gillyp, posts by tag: twitter - LiveJournal

Your goodbye was dignified, graceful and moving.

( Twitter's (rather predictably) on fire...Collapse )

No doubt this one will run and run, but I have an appointment with Chuck and a very stiff drink

ETA: It's official. Cameron's PM. oh bugger.

The leader's in the debate is fascinating.

But as usual, Twitter rules for the laughs.

via Twitter.

Would you like a DVD released for The Goodies 40th anniversary? If so, plz to be signing the petition.

In other news, I would like to commend to you all, the Hot Cross Beer currently on special offer in Morrisons; spicy, intense, highly unusual and very, very yum.

Dara O'Briain is currently tweeting to Ed Byrne about some slashfic he's been sent featuring the two of them.


"Ed threw his cigarette down and stubbed it out with his foot, his eyes leaving Dara, just for a second. Only a second, though"

I'm not posting the link. It's really poorly written, loads of clumsy "Irish" references e.g. "Looking shyly up from his pint of Guinness..."



And I find myself wondering, who amongst you is responsible for this outrage against taste and decency? No one's going home till the culprit owns up.


@daraobriain and @edbyrnecomedian - if you're on Twitter and feel the need.

The Marmarati (Marmarati) is now following your tweets on Twitter.

Should I be afraid?

From Jason Arnopp via Twitter:

Muswell Hill, chewing gum art, turning the yuk into the astonishing.

I pass on some future awesomeness from Step-Hen Free. Praise Be The Tweet.

I'm trying to start a new novel but being mightily distracted by Twitterer @alun_vega sending minute by minute reports of watching the filming of Doctor Who. It's riveting, almost hypnotic...

Work on The New Novel delayed by indecision on which novel to actually write, a sequel to Entanglement or teh one about a stranded-alien-living-at-the-seaside one. Such a quandary-stroke-dilemma.

wot I found on the electric interwebs.

6 writers who accidentally crapped out masterpieces.

Why oh why does SF never get the Booker?

Well, they tell me it's Saturday. I suppose they could be lying but then, why would they bother, you know? But then the Met office said it would be sunny and they lie! for it is darkly grey and ominous and suspiciously warm.

A sleepless night after a tiring week has left me a well-knackered bunny. I had planned to use this day wisely and well in printing out the 3rd draft of Entanglement and doing that all-important 4th edit but I'm mildly scared I'll find that it's wall to wall shit now it's been sent to an agent and then worry. Why do that to myself, I cannot help but ask? Also the continuous interruptions - water meter man, post men, couriers, an itinerant hedge cutter - have done nothing to help my resolve to stare at the wall work on the book.

So, all of the above plus the aforementioned tiredness and my natural inklination to idleness leads me to endlessly peruse Twitter, t'internet and my current crop of reading, some self-chosen, some chosen for me (and for which I shall have to write reviews alas). For the bookly minded, these be:

Breath, Tim Winton. Surprisingly readable and really good.
Makers, Cory Doctorow. Frighteningly long.
Day After Night, Anita Diamant. A review copy and not my cup of tea at all ('Extraordinary true story', internment, Polish Zionist, Holocaust! run away, run away!!!) but I shall do my duty and hope (but not expect) to be pleasantly surprised.
The Thirteenth Tale, Diane Setterfield. Been wanting to read this for ages but work keeps getting in the way.
Vineland, Pynchon. Ditto.
The Men Who Stare at Goats, Tom Ronson

Tea now, I think. I'm currently working my happy way through a box of Twining's Lemon Grove which I hadn't had before and is surprisingly delicious. It tastes of lemon Opal Fruits which can only be a Very good thing. New Californication on the box tonight, also a repeat of the Robbie Coltraine, John Sessions Boswell thingum.

In short, life is currently pleasing me in a sound and goodly way, I hope she is doing the same for you, too, my esteemed and doxilicious flist. Here, have a sprinkling of pink sugar-dusted, sparkly cherry-vanilla kisses. XXXXXXXXXXXXXXX

Whatever Mark's using in the bath, it smells bloody awful.

ETA: Too good not to share (Caution, contains Dan Brown).

That the estimable Mr. Stephen Fry is in LA filming another episode of Bones.

Dear god, I wish he wouldn't. It's such a painful caricature, a Mary Poppins Englishman, the cultural-assassination  equivalent of blacking up and singing 'Mammy'. It makes me cringe, deed it does.

And where's the new series of QI? 6 months since they filmed it and I say, is this what we pay our license fee for? It's an outrage, it really is.

listening to Boswell's Life of Johnson on Radio 4 whilst following @DrSamuelJohnson's most amusing Tweets:

Fool BOSWELL is making a great Sycophant of him-self on th'invisible Idiot Box on Radio IV... The Actor who plays me is no GARRICK; I sound like a Steam-Engine cross'd with Bow Street Runner Inspector MORSE... Scotch Libertine BOSWELL protests of his Clap & Membrum-Rot 'pon Radio IV... @RealBoswell Sir, th'invisible Mummer-Troupe of Radio IV render you as a great DULLARD, a Simon MAYO of our Age.

They make a lovely couple.

Fox 'News' continues to amuse with it's deranged absurdity.

and I have a new Aga! Lawks a lawdy, it's hot in here! It smells a bit funny at the moment but we're assured that will wear off in a few hours and in the meantime - omg! heating and hot water and cookery! and heating and - did I mention how bloody hot it is in here? I shall post a picture as soon as the camera stops playing silly buggers.

