“…if people were paid for writing rot such as I read in some of those magazines, I could write stories just as rotten. As a matter of fact, although I had never written a story, I knew absolutely that I could write stories just as entertaining and probably a whole lot more so than any I chanced to read in those magazines.” Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Category Archives: Celebrity
Unique Will and Kate wedding souvenirs at Brick Lane Robot Shop
April 27, 2011 – 12:37 pm
Although not overtly monarchist – the Brick Lane Robot Shop has nevertheless bowed to public pressure and issued its own unique Will and Kate souvenir wedding memorabilia. In line with our recent policy of shameless product placement, our Will and Kate wedding statuette has also been inducted to the rapidly-expanding Thus Quality Hall of Fame. [...]
Yuri Gagarin table lamp blasts into Thus Magazine Quality Hall of Fame
April 12, 2011 – 5:13 pm
50 years to the day after orbiting the earth for 89 minutes in a tiny capsule jettisoned from the mighty Vostok 2 rocket, Hero of the Soviet Union Yuri Alexeyevich Gagarin was awarded another gong. A plastic table lamp constructed in his honour has been inducted into ThusMagazine’s Quality Hall of Fame. The event, widely leaked on [...]
Names not numbers, Thus Spake Portmerion
March 15, 2011 – 2:33 am
….actually, not true. For once, I listened without fidgeting and kicking the seatback of the person in front. Except during the breaks, over breakfast, lunch, tea, dinner, in the bar, walking on the beach, on the bus, where I talked too much – I blame the coffee – listened and enjoyed the company of a [...]
Great Frog skull ring wins prestigious inaugural ThusMagazine Quality Award
January 12, 2011 – 12:49 pm
One of my New Year’s resolutions was to shape up, smarten up, put on a serious face and get back into the corporate world. But then I woke up. The benchmark test involved redeeming my daughter’s credit note from The Great Frog and buying a suit in the sales. I am now the owner of [...]
Next week, all UK mobile numbers will be fair game for spammers, scammers and buggers – not a lot of people know that
July 10, 2009 – 9:27 am
. . .and that’s the problem. The Directory of Mobile Phone numbers goes live next week. All numbers, including those belonging to children, will be potentially open to cold calling and the general abuse that unscrupulous telesales people subject us to. Unless you particularly wish to be cold called, deluged with text offers and – [...]
Some good news at last – News Corp lost £4.4 billion last quarter
February 9, 2009 – 11:09 am
Cheer up – the recession (depression, according to Gordon Brown’s most recent Freudian slip of the tongue) has some green shoots. You wouldn’t have noticed unless you were looking hard – the company in question is hellbent on global media domination and now owns the Dow Jones Wall Street Journal- but on Thursday, 5 February [...]
Sub Prime Saturday Night Live sketch was no joke
December 12, 2008 – 10:49 pm
I personally don’t find this sketch particularly funny or shocking, but it caused an enormous stir in the US,and was pulled and allegedly banned by in its earlier form by NBC, possibly and speculatively because it allegedly implies that a Hungarian philanthropist was largely responsible for the collapse of the US financial system. If so, [...]
Not a lot happened in Hay-On-Wye while I was there . . .
December 9, 2008 – 2:14 am
. . . but everyone says the party started after I left. By John J. Kelly Wordsworth famously observed that poetry takes its origin from ‘emotion recollected in tranquility.’ Art is emotion harnessed to artifice. The artist gives the impression of spontaneity. The work aims to evoke powerful emotions, but it is a representation of idealised [...]
It's official! Parasite blogging bastards have killed print journalism
Hold the front page – on second thoughts, don’t bother. There won’t be one to hold much longer. That bloody web thingy has eaten our journalists. Everything we hold dear – the right to be told what to think by poker-arsed blowhards in the pay of Illuminati kingmakers, fed and watered by PR lizards in [...]