Quack my bitch up

E-harmony get the popcorn

Carling don't do holidays. E-harmony don't do rhyming slang. From their advert, you get the picture: they won't pair a lonely-hearted lady of a certain age, who likes films, with a popcorn machine of the same age, that also likes films. After the looking for a rather less superficial match sales pitch, there's something in there like:

“You'll meet your perfect partner, not just get the popcorn.”

Amazon reviewer gets it right

Sometimes I fall asleep with the headphones on. I worry about the wire strangling me, but not enough to stop. Amazon had that new ear sale warehouse clearout thing and emailed me. A couple of links later, there's a picture of an elastic headband with little speakers in it.

One reviewer wrote:

“I like this product because I like to listen to music while going off to sleep. And because I like to look like a tennis player when I'm in bed.”

Good news...

...a Robert Wyatt biography, and a new CD, both called “Different Every Time”...

...and no-so-good news

...not an album of new music, but a compilation to accompany the book. With the announcement that Wyatt may have decided to draw stumps on the whole composing / recording / mixing / mastering / releasing cycle. He deserves the retirement, he must be around seventy years old, the last forty five of those spent in a wheelchair.

It must be strange, too, being, or having been, a card-carrying communist party member, radical, progressive, militant personality, labelled as a national treasure. Apparently when he curated the Meltdown Festival, he considered a 'PC Gone Mad' theme, featuring no white, and no male musicians, unless they were threatened with deportation. He was going to call it the Anti-Ann Widdecombe Festival.

I like the idea of anything anti-Ann Widdecombe.

Mock Duck

Good name for a band.

“Chris P Skin and the Mock Ducks took the stage to uproarious applause and launched straight into their opening number, “Quack My Bitch Up”...”

Comes in a tin. Not sure what it's made of, as my Chinese is a bit rusty. Worked well in a curry, better texture than those too-Cubist Quorn cubes. On-line research has revealed that there's mock pork, and mock chicken on offer too. No mock beef or lamb, though.