Mucking Fuddled!

Sometimes life is all straight forward with hardly a kink and then at other times it's a right old mucking fuddling puddle of tangledness! I've just finished work and feel about as normal as a washing machine in the desert, my mind is pretty much mush ( some of you maybe thinking, nothings different!) I've been kinda bitchy to my mate David tonight, but it wasn't my fault, he needed it, and it's because he barged his way into Gabriells dressing room the night before last and I always blame him a little bit of the god awful state I was in after our drunken night on the town!

Everything seems to be confusing me at the moment, first there is a new film about the life and times of Bob Dylan that's been approved, but there are six people going to be playing the music man. Richard Gere, Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Ben Whislaw, and young black actor Marcus Carl Franklin in his movie debut all play the great man, the sixth person in the film to be Bob is.....Cate Blanchett! Yep, confusing!

Troubled actress Lindsay Lohan, yeah that young soak, has checked out of a rehab clinic in Utah where she went in August following charges of drunken driving and cocaine possession, because she says she doesn't have a problem! Yeah right!

Nearly 300 participants started twisting and turning a small multicoloured cube on Friday on the first day of the Rubik's Cube World Championships in Budapest, the birthplace of the cult puzzle. Hello, the Rubik Cube? Have we gone back in time? Didn't we have that in the 80's? Is it back? I've not seen one in peoples hands since, well since I was at school, surely we're not back in the 1980's again, surely I've not slipped back to those heady days when the only thing I had to worry about was beating Marcus 'Fingers' Totting in matching the six colours on the six sides! Well that and not getting caught behind the groundsman's shed having a crafty fag with Gary or a sly five knuckle shuffle in the art store room with Jon! Actually come to think about it, perhaps it would be nice to be back in those days again! But, I'm not going back to having blisters on my thumbs from twisting that poxy cube for anyone!

It's not quite "Jurassic Park", but Swiss archaeologists were in a state of high alarm yesterday after thieves stole traces of a dinosaur footprint from an excavation site! Yep, apparently they just waltzed in and whipped away the footprint said to be 152 million years old. But the experts say that if it comes up for sale they will know about it! Yeah no shit Sherlock! I mean how often do you see a sale for something that old?

A Texas woman has escaped being charged with 'negligent homicide' (only in America!) after she killed her husband with a sherry enema. Tammy Jean Warner was due to go on trial last week but she's been let off due to the lack of evidence! But why on earth would you shove sherry up the arse?

A thief has stolen a cardboard cut-out of a policeman which was put in a store to deter shoplifters! Yeah honestly it's true, Derbyshire Police said a man had been seen on CCTV walking with the picture under his arm from a shop in Grasmere. The cut-outs were first introduced in shops in the area in 2005 in the hope that, at a glance, thieves would think the image was a real officer. But if that was the case, then why did the publicise it, with photo's clearly showing it was a cardboard cut out?

Some of you know that I like my cycling, you'd think that having an accident where I broke my back, coccyx's and knee would have put me off, but no, I think it's great to get out on my two wheels and peddle around, especially in Brighton that has lots and lots of cycle lanes. However some, are perhaps a little ermm short, or as David would say, 'neither use nor ornament' Here's a couple of pics to indicate what I'm on about!

About as much use as a choclate tea pot me thinks! But at least we don't live in South Africa, for down there it seem's the line painter was a little drunk when he returnd to work in the afternoon!

That's ya lot for today!

Drunken explorations!

I'm not sure who I blame, whether it's our Rachael or perhaps our David, or maybe even me! I arranged to Meet up with David on Tuesday and then by the fickle finger of fate we happened to bump up into little Rachael, so then we popped off for a beverage. Well, one beverage turned into two, which in turn turned into three, and then four and then oh my god it's morning!

Yes, the three of us started out little escapade in red painting of the town in St James, a pub on St James Street, which as thats where we were seemed like a good starting point. Then after that we headed off to The Amsterdam, after sitting on the terrace for a couple it was on to Charles Street and then we twinkled round to VaVoom. Now I dont know how this happened, or why, but after that we went in to Revenge and I tried to pull a student young enough to be my son and then I danced like my dad! Oh how embaracing it was, we;; actually it would have been if the alcohole had not softened my memories of such events.

After clubbing in Revenge, we trapsed up to Legends, which is usually my start and ending venue on any night out. It was great fun being out with David and Rachael, letteing our collective hair down, slagging off the world and enjoying the simple act of being British and perhaps over indluging! Rachael is great fin to be with, so full of life, and energy and she'll talk to anyone that one! Yep, in VaVoom she talked to a cute curly haired student, and when we got back to Legends she found a table and talked to a group of trannys! I cant believe it, so we chatted away like a house on fire to these three ladies, who had rcenetly come back from a competition at The Old Ship Hotel. Now one of the ladies was 73, I was shocked, surprised and my ghast never quite so flabbered! Look good for her age she did, and they sure knew how to have a good time. I'm not saying who is who or which one is 73, just the one in the middle without the wig is David!

