Strangely Perfect

Students die in India as bus plunges into river The above headline is awful enough for the people involved, but in reality, it’s subject, a road crash, is common enough in my own country, the UK. What is really bad is how the BBC is reporting this.  They should know better but essentially, they’ve reported [...]

Who?  Who Are Megrahi and Calley Megrahi is a Libyan, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering 270 people by blowing up a 747 over Lockerbie in Scotland – but released early after 8 years (but 10 years in prison) and sent to Libya to die of cancer. Calley is an American, convicted and [...]

I’ve just had a hit from someone looking for Colony Holidays…  Sooo I’d better write this down fast!  I’ve been meaning to do it for a while. Colony Holiday Etc A few years back I fished around on the web to find out what had happened to the CCHS, Council of Colony Holidays for Schoolchildren.  [...]

One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know – and I’m no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig: View Larger Map ….and this is a dude in a farty twat car, debating whether to [...]

Still cracks me up.. Flashback Caruso is still there for me… Try this Faust website for info.  Bury deep.

In the news today, although you’d hardly think so because of the Israeli / Palestinian conflict, is the story that the Ukraine can’t pay their gas bills.  I apologise for it being a bit buried amongst the profits’ statements etc, but hey!, I didn’t write it. BBC – Gazprom sees profits jump by 85% GazProm [...]

In a post a while back,  I mentioned that I’d like to see the version I saw on telly where these geezers in period costume using real period instruments played The March while wandering around the cloisters…  Well this is nearly it! I’m not sure that this is a live recorded video as microphones are [...]

Ahoy there! Now we are fully sated in our lust for fresh information on the Credit Crunch and the US Presidential elections, we can now see what’s really going on in the world as the news organs adjust focus for something else to talk about as Ross and Brand are old hat now. Apart from [...]

After the recent evacuative pleasure I had after eating several serious amounts of short-grain brown rice, I was reminded of something I saved to my hard drive a while ago that I got from the web. So I  thought I’d share the anally comic missive below with everyone.  I don’t claim it’s a work of [...]

Extra information about the final years of Crawling Chaos when visiting the White Elephant in Ashington last weekend

http://maps.google.com/?z=7&ll=55.084656,-2.06543&om=1 The pictures show Budle Bay, Bamburgh Castle, George the dog (mine!), Stublick Moor (bog & hill), Pennines with some vestiges of winter snow on the way from Alston to Hartside Pass, views from Hartside on the way down to Melmerby looking west towards the Lake District. Bamburgh was on Saturday and the weather was [...]

I’ve had this Faust tune in my head all day with a sprained ankle to accompany it. youtube The clip is recent, … but I like an old fart I prefer the original recording which is visible here at the faust pages. Funnily enough I keep getting it merged in my head with Robbie’s Advertising [...]