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Enjoyed reading this far too much.

Every night, [Simon Cowell, creator of The X-Factor / American Idol] paces the empty corridors of his monochrome mansion, worrying whether he has calibrated correctly the mix of trainwrecks/ugly nightingales/Iraq-based backstories, or whether something – somewhere – is askew. Will one mistimed child teardrop in episode three be the Toto that pulls back the curtain, finally revealing that the great karaoke wizard is in fact nothing but a diminutive man working the levers of public taste with a mixture of enthusiastic opportunism and gnawing inner despair at how easy it is?

Read the whole thing.

Australia's batting looks fragile and apart from Lee the bowling seems toothless.  So I was relieved to watch this the other day:

 

And just a reminder of what Warne can do

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uj8Kn0a_tNA

 

If cricket's not your thing, I'm sorry.  I really am sorry.

Here - watch Robert Webb flashdancing...

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Growing up, Friday used to mean John Clarke and Bryan Dawe doing their 3 minute spoof interviews at the end of current affairs programme The 730 Report.

Good example of Australian humour.  Hope you enjoy them.

Front Fell Off

 

 

Iraq

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-fssfdTXdU&feature=related

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