God, I'm not sure how much was drunk but my wallet was empty when we returned to my place, when and where Rach me and David played on the internet for a while till time for bed it was. Our own seperate beds in our own seperate places of course!

When I woke yesterday, I wish I hadn't! My head spun, my stomach churned, my body ached and a few moments later my bladder emptied and my bowels exploded. It was the mother of all hangovers, never ever have I felt that bad after a single night out, and never ever ever again am I drinking. I could hardly move, so most of the day I stayed put on the sofa, with the occasional walk for more water to flush the evil poison from my system.

I would hjave stayed on the sofa for the rest of my life had little Jake not forced me out and demanded I suffer the indignity of downing a couple of pints in Amsterdam, the bar not the country. Thank god it was only for a couple and then the little student treated me to a bag of chips on the pier! I know, how touristy, how common, how just perfect! We nattered about this, that, life, universe, number 42, love and pretty much everthing as the wind and dampness blustered at out faces and bodies. Oh the wonder of living by the sea.

Eleswhere in the real world, the inquest into the death of Dodi and Princess Diana has begun in London and the jury have been shown new pictures and CCTV footage of the couple as they leave The Ritz in Paris on that last night of their lives. I'm not sure about any of the conspircy theories that have been banded about since that sad day, but I sincely hope this inquest will answer some of the questions still hanging in the air and put to rest all the stories, gossip and romours. Hopefully, when this inquest has been completely, we'll be able to say for syure what really happened and for all our sakes, especially Harry and William, we'll be able to let her rest in peace!

Fifty years ago a team of Russian scientists had worked long and hard on the first man made object to end up in space, it was ' Sputnik' and was the first of it's kind to take to the region of space. It's amazing how far we have come in thsoe fifty years. The technological advances are sumpremely impressive, we've come a long long way, sadly they still dont have a cure for the common cold, but hey we know who to send things up in to space!

I've had some fab comments over the past couple of weeks, so thanks for that guys, do keep them coming in, I always like to hear what you think or have to say about what I've written, although the previous long comment has no relation to anything I've put on the blog, but it must have taken ages to write! Anyway, got something to say> Say it and comment now!

House DVD of series 3 comes out over here toward the end of the month and I'm so blooming glad about that. Regular readers will know I'm a big House fan, HL is simply great and Jesse Spencer is a dream to watch. Oh that sweet Australian voice, I could paper my walks with that voice, not to mention drift away staring into those eyes....gosh I'm almost getting carried away into fantasy land!. Anyway, the point being.....actually I've forgotton the point of starting this take on House so anyway, the DVD comes out the end of the month and whoopee! Fab, fancy buying it for me> Oh and having mentioned Jesse so much, seems to me a good reason to put on a pic of him! Ahh well then there was a point to my babbling!

Right, here we go, that is the end of it for today! More soon! .

The spice of life!

Wow, a whole four nights at work have passed by so very slowly,, two nights of boredom and two nights of semi boredom! It;s not been the busiest of weeks at work, which is good in one way in that we can relax a little, but in another way, it seems like each passing hour is 120 minutes long!

While I've either been working, or sleeping the world has carried on revolving, and democracy in Burma has been defeated yet again. The military crackdown in Burma is a reminder that street demonstrations and protests do not necessarily lead to success for the people. The military leaders in Burma have seen that the popular uprisings for a more democratic way of life have been squashed, well at least for the time being. Some say China was partly responsible, the crackdown was like something from a Chinese handbook on how to halt protests. About 4,000 monks have been rounded up in the past week as the military government has tried to stamp out pro-democracy protests, lead mainly by these compassionate people. The monks are being held at a disused race course and a technical college. Sources from a government-sponsored militia said they would soon be moved away from Rangoon. The monks have been disrobed and shackled, it's believed they will be moved away from the public spotlight, where they will either be forced into hard labour or executed. These demonstrations and protests have been the most serious challenge to the military leadership for more than two decades. And what have we done? Well the rest of the world has stood back and watched, occasionally our leaders, have uttered words akin to 'Oh that's bad, you shouldn't do that' but that was about as far as it went. Oh how easy is it to be complacent, how easy is it to do nothing?

