Oh, Americans

You learn all sorts of interesting things watching the Food Network (something I do a lot). For instance, last night on Giada's Weekend Getaways, Giada visited London and we learned that "Trafalgar Square was built to commemorate the Battle of Trafalgar Square". I assume that the square was flooded for the occasion, while the celebrated admiral Nelson commanded operations from atop a custom-made column in the centre of the tiny battlefield. They probably boarded up the windows of the National Gallery so they wouldn't be smashed by cannon fire. Never let it be said that US cable channels don't take British history seriously.

In the old web-log mode again -- here are a couple of amusing news items, the first from me, the second courtesy of a friend:

Memo to the Dept. of Magical Copyright Enforcement

The UN lays the smack down on Megadeath

Duncan.

When passengers noticed the primate, they asked the man if he knew he had a monkey on him

Heh. Monkey.

I listen to a lot of Radio 2 at work, and Mark Lamarr has been playing a lot of a band called The Snugs, who are quite good. Their song "Strugglin'" is up on their Myspace page here.

Also, Drewsie sends evidence of the following complete bloody travesty involving the newly re-famous Lovejoy.

In other news we're off to Lake Geneva for the weekend (that's Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, not Switzerland) to stay in a garden shed disguised as a cottage, where Ian McShane will have no chance of finding us and recruiting us to save the world.

Duncan.