April 17th - April 23th 2006
Sunday Wapping 2006
Saturday Barking
Friday Apprentice (Tuan)
Thursday Piednoir
Wednesday White Swan 2006
Tuesday Overcooked
Monday If not If.. then Wham
Sunday 23rd April
Wapping, Spring 2006
(click for pix)
Saturday 22nd April
I know what it means; I know what it ought to mean
Lagniappe: (lan-yapp) - an Italian regional speciality consisting of interleaved layers of pasta, bechamel sauce and minced dog.
Friday 21st April
So, farewell then, Tuan - the nicest (and for my money the cutest) of the remaining Apprentice candidates.
But nice guys finish last - especially when they have a badger snapping at their heels.
Other than that, a relatively unmemorable episode this week, enlivened by Sugar-apparatchNick Hewer's description of the lamentable Syed as "All gong, and no dinner".
Thursday 20th April
Joanne Piednoir, 44, who is now disabled, was one of a group of "mature and well-behaved ladies" enjoying an evening at Liquid, in Windsor, Berks, when a minor altercation occurred, Reading Crown Court was told.
(So far, so veddy veddy tragic.)
Miss Piednoir, who weighs less than 8st, was involved in a dispute over a toilet roll and was asked to leave.
But there, right there, is the bit where farce pops up its ugly, grinning head.
(Besides: besides the issue of just how many flavours of dispute there can be over a toilet roll - doesn't that surname strike you as a little...odd?)
Wednesday 19th April
White Swan, Spring 2006
Tuesday 18th April
Gay London has been mildly agog with the rumour that a client of Chariots, the gay sauna chain, was found dead over the Easter weekend.
My continuing lack of domestic hot water has offered me the challenge of furthering my acquaintance with London's gay saunas (purely for hygienic reasons, you understand, and then only in the narrowest sense of the term); based on my recent experience, I'm ashamed to say I could only think of Dorothy Parker's reaction on hearing of the death of President Coolidge:
Monday 17th April
This weekend's Sunday Times broke a story that really belonged a fortnight earlier, in time for April Fool's Day.How else to reconcile the presence in the same space as, on the one hand, the late Lindsay Anderson, dour left-wing director of If.. and, on the other, shuttle-cocked proto-boy-band Wham?
George Michael is gay; Lindsay Anderson was gay - but apart from that they were poles apart; you certainly wouldn't expect them to agree on what constitutes a good time.
Wham's management, for reasons that remain entirely inexplicable, apparently hired Anderson to make a film promoting the group's ground-breaking concert in China. Cue endless shots of Chinese politicians talking around tables...
......previous week
