Liquid bonving

[alexsarll]

A great weekend for sport, with the first UK bonving of the season (or indeed, several seasons). The beauty of bonving is that it's such a ridiculous activity, and takes place so infrequently, as to render talent and skill deeply marginal; few trends develop, and former championship contestants can quite easily find themselves trousered.
Obviously I can't pretend that was the only sport this weekend - there was also some football, taking up a couple of minutes of Doctor Who which I presume Matt Smith very much enjoyed filming, having himself only narrowly been saved from a life of footballism by some injury or other (o felix culpa). 'The Lodger' was a lovely little episode, with the emphasis on 'little'; the tacked-on suggestion that the (unexplained) ship might work its way through the whole population of Earth aside, this was about some disappearances in Colchester, nothing more, and before that, about one man who needs a bit of a nudge to sort his life out. Insufficient Pond, clearly, but a lovely Matt Smith showcase. And next week - Drahvin! Chelonians! Monsieur Moffat, you are spoiling us.

Other recent activities: an Oxford Dons read-through (repurposed for radio, it's now longer and wronger); Will Ferrell as George W Bush, hilarious as you'd expect without being as obvious as it could have been; the Bowie Bar, with some frankly scandalous behaviour from one rock star in particular, though I don't think that was what caused one of the DJs to have a meltdown in the Gents; improving my recent ONLY WAR average; seeing Daniel Kitson perform what I hadn't realised was the final ever 66A Church Road show, a very moving and only incidentally comedic meditation on home, and memory, and the evils of the property market, which I had also seen at a very early work-in-progress show, making me feel I've lived with it just like he lived in the eponymous flat, getting me into a strange sort of self-reflexive nostalgia for a show about nostalgia.

Charlie Stross on the perils of near future science fiction; it's hard to outrun the advancing present.

Comments

[xandratheblue.livejournal.com]

On a slightly OT point, I'm not so convinced by that Robyn album your song comes from. I like the single from it, but the rest just feels pedestrian, in admittedly a very well-recorded way.

I really liked that last episode, though I still don't know WHY THE SHIP DISAPPEARED AT THE END!

[vertigoranger.livejournal.com]

I've got my nose in the first draft of Rule 34 by Stross at the moment (yay for LJ), and one of the background details is that the supermarkets were nationalised, because they've eaten all the logistics needed to run a country; banks and post offices to the retail sector and the petrol stations. Interested to see how that one turns out. Jury is still out on whether Scottish independence will fall into the category of interesting rather than accurate prediction.

He's pretty emphatic when he says that Halting State is already obsolete.

[puzzled-anwen.livejournal.com]

I have no idea who/what these Drahvin/Chelonians are, but I am QUITE EXCITED about next week's Who. I am also QUITE EXCITED about having real computer, as this means I can perv over Beyoncé: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKqIgqJEH-o *faints* (Ooh, and I can finally see new GaGa, hurray!)