"Is Jamesward the same as Wardytron?"

It's the new "Is jamesward real!

It occurred to me last night that Butterfly Stitch remind me, in the best possible way, of the Beautiful South. Or perhaps just of recent karaoke renditions thereof by my friends. Something about putting the male and female vocalist up front together like that, giving the impression of a long-suffering couple whose feelings nevertheless remain strong.

It also occurred to me that just as one should be able to teleport between McDonalds or KFC outlets (because with a few exceptions, they're all the same place), so one should be able to time travel by means of the 12 Bar Club. Whenever you're there, the support act are the same, and the strange design of the stage means that even details such as haircuts do not impinge. Walk in, watch some knees during one song of generically lovelorn singersongwriterdom, and then walk out into 1986 or 2020.

Also on a time travel note; yesterday I read for the first time Invasion, one of 2000AD's launch roster from 1977, followed by a nineties satire thereof in Armoured Gideon. If anything, the latter was more dated, just as remixes so often pin themselves to their year while the original remains timeless.

( now let's try that via Portugese )

UK spies 'bvggered UN's Kofi Annan'

I genuinely thought that was what it said.

It didn't help that the picture has an air of 'Up The @rse Corner'.

edit: They've changed the picture now to one with Clare Short which isn't even vaguely UTAC. Spoilsports.