And Twitter for a Nobel Prize? and is it Saturday already? And will it ever stop raining? And look at Gaiman's library O:!

Do I ramble? I think I'm being affected by the unbearable heat. Where's Omid Djallili when you need him? Well, on YT of course.

I think I need coffee. Maybe some toast.

The Whig sees it as a Nest of Tories, when 'tis a Nest of FOPS! Thus quoth @DrSamuelJohnson on Twitter. Never a truer word, sir.

A brief perusal of Dr Johnson's esteemed followers brought me to a veritable virtual coffee shoppe of most esteemed gentlemen and ladies in the forms of @RealBoswell (And now to th' NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY, where I aim to gaze Fondly at picktures of MYSELF), @TophamBeauclerk (Can any tell me who is the - so-call'd - Prime MInister of this land? The rogue goes a-missing it seems, whenever factional Battle looms), @LaurenceSterne (Mr Cameron,Tory, is angered that AL MCGRADY, the adopted Scot, has retired to foreign climes. Does he want the 'Med' for English OAPs alone?), @JonathanSwift79 (This is both a bankless and thankless holiday. Stella and I arrive at 'Starbucks' expecting whaling equipment, but get an AMERICAN muffin!), @MrAlexanderPope (O RUBICON! what Treachery is this? / Thou sayest, 'Water-Melon'; meanest, 'Piss') which is, frankly, just confusing. @RTristramShandy (He may walk but I enchant (so sir recant!)), @HesterThrale (Planning a trip to Brighton to catch the last rays of the dimming season and escape this frightful London summer), @AaronBurrJr (Just finished my book: "10 things I loathe about the articles of Confederation & that whoreson Hamilton". My place in history is assured.), @TobiasSmollett (feels trepanned by the Internet.) and @TrumpHogarth (The Poor do have but two Delights: FORNICATION and GIN, & of the two, Gin be the more desir'd for it lasts a longer time & is CHEAPER).

This has been the cause of most goodly giggles and yes, I hath friended them ALL.

I'm just taking a short break from the Dreade Submission (cup of green cherry sencha and a banana, should you be curious). I've finished the letter, the infamous Query the writing of which always gives me such a case of the vapours. I've been going over my first three chapters, which a good and trusted friend assured me were Good but which I now see are far from. The things in their entirety are, indeed, naught but a pile of skiddy pants and need must be re-written with a most severe pen. I've cut a good 20% of it, shunted a few pars about. Just 5 pages left to sort out now and I can send it winging through the ether to Mr Ian Drury of Sheil land in Doughty Street, then set about prepping stuff for the next agent in the queue.

It's all a bit of a bastard, I can tell you.

OK then, tea consumed, sustenance taken, loins girded, best be back about it I suppose.

Stephen Fry tweets:  Damn this cricket is tense. I'm having arse babies.

I thought you might like to know. In other news, our new lawnmower is doing a most splendid job down the frighteningly wild, surprisingly vast side garden. A lawn may yet be achieved, despite sudden unexpected vole attack.

It's gone all dark out there, it's going to pee it down, isn't it? Time to open the wine, methinks.

Probably my last post on this for the weekend.

Glinner just posted a link to a blog post from an American who lived in the UK who puts the record on the NHS about as straight as it can be, I think. Very fair, very reasoned, very well written.

And now I really musty get my act together and pack my bag. It's FRIDAY people! Let us give thanks and be merry.

So Cameron finally weights in but

email?

Did he say email? O:!

Twitter where it happenin' bro, get with the Zeitgeist Dave, I mean to say, email? So 2004! And you're 2 days late man, Gordon was Twittering his support in minutes.

*G*

Nice article on Graham Linehan who started it all.

Even Fox are backpedalling!

Ah. Enjoyable LOLs but I really must do some work now.

Is the top trending topic on Twitter tonight! Srzly, it's gone mental! Entertaining and educational. ::nod::

...anyone?

ETA: 8.19. S'OK, it just came back on again. (phew!) *g*

ETA2: Up and down like the proverbial cheap tart's knickers. Twitter saying they've been under attack (again). What the frack is happening out there on teh interwebs?

via Twitter.

Amazing what you can pick up in Sainsburys now.

Reports suggest massive co-ordinated attack on LJ, Facebook, Google may have been aimed at a single user

He's still on Twitter but I can't get to his LJ.

From Wossy, at comicon, via Twitter

And to think I had that bum right in my face just a few short weeks ago. ::ponders::

would have been freakish and thoroughly bizarre yet almost unspeakably brilliant.

From Matt Lucas - via Twitter, of course - where else?

Am I the only bugger on LJ today?

Wow. I'd've thought it was more than that, I'm pretty straight! *g* Due, apparently, to my use of the words bollocks, cheap, gay, bits and bitch! Ha!

If you're on Twitter, you can find out how straight (or not) you are.

In other news, I appear to be unwell, not massively, just a bit; headache, slight temperature and a really annoying pain behind the eyes. I was visiting a Swine Flu area on Sunday. Could this be it? Stay tuned to this LJ to see if I survive the next 36 hours!

Better get my LMFA noms in I suppose, before it's too late.

Has anyone else been following this? It started on Twitter (where else?) but it's all over the place now.

Here a version, there a version, version, version,  everywhere a version! It's been killing me all morning.

Why yes, I should be working.

Why yes, I am rather bored, why do you ask?

ETA:Star Wars, Ghostbusters...  there's more  and more! heeee!!!!

hahahaha!