I was pleased to see that the UK Paralympics organisers took the advice of loveandgarbage and for the London part of the closing ceremony have 'The crimes of Jack the Ripper communicated using the medium of interpretative dance' (see http://loveandgarbage.livejournal.com/289673.html ). Also, I was impressed that they included Lord Nelson, probably the country's most famous disabled person...

Re: That rather disappointing drama about Mary Whitehouse last night- What was the name of the bearded transgressive writer who demanded a right to reply to Mrs Whitehouse, and wrote the scripts to several programmes attacking her? Was he a real person, or just a composite "new generation" character to make the plotting easier? I've done some research but can't find anything. On the subject of Whitehouse...

ITEM! I've been luvvin' the finals of the great british menu this week ( if only they didn't bother with all the other weeks - or at least drag it out quite so much - it seems like it's been going on forever ) - & am especially looking forward to tonite's results prog criswell predicts...! - ie w.o.agwu's choices for the gherkin banquet for heston blumenthal & gompany: starter: a BLT in a glass...

I found out today that someone I vaguely knew on a messageboard - and had vaguely known for years - had died unexpectedly at the age of 50. Which was sad. Then I got into an argument with some idiot who thought that because we'd never met the guy and didn't know his real name, we didn't have the right to be sad, or to mourn. The thing is, he really didn't seem to understand that it's possible to...

Meme - tagged by loveandgarbage List seven songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now, shaping your spring. Post these instructions in your LJ along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to. At first I thought that this would be impossible...

I seem to be watching a lot of telly these days - or to put it more accurately I seem to be watching a lot of good telly these days. The hard-disc recorder has been a real boon in this regard, meaning that instead of wandering in in the hope of catching something interesting, I now watch stuff taped a few days ago (with the added advantage of being able to skip past the adverts. Quite why ITV 4...

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Christmas and Who: Paul Cornell's Doctor Who story Solstice: The Newgrange sunrise webcast as people gather where their ancestors did 5000 years ago (live at 0830 GMT this morning, but you can already watch yesterday's on the archive) - see also Kieran Healy on Crooked Timber . Charity: _rand0m_ donates his hair to charity . Tragedy: ailbhe on Omagh loveandgarbage...

Doctor Who's first producer dies Doctor Who's first producer, and the BBC's first female TV producer, Verity Lambert, has died aged 71.

After people complained that my last numbers quiz was too easy (congrats to loveandgarbage and for getting it - and bohemiancoast but for a slip of the keyboard), pwilkinson has put forward this counter-challenge: 1111110 12220 321 222 250 110 132 156 He says it's related to the original , but, he asks, how? (At first glance I wonder if the last three are in the...