Ice, Ice Baby

Hello Readers,

I hope you are all lovely. Sadly I'm not. I have been a cross boy this week. Like every year the trains have come to a standstill the minute a bit of cold weather comes along. Two days on the trot my train to work has got cancelled. I sat on a platform for thirty minutes today and almost died from sub zero temperatures. And this is coming from a fan of the winter. Luckily I had the new Doctor Who magazine to read. Without that though I could have lost it totally and I could be in a mental home by now. Don't the train companies think of that? All they need to do is buy scarfs and hats for the signalling equipment to keep it nice and warm. That can't cost that match. And the signals would look both cute and cool at the same time.

What do you think about people that sign off emails with just the first letter of their name? Loads of my friends do this. I just don't understand how it can take much longer to write your whole name like you did back in the olden days. Email has a lot to answer for where laziness is concerned. It's so much nicer when someone finishes an email with their whole name. If you are lucky you may get a full stop with some dudes, eg 'P.' I might start a bring back your whole name on email campaign. Will you join me comrades?

I really fancy a curry tonight. I hope the wife agrees. We can then watch Doctor no.5 meet no.10 on the Doctor Who 'Children In Need' Special afterwards. That is the kind of night to beat all other nights eh? A top takeaway and brilliant TV. The rest of 'Children In Need' will no doubt be rubbish though. I know it's a good cause but there are only so many times you can watch newsreaders sing in drag. I will donate something though as they went to the effort of a doing a proper Doctor Who special. And it's good to help the kids. Though each time they put phone numbers over the Doctor Who special asking for cash I shall take off a pound from my donation. Just wait to the end with your phone numbers BBC and I'll whip out my debit card then.

Excessive on-screen phone numbers ruins things like Comic Relief. You are watching a 'funny' sketch then your attention gets taken away by all the rolling phone numbers for donations. You then miss the joke and as a consequence you are so cross you don't care about the famine victims and homeless dudes. Until Billy Connelly goes to Africa of course. He will then have a cry as one of the little children will be dying of Aids or malnutrition. But then he will say how they have great spirit as a little boy, with Aids, will play football with his mate (who also has Aids). And to make it even more heart wrenching they won't have a football but instead they will use a big stone. This will break their already brittle feet when they play with it. If Billy Connelly can't make it some other 'comedian' or TV 'personality' will be sent to show their sensitive side (Like Angus Deaton. He is saying "Look I don't just shag whores, act smug and take cocaine. I can go to Africa too and cry). I like what 'Comic Relief' and what 'Children in Need' do, but surely there are better ways to do good TV and get money off us?

Do you know what else gets my goat? I shall tell you blog fans. It's fools who maintain that singers from reality shows are "flash in the pan" or that you have no chance of success if you win or do well. Now I don't maintain these singers are any cop, but I reckon at least seventy percent them have a few years of fame. Girls Aloud have being going for five years, Will Young is still dead popular, Lemarr who came 3rd in Fame Academy is still around, Leona Lewis is no.1 in both single and albums charts at the moment, Shane Ward is back (!) and Liberty X were big for years (I can think of lots more to boot!). Of course there are your Steve Brookstein's and One True Voices... BUT most reality final contestants have pretty good careers I reckon. Even that singing dustman has sold millions of albums. Most of the X Factor top 10 each year seem to end up in top West End theatre shows if they don't make the charts - like that Brenda woman and that weird tiny chap from Brookside. I don't agree with it, or even like it but I hate this smug dudes who say "What's the point of reality shows, they are all forgotten tomorrow". They ruddy well aren't. Having said that I used to love The X Factor but its rubbish now. It's more staged than ever, and the contestants are terrible. Strictly Come Dancing is the show for me. If I ever get famous I will go on it. I would like to dance with Camilla as she is quite pretty, and she has funny sticky out teeth that are quite endearing.

People are still using camera phones at gigs.

And did I tell you I might be moving to LA?

Marc x