Last Week In The UK, Icky Thump Edition…
Debating: Big Brother’s Emily’s racist outburst
Reading: ‘The Cold Moon’ by Jeffery Deaver
Playing: Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Viewing: Simon Cowell’s ‘Britains Got Talent’
Watching: ‘Oceans Thirteen’ Starring George Clooney
Listening: The White Stripes ‘Icky Thump’
Buying: ‘The God Delusion’ by Richard Dawkins
Searching: Paris Hilton, in jail, out of jail, in jail again
Anticipating: Father’s Day, next Sunday 17th June
Learning: Unemployment is back up to 1979 levels
Big Brother, BB8, BB Emily, Racism, The Cold Moon, Jeffery Deaver, Tomb Raider Anniversary, Tomb Raider, Lara Croft, Simon Cowell, Britains Got Talent, Oceans Thirteen, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, The White Stripes, Icky Thump, YouTube, The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins, Paris Hilton, Fathers Day, Unemployment, 1979
June 11th, 2007 at 11:24 pm
It’s hard to believe the Paris Hilton obsession is global, but then western culture has always loved a train wreck … or a ship wreck, or whatever.
Thanks again, as always, for the great links. They are fun to read and also good for post ideas of my own!
June 12th, 2007 at 1:20 am
And here I thought that it was “E Acky Thomp!”
Yes…that is an obscure reference. I know.
June 12th, 2007 at 8:13 pm
Elisa, I’m with you on this but I thought it was plain old “Ecky Thump” meaning “E by gum”.
Does it make you wonder Dave, how when you blog that unemployment is at 1979 levels people only care whether Hilton is in jail or whether the White Stripe have spelt their album name wrong?
There’s nowt as queer as folk…
June 13th, 2007 at 4:36 pm
Elisa and Ian, you’re both kinda right, Jack White got the name from Ecky Thump, as his wife is English and says it. He changed it to Icky Thump so Americans could understand it better.
Ian, That’s very true, the government certainly aren’t mentioning that unemployment is on the increase so I thought I’d better do it… Paris is a silly cow though