Days of Glory - the sex Olympics held immediately after an athlete's final event
— An anonymous female athlete, quoted in the New York Post, referring to the “post-competition attempts to fill each remaining day at the Village with as much alcohol-drenched sex as possible.”
You stay up all night and party, and you wait for McDonald’s to start serving breakfast at 4:30 in the morning,” she says. “You eat, sleep, then get up at 9 or 10 a.m. for press, and then you start partying all over again. Two years ago, it was Day 6 or 7 [of partying] for me, and I was like, ‘I quit.’ And they were like, ‘You call yourself an Olympian?’ ”
12 Jul 2012
Theatre: This ambitious puppet adaptation of Ted Hughes' Crow really doesn't work
Last month I excitedly mentioned a puppet adaptation of Ted Hughes’ Crow which was flying in to Greenwich. Well it’s arrived, and judging by a preview showing I saw last night it’s a dreadful mess. I was going to review it here, but I discovered that webcowgirl had already pretty much summed it up.
“Two days after seeing Handspring Puppet’s Crow, I amazed that no one saw fit to stop this train wreck.”
There’s nothing worse than actors running across the stage, doing a twirl and running back again. And there was an awful lot of that, and nowhere near enough poetry.
Great review of what is, alas, an ambitious disaster. Tickets available here!
Webcowgirl – Review: Crow – Handspring at Greenwich Dance Borough Hall
21 Jun 2012
The police have a new weapon against anti-cuts protestors: potato salad
In an illuminating insider’s report on the weekend’s UK Uncut protest party outside Nick Clegg’s house, Rikki at Indymedia warns protestors against accepting police hospitality. Apparently potato salad was offered as ingratiation ahead of some sly questions about the participants’ intentions.
[He doesn’t say what potato salad the Met favoured, but in my experience the judicious addition of the under-appreciated radish makes all the difference. This recipe is a good one.]
It looks like a happy event, despite the over-simplification of complex issues.
For example, one picnic-goer, Jean Sandler, is quoted in the Mail:
“No one voted for Cameron and Clegg’s disastrous plan that means that we end up paying for the banks’ crisis. These cruel cuts are designed to destroy our public services, the NHS, the Welfare state and our future.”
Denying the legitimacy of an elected government is a good way of making yourself sound like extremist cranks.
Indymedia london – uk uncut great british street party at clegg’s
Channel 4 food – Potato and radish salad recipe
28 May 2012
Threats to kill allegedly enliven Tower Hamlets council meeting
The compulsively readable Ted Jeory has news of the Tower Hamlets councillor arrested last night over an alleged threat to kill. In the council chamber.
Read his post, for details. It contains the phrase “Sopranos but with curry.”
17 May 2012
Mayor Johnson identifies with the hapless mayor of Amity Beach from Jaws
- Mayor Boris Johnson in response to the question, Who is your favourite hero of fiction in the May 2012 edition of Vanity Fair. In the novel and in the film, Amity Beach mayor Larry Vaughan refuses to close the beach after a woman is eaten by a shark to placate a business community worried about the tourist trade. This results in several more deaths.
15 May 2012
Mayor Johnson wants "a Tory" as next Director General of the BBC
Mayor Johnson’s latest column for the Telegraph calls for the overt politicisation of the role of Director General of the BBC, to go with the former Conservative minister now chairing the BBC Trust. He also says:
“I speak as one who has just fought a campaign in which I sometimes felt that my chief opponent was the local BBC news”.
Which reflects very well on Tim Donovan, his fucking bollocks, and the rest of the BBC London newsroom. It’s not the press’s job to make the Mayor’s life easy. The Standard’s perfectly able to do that on its own.
14 May 2012
Council vote sends Walthamstow Dog Track one step closer to the knackers yard
Daniel Binns of the Walthamstow Guardian (as was) live blogged a fractious council meeting last night, in which Labour councillors outvoted Tories and Lib Dems 4-3 to approve development on the site of Walthamstow Stadium. Many locals want the stadium back as a greyhound track. Developers want to build nearly 300 homes.
The live blog tells you what you need to know, including that the final decision could now rest with the Mayor. Those who want the track back think they have his support…
09 May 2012
New York chef slams London's food scene and refuses to order our burgers
New York chef April Bloomfield insults our honour in an interview with Food Republic. Has she never heard of kebab shops? She also claims New York is better than London for cocktails, bars, farmers markets and coffee. “If I’d go back I’d probably never order a burger in London,” she says. Ouch.
05 Apr 2012
Christian Voice blames Tesco shop's mouse infestation on its support for Gay Pride
— Stephen Green in The Christian Voice blames the temporary closure of the Covent Garden Tesco by Westmister Health authorities on a plague sent by God.
Hat tip @paulwaugh
29 Mar 2012
St Patrick's Day options: Booze + either rugby or Irish dancing
Kent Brockman describes St Patrick’s Day, which is tomorrow! Many of you will mark it by getting drunk and disgracing yourself in front of the rugby. If that’s sounds bit too Irish for you, The Roundhouse in Camden has an afternoon of traditional Celtic music, basket weaving, and blarney stone painting. Details here. Then there’s more stuff on there in the evening. Booze optional, remember.
16 Mar 2012
Snipe Highlights
Some popular articles from past years
- The best church names in London, and where they come from
- Silencing the Brick Lane curry touts could be fatal for the city's self-esteem
- Nice map of London's fruit trees shows you where to pick free food
- Nice Interactive timeline lets you follow Londoners' historic fight against racism
- Margaret Thatcher statue rejected by public
- Diary of the shy Londoner
- Number of people using Thames cable car plunges
- The five best places in London to have an epiphany
- A unique collection of photos of Edwardian Londoners
- An interview with Desiree Akhavan
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