Archives for "September, 2009"

Posted by Brainwashable on 29th September 2009

I Dream of Zucchini

In reading a few of my dreams below, before you smugly think to yourself ‘wow, what a cock’, just know that my dreams are more important and interesting than your waking life.
#1. A lawn-mowing procedural
The other night I dreamed that I was mowing someone’s lawn.
They wanted me to give it a good short cut but [...]

Posted by Brainwashable on 25th September 2009

Suggestive Facebook Friend Suggestion

Most of Facebook’s friend suggestions are logical because they are the friend of a friend. But occasionally Facebook throws up strange, seemingly-random suggestions.
Here’s the perfect example: Facebook seems determined for me to be friends with Tanny McTits below and in weaker moments I am sorely tempted to oblige The Face, if it weren’t for the [...]

Posted by Brainwashable on 23rd September 2009

Arnold Schwarzenegger is inspirational

I caught an episode of The Apprentice last night in which the winning team’s prize was to meet Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Immediately The Apprentice became a hundred times better, and it’s already a pretty solid show, at least as far as reality TV goes anyway.
The meeting is temporarily hijacked by a brown-nosing team [...]

Posted by Brainwashable on 9th September 2009

Never forget to logout of Facebook

Facebook is fast becoming passe, but every now and then something happens to totally redeem it.
The other day I noticed an amazing status update by a friend.

I couldn’t believe it, was it for real? And if so, what was the exact combination of alcohol and self-hate required to reach this point? The answer, a few [...]

Posted by Brainwashable on 7th September 2009

The Riches

There’s a promo on C4 for a new show called The Riches.
It looks incredible, but that could be entirely due to Bob Dylan’s Shelter From the Storm playing over the top. It stars Minnie Driver (forever great after her character in Good Will Hunting wins over the lads with that nasty joke) and Eddie Izzard [...]

Posted by Brainwashable on 7th September 2009

The real youth of England

I have really enjoyed watching series 3 of Skins on C4. Tonight is the grand final and I’m as excited as a school girl.
Last week they finally wrapped up the Emily/Naomi lesbian subplot which was a relief – it had been dragging on through the whole series and really just needed resolution to make way [...]