More Brighton pix

 Some more snaps from my recent trip to Brighton because, why not? It's such a great place.

An Unearthly Fuss

 

How one writer’s son stopped Doctor Who’s first four episodes appearing on the iPlayer

 It seems that the placing of all the extant classic Doctor Who being made available on the iPlayer will be missing four vital episodes.  Variously called `An Unearthly Child` or `The Tribe of Gum` this was the world’s first encounter with the Doctor and for a select few fans the series was all downhill from here. (I’m joking, aren’t I?) The son of the story’s credited writer Anthony Coburn- who is called Stef Anthony Coburn - has declined the BBC’s payment for the story meaning the episodes cannot be included in the iPlayer package. There’s quite a bit to unpack in this incident not least because X (aka Twitter) has been busy with messages ranging from sympathetic support to vituperative allegations as the drama frogs swarm. 

 

The Line, The Cross and The Curve

 

If Kate Bush fans can sometimes treat her work with reverence, it says something about the artist that she is less precious about such matters herself. She's tinkered with old albums and famously dismissed this 1993 short film as “a load of bollocks” later on but at the time poured considerable effort into directing as well as writing and starring in it. Its thirty years old so in the continued absence of new Kate Bush material (though a new album called Hidden Pearls has been  rumoured for a while) I thought I’d have another look at it.

 

Remember Frosties Ad Kid?

 

Recently I accidentally had some Kelloggs Frosties for breakfast and they were dreadfully sweet even though they probably don't contain as much sugar now as in their heyday. It reminded me that back in 2006 the most annoying advert ever appeared on our screens and accumulated a lot of hate on the day's favoured online platforms. For a while `Frosties Ad Kid` became the most disliked person on the Internet. Luckily Twitter only just launched that year and was still relatively small or it could have been worse.  You may recall the ad in which a bog brush barnetted boy was seen singing tunelessly in a Suggs from Madness stylee about how the cereal is “gonna taste great” as he leads the whole town along the street like some Frosties Pied Piper. Tony the Tiger, the cereal's previous face, must have been unavailable.