Today has been a relaxing day for me, however not the same for other of my work colleagues, David had a bit of a 'Spice' Meltdown! Now, our David, is a bit of a 'Spice Girls' fan to say the least. I mean he once had to be dragged away by security one time when he refused to let go of Mel C! Anyhow, he got an email saying he was one of the lucky ones and was able to get tickets for the upcoming tour. He had internet problems and this and that transpired against him, but he's got some, he thinks. But, the world of the Spice doesn't stop turning there, oh no, after talking to David, I turned on my PC, checked my messages, I too got the Spice email and now, I'm the proud owner of 4 Spice Girls tickets for one of their shows at the O2 arena in London in January! They are £80 a pop and I don't even like the Spice Girls! Mind you, I'm kinda looking forward to going to the O2 arena, it's what was the Millennium Dome and I haven't been back there since the millennium, so it will be cool to see how much it's changed! So Spice Up Ya World! It was rater strange, in the media it was reported the reunion concerts sold out in 38 seconds, but they went on sale at 9am and I purchased mine just after 6pm! But hey, even if I don't go, I can always flog the tickets, apparently there are currently on sale on eBay for near on £900 each! Now that's one hell of a profit!

Have you every seen that TV prog called Made on MTV and other channels? It's all about these normal American kids who want to do something else, or become something else. There was this young lad, who was a little nerdy and wanted to become a B-boy and brakedance, the main reason was so he could get confidence and pull girls. Another in the series featured a girl who wanted to become a bike racer, so they worked hard on her cycling, the reason, she wanted to get a guy. So far all the Made's I've seen feature young high school students, who want to do something different in order to become more popular, turning their back on their true friends during the process, it's so shallow. Is this what are young people, our decision makers for the future become, completely selfish and shallow? Is there hope for a world, does every generation hate the one before and fear for the future of the next one? Ya never know, maybe they will make a Made, where someone wants to do something positive, for the benefit of others rather than themselves! Maybe, it could happen, but I doubt it!

So that so called singer Britney Spears has been ordered by the courts to hand over her two young children to her former husband Kevin Federline of K-Fed! He's been given custody of Sean Preston whose just two and one-year-old Jayden James, until further notice. Thank goodness for that, at least now Britney can completely self destruct without the children being harmed or put in mortal danger. I mean, if they were still living with her, she might start singing to them which is dangerous enough and that's surely reason to take the poor little buggers away!

52 two years ago, the Hollywood film star James Dean was killed in a road accident in California, USA. The 24-year-old actor was behind the wheel of his German-made Porsche Spider sports car when it was involved in a head-on collision with another car 30 miles east of Paso Robles on 30 September 1955. Dean, who was dead on arrival at hospital had suffered a broken neck along with other injuries had only recently filmed a safety film in which he urged drivers to slow down and not drive too fast and he'd only finished working on his third and last film Giant, the day before the accident. James, only made three films, East Of Eden, Rebel Without A Cause and Giant, the latter two not having been released at the time, yet within a year of his death nearly four million people had joined his fan club and his studio was receiving around 4,000 letters every day. Even now, his posters, photos and the very image of rebellious youth continues to make £100 million every year. Of course, like any cult hero, there have been conspiracy theories and rumours, one of which began shortly after his death that he was not actually killed in the car crash but was hideously deformed and is still alive in a Californian hospital. If that is the case, it has to be the best kept secret this world has ever known!

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That's it for now!

Affimation - Kids today

If I was to say to you, that, I believe the sun should never set upon anargument and if I were to add, I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem you'd probably think I'm a very thoughtful, introspective person.

Then if I told you I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned and that I believe the grass is no more greener on the other side and finished off by informing you I believe you don't know what you've got untilyou say goodbye, you'd probably be starting to wonder if I've suddenly becomebe a very contemplative intellectual, but you'd be wrong, all I'm doing is singing the lines of the Savage Garden song Affirmation!

This track still sounds as fresh to me as when I first heard it on the album a few years ago, its lyrics make still have the power to move and evoke true appreciation for the sentiment, created by Darren Hayes. Each time the line's swirl out into the ether I sagely smile and think to myself "how true that is" Such lines as I believe that beauty magazines promote low self-esteem are sosincere, yet we hardly ever think of that when we are flicking through the latest glossy and wish we looked like the slim sexy model. We aspire to the ideal yet are disappointed when we don't quite measure up. And how true is the emotion in 'I believe you can't appreciate real love until you've been burned? And, I believe you don't know what you've got until you say goodbye? I find it slightly ironic and rather sad that we, as humans, quite often don't really appreciate what we've got, until we don't have it anymore, be it possessions or people. If only we knew what we have when we have it, surely we'd take more care of it, treasure it and look after it with every inch of our fiber. I believe you can't control or choose your sexuality, sings our Darren Hayes breathlessly, I always used to say, and you fall in love with a person and not sexuality. And if you could choose sexuality, would any sane person choose one that's guaranteed to cause you to endure prejudice, discrimination, verbal and sometime physical abuse on an almost daily basis? It's also rather a pity that in those aforementioned glossy magazines they don't subscribe to the view that your most attractive features are your heart and soul? Life is unfair in that respect, why is it always harder to look passed the physical to the inner beauty than the other way round? How can it be that we can say so much without words and yet transversally we can talk for hours without saying anything at all?

