Linkspam for 1-5-2008

[matgb]

• Make My Vote Count: London-wide elections: good for the parties, good for democracy
  I agree with Luke Akehurst. Stranger things have happened I guess: 'This contest has proved that low turnout happens when voters think a race is a foregone conclusion. Presented with a...close contest they will engage ... enthusiastically.
  (tags: electoral+reform election luke+akehurst turnout)
• Charlie Brooker - Be a ZOMBIE for Dead Set!
  Londoners! want to be in Charlie's TV show? 'We need volunteer zombies willing to appear in Dead Set, a horror thriller type thing Iâ™ve written for E4 / C4. It will doubtless be the finest TV programme ever made'
  (tags: TV charlie+brooker zombies)
• Humphrey Lyttelton Day : News 2008 : Chortle : The UK Comedy Guide
  A day of stuff about Humph. Has to be done. Shame it clashes with the FFW, ah well. Stephen Fry will present a newly commissioned profile of I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue, with extracts of the best programmes.
  (tags: humph Humour BBC radio+4)

Comments

[drjon.livejournal.com]

Charlie Brooker FTW!

[matgb]

Absolutely. Really must get around to watching more of his shows rather than just reading his columns.

Complete aside, been meaning to write this up, but innerbrat showed me the plugin I needed for automating the linksharing, and has done here how-to before me:
http://innerbrat.livejournal.com/526544.html

If you want to use it and want a different set of tags or title LMK and I'll do a separate script. I now have a massive backlog of links to post, need to get the new laptop set up first though, and it's election day so campaigning beckons.

[drjon.livejournal.com]

It's on my backburner right now, and I think the elections a tiny bit more important anyway. Good Luck! (and thank you)

(Oh, and ScreenWipe FTW. I spend a few days watching the series. I've seen nor read nothing more of his, but Screenwipe is Teh Classique.)

[matgb]

guardianbrooker is he:
http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/charlie_brooker/
Some of it is UK politics specific but most of it is still cool.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

As it will be broadcast on the Beeb, and therefore listen again will probably be an option, I'm sure you could make Humphrey Lyttleton Day last all week if you so desired.

[matgb]

This are good point, well made. Danke.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

I wonder if Stephen Fry could become the new ISIHAC chair? I really do hope that R4 doesn't see this as an excuse to cancel the show...

[matgb]

See, I'm torn, part of me wants the show to continue as it's Clue. But another part of me remembers Home Truths without Peel and suspects this might be similar.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

Hmmm - I'm not sure that's such a good comparison. I thought ISIHAC couldn't continue without Willie Rushton, but it did. It's a team show, and always has been, much like the News Quiz. Home Truths was much more dependent on JP as a narrator for everything.

To be honest, I hardly remember Humph back in the early days when I was listening to it as a Goodies fan...

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

I'm not sure anyone else can come out with Humph's lines with the air of innocence he managed. Nor do they really pull off the "what the hell am I doing here?" attitude he maintained.

I think it was the 30th anniversary show where one of the regulars said that while you could change panellists, it wouldn't work without Humph.

[purplecthulhu.livejournal.com]

But that's my point - I don't recall those aspects back in its first 10 years - Humph would've been in his 50s so some wouldn't have worked anyway. I don't actually think they were there, though I'm willing to be corrected.

[davegodfrey.livejournal.com]

Humph's autobiography gives the impression that he always had the "what the hell am I doing here" thing going on. I'm less sure about the levels of smut, they might have increased. Alternatively I might have started to get the jokes more often, what with getting older...