John Christie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Christie_(murderer))
Posed as a backstreet abortionist, then killed and sexually assaulted victims. The story was made into the excellent film "10 Rillington Place". I remember my nan had a book about the case which I read when I was too young to be reading that sort of thing - been fascinated by the case ever since.

This is a fucking outrage :

http://tinyurl.com/5udyqg

For all you facebookers, there's a petition and group - STAND UP TO FORM 696

If you're not on facebook, go to the online petition at http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/Scrapthe696/

FIGHT THE POWER.

Oh, that's easy. McCain choosing Palin as a running-mate.

It will very different tomorrow, but today it is :
1. What's Going On - Marvin Gaye
2. London Calling - The Clash
3. The Royal Scam - Steely Dan
4. In a Silent Way - Miles Davis
5. New Boots and Panties - Ian Dury
6. IV - Led Zeppelin
7. Sticky Fingers - Rolling Stones
8. Paul's Boutique - Beastie Boys
9. The Black Saint and The Sinner Lady - Charles Mingus
10. Sandinista! - The Clash

My T meme

Theatre of Blood (1973) Vincent Price's finest screen moment as a Shakespearean actor takes poetic revenge on the critics who denied him recognition.

Tea. I love tea. I usually drink three pots a night. You can’t beat a well made cup of tea along with...

Tunnocks (www.tunnock.co.uk)

‘The Timewaster Letters’ by Robin Cooper . Daft letters plaguing department stores, ‘collectors’ groups, associations and a certain children’s book publisher. My favourite is the letter to The Noise Abatement Society.

Tyrannosaurus Rex. 45 feet long and about 7 tons. Can you imagine what these buggers would have looked like close up? As a kid, I was OBSESSED with T-Rex. I suppose I still am. I hope that, in my lifetime, man invents time travel and someone goes back in time and brings one back. And then releases it inside Bluewater shopping centre.

T shirts. Where would we be without them?

Tonka toys. I had the classic yellow dump truck. I was bought it for Christmas when I was 5 and I stupidly didn’t take it with me when I moved out from my mum’s. She sold it in a boot sale in about 1996. It was the last time I cried.

Tubby Isaac’s. http://tinyurl.com/3rqdc8 Sea food stall founded by 'Tubby' Isaac Brenner in 1919, in Whitechapel. Tubby Isaac’s is a real London institution. As kids, we would always go and see nan on Sundays and, as a treat we would sometimes (and only sometimes) stop at the stall on the way home for some whelks, mussels, cockles and winkles. We’d always have it with my mum’s home-made bread, smothered in butter and lashings of tea.

The Arsenal. That’s THE Arsenal. No other club is referred to like this. People might use ‘the’ along with the team’s nickname (The Albion, The Hammers etc), but only Arsenal are The Arsenal. (You have to pronounce it ‘thee’ Arsenal).

Tropicalia. Gal Costa, Caetano Veloso, the MIGHTY Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil et al. I love it.

Hello.


I'll probably use this blog to post pictures and complain about how things have gone right down hill. At the moment I am working on a way to stop working and going to live in Cuba.