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Possible sleeping pill overdose, inconclusive corroners report. Thoughts and feelings as you'd expect with the friends and family. Well, mostly...

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Heath Ledger's gone...

This is truly gutting!! I don't think anyone could have seen this one coming. He seemed a really down to earth guy, and a highly commited actor.

Found this on the BBC...kind of spooky when he says playing the Joker was the most fun he'd ever have.....



He leaves behind a 3 year old daughter. Hope she's gonna be ok!

I'm the reason they say White People Have No Rhythm...

Great night out in London on Saturday night, at a place called the Rivoli Ballroom for, would you believe it, Jive Dancing! That's right, The Blanch went Strictly Come Dancing Style with a group of friends and came out in one piece...other people's feet weren't so lucky mind! I always thought I had a good sense of rhythm, I play guitar, I...tap away on the steering wheel.....I - and I never thought I'd admit to this but doubtless there's some youtube footage somewhere - used to try and dance like Jacko. (Hey, don't judge me, I was young!!) Imagine my embarrasment then when the music started for the first lesson and anything even resembling hand/feet/eye co-ordination was systematically wiped out...by the Dormant Dad Gene! You've seen it at work before; at family weddings, parties or when the patriarch of the family has been cooking Christmas dinner fuelled only by wine or whisky! But here it was, alive and kicking - literally - during the lessons with completely random women, and later with my darling missus who next to me must have looked like J Lo's dance coreographer!

But I don't care what people think, and my embarasment threshold is higher than many, so I kept busting some moves. Fortunately/unfortunately (depending on your POV) there is no photographic/video evidence us tearing up the dance floor. The best example I can give you, is Chandler from Friends!!



Booya!!!

It's a top night out though, and well worth a trip to the Londonium! Check it out: http://www.jiveparty.com/

So you're in a car accident. Who would you rather see: Tom Cruise, or a paramedic?!

Respect to Tom Cruise! I say it again, RESPECT! The dudes got beliefs, he sticks to them, he follows them.....religiously. By all accounts he's a pretty lucky guy (not just because he's a multi-millionaire actor with teeth built by a Roman road designer!), not everyone can say that about themselves. Most people I know treat their beliefs more the The Pirate Code. You know; more of a guideline than a rule! The unlucky one's are those that don't believe in anything, and so they wander around aimlessly trying to give their life meaning. Or, if they're really unlucky, they bump in to someone who tries to force their beliefs on to them!

I like Tom Cruise. I think he's an amazing actor, very intense. Born On The 4th July is a classic example of that, and I can't wait to see his new film Valkyrie (Dir: Bryan Singer). BUT, like a lot of people I suspect, I don't appreciate the Scientology hard sell. It's right up there with double glazing phone calls and people in the street asking you if you have a minute of your time to spend to write down your debit card details. Now I know this latest episode in the Bring Down Cruise campaign is a leaked video, not supposed to be viewed by anyone outside the Scientology community, but did they really think it would stay hidden? It's the same rule applied to celebrity sex tapes; if you don't want it to be seen don't make it! That said, maybe this is some kind of elaborate plan to get the word out and bring as much attension to it as possible, in which case the celebrity sex tape rule applies again. Look what it did for Paris Hilton!!!

(Don't be surprised if this gets taken off!!)

Tom, I respect your beliefs, I do. But please don't make random claims about being able to help people in car crashes, gun shot victims or anything like that. I've seen car crashes. I with someone who works in operating theatres on people who have come in on the verge of death from serious accidents, and while you could say that belief/luck/whatever you want to call it played a part in the patients future, it was sheer hard work by trained medical professionals that this person needed, and wanted.

.....I think someone should introduce Mr. Cruise to Britney Spears! Now THAT would be a headline!!!

JUSTICE!!!!!

HAAAAAAA HA HA HAAAAAA, yes! Late last year (man that sounds weird!) I had to make a complaint to Hoseasons about a particular trip to Wales that left both the missus and myself feeling less like we'd been on a relaxing holiday and more like on a work placement to Mars without any oxygen tanks (see Total Recall with Arnie if you want an idea!!)! Well I complained naturally (see previous posts) and low and behold I've just recieved a check covering the cost of the nights we didn't stay and some vouchers for any holiday we want to book through them in the future. I thought it was a really nice, professional gesture from them and I would recommed the company to anyone. Just don't go to Wales...

Making money and stupid people!

With the silly season over and done with, I was sat around thinking "Jee Wiz Albert..." (Albert is my pet bird glove puppet!!!......??) "I sure did get a whole load of silly stuff for Christmas!" Now don't get me wrong, I LOVE silly stuff. I got a Homer Simpson mug that talks when you pick it up and put it down. I got a TARDIS phone alert thing (it makes TARDIS noises every time your phone rings or you ring somone - yeah ok, it's starting to grate now!!) I got a Kermit the frog mug...so lots of mugs then! So there was them, and then there's the other silly things - the kind of silly things where you look at them and think "wowzers, whoever bought me this is really silly"!! So I went to the trusty Amazon, and I started selling things like "The 500 Facts You Didn't Know About Animals" book (silly!), the Complete Superman