Gosh, I think you can really appreciate what a slow night at work I've justs urvived! Anyway, here's the song:

Police in Hampshire are investigating allegations mobile phone footage of a "happy slapping" attack on a 14-year-old pupil was shown in his school classroom, by a teacher! Josh Wootton was attacked by eight youths near the Brune Park Community College in Gosport on 18th September. The boy's mother said the group filmed the attack and were allowed to play the video on a large screen in a lesson. The school said it was shown after the class finished by a teacher who was trying to identify those involved. But the first Josh or his family knew anything about it was when two girls in his class called round and told them. Kid's today, little darlings aint they?

Right oh fiolks, that's ya lot for now

Burma isnt working & posh isnt happy!

I've just completed the first of my shift of four nights on and I don't feel too bad really, all things considered. It passed by rather uneventfully, no major excitements or problems to contend with, which was all rather pleasant, well as pleasant as work can be at least. Straight out of work this morning I popped down to the prom for a brief walk and take a couple of snaps, the sea was like a mill pond, hardly a ripple on it's shimmering surface and just a gentle breeze coming from the east.

The view from the prom!

Before I went to work last night, I caught the news and like pretty much everyone I'm appalled by the shocking scenes of military violence in Burma. According to the official media 9 people had been killed yesterday, although with no outside media present, the death toll was probably much higher. Burma's security forces have sealed off the five main monasteries in Rangoon, the capital and declared them no-go areas to prevent anti-government protests. Some monks have been detained and loudspeaker trucks have been criss-crossing the city, warning people not to protect anyone fleeing arrest. Soldiers have blocked major intersections with barbed wire barricades. Some Burmese sources say internet access has been cut off in Rangoon and is only partially available elsewhere. The protesters have been making use of the internet to get pictures and video of the protests and the bloody crackdown to international news outlets. I'm sure these protests will continue for sometime and it's any ones guess how the situation is going to end, one thing is for sure though, there will be more blood shed.

When you see pictures and hear the stories coming out of the country it makes you thankful for the democratic way of life we are so privileged to enjoy. Life could be so much different, as is evident in Burma and many other countries around the world who don't share as much freedom as we have.

You love your job. Your supervisors give you top ratings. Then, one day, a colleague finds out you're gay. A week later, you find your desk emptied into a box. You're fired. The reason? Your sexual orientation. Here's the worst part: firing you for being gay was 100% legal. It's an outrage. In 31 states, you can be fired solely because you're gay – and if you're transgender, that's 39 states. Current federal law protects workers against discrimination based on their race, gender, religion, national origin, and disability—but NOT based on sexual orientation.

This is a fact of life right now in America, what are you doing about it? If you're an American, write to your Congressman, ask them to support the Employment Non-Discrimination Act.

Staying in the US for a little bit, I hear gossip that Posh, Victoria Beckham is increasingly unhappy out there in LaLa land. Despite the untold riches and the fact that David hasn't had to work that much recently, mainly due to injury, she's still not a happy bunny. A source unearthed by a couple of US tabloid type magazines, claim that things are not going well for them in LA. Victoria has been particularly upset and sobbed to David that their move may have been a mistake, no doubt as he counted his £25m a year wages. She's disappointed that her TV docucrap didn't go down too well that side of the pond and feels their future is rather unsettled. Could this be a case of big fish in a little pond going to a big pond and finding out their just Minos? And wasn't she unhappy and unsettled when they moved over to Madrid? Maybe it's a case of you can travel around the world, but no matter how far you go, you can't get away from yourself! Poor old posh, gosh can you just reach out and cut my sincerity with a knife!

Lily Allen has confessed that leading designers don't want her borrowing their clothes. Not because she makes them look crap, oh no, it's because she keeps damaging the designer goods before she gives them back. She told Cosmo, "I've been banned from some fashion places because I'm so crap with things. Christian Louboutin won't lend me clothes because my dog chewed the shoes he lent me. And I got mud on a Julien Macdonald dress, so he wasn't happy!" When I was told of this story, my first thought was, who the fuck cares? Do I still think the same? You bet I sodding well do!

More soon!!