer to pay very extensively. I presume that the Police turned up and doped everyone who had seen it at some point in the next few months, after they'd contacted the phoneline set up for this purpose. Do you know anyone who watched OTT who didn't go bonkers....? Interesting idea, huh?

It would make life easier if there were clearer links between New Labour and the then successful conservative party. Does anyone believe there are not? Could this event actually have been set up by Thatcher herself? It would be quite interesting to explore whether any of this actually happened, I'm sure it is all lost in the 'ether' but may well have taken place?

Through the round window - was there a strong subtext to children's tv to get us primed for the internet?

While I was only half joking on the 6th February about the use of children’s tv in the form of ‘Finger Bobs’ to get us used to the right hand mouse movements I just thought of one other example. The attempts to get computer use engrained in our culture to a point where we all feel comfortable for hours at a time using a mouse and a keyboard may be something that media organisations may legitimately do, however, as this may have involved shaping the behaviour of children years before the products they were being primed for were likely to come onto the market.

This may also lead to mood changes with certain products as there could be strong associations between feeling good as a child and then feeling good when doing the same behaviour pattern when operating the internet and potentially be a factor which may contribute to web addiction in later life.

The issue that struck me as being relevant to the BBC increasing web-affinity was the use of the ‘through the round window’ scenario on Play School being a means of offering options to consider going through and preparation for web links perhaps. This would have otherwise been a very irresponsible thing to do, to encourage children to go around looking through windows?

I would assume that if the BBC had an agenda of increasing affinity with internet and PC products they would inform us of this – perhaps they will one day… I wonder what technology kids are being primed for through the web?

Worlds comes tumbling down. ...

So what did exactly happen at Waterstones on Saturday...? Was there all that fuss just cos a sign fell of the front of the store? It did make me wonder what was going on in all this and I don't really think that I could do a great deal to help all the people stranded in the building. I just wish....There was a pretty good sky and the shots of New St look pretty good if you see....'other random pictures' top right of the screen.

Much as I have been critical of the Daily Mail and other pseudo-journalistic rags which have not really been willing to admit that they like pornography, for instance by publishing images of women in lingerie rather than admit that porn sells newspapers, I do find that images of women do have an impact. I don’t know who this woman/girl was who was also looking up at the scene which appeared so fascinating to so many people at the bottom end of New St. – but it did capture a certain amount of the tension – what a lie… I took a shot because she’s pretty. I wonder if her application of mascara will improve as she ages.

Fairport Convention - English?

So there I was on a Friday night watching Fairport Convention when I thought it must be the support band. Rock and roll has changed since I was a youth, you used to turn up and just when you thought that it was time to go the support band would go on. Finally, after a very long wait the main act would go on perhaps to just keep you waiting on the assumption that making people wait would somehow get them in the mood. I think Miles Davis said that it was better to slightly under-do something and leave the audience wanting just a little more

Outraged by the fact that Fairport actually went on stage on time (as if what goes on in the rest of the world doesn’t actually relate to them) I have since recovered. This is due to the fact that the shots of them are alright, see the link to 'myspace things....' top right or 'flickr'.

More poems....

These were all 'inspired' by those from Canon Poets who raised the issue of the shape of a poem as examined as a profile resembling something connected to the subject matter. Each of these poems should resemble the shape of something they are linked to.... I think these are too close to what was presented in the Canon Poets group for me to claim any authorship. I don't think there will be much disagreement though I can't recall who wrote the originals. Please inform me, Canon poets if you read this: who wrote what. Thanks, Steve.

Lump in my throat.
Nearly chucked,

Held it back down,

Managed to keep cool,

Passed her en route to loo,

To the answer, white porcelain

The Niagra with tubes and a chain,

With feeling I couldn’t contain,

With no respect for the drain,

I held it down inside,

I kept it back,

No chunder,

I wonder,

Again?

Overhang
Hanging on for dear life bound in lycra,
Struggling to get up to the edge of the face with limits that only climbers will know,
I hang back as I try to get near to the brink of the underside hanging,
I push with my feet and stretch out for life to get grips,
To have hand holds and smear and scrape,
My feet to the bare face of rocks below,
To understand how my body can,
Function in all this time without,
Knowing a genetic limit like this,
The cliff-face is how we should live,
Deep on the edge of the world,
On the heart of the fringe.
Tied to nothing.

How rude of you.
I don’t know how you can do this to me?
To cause such reaction with nothing but motion,
To move like a cheetah without much commotion,
To look so sexy right up from the soles of your feet,
To then make feel saddened and make my heart beat.
To wander around with such nonchalant swerves,
Which do little more than display your curves,
To make me think I of what I could divulge ,
To all the feeling I have linked the bulge,
In a way that’s just not safe as houses,
The swelling in the front of my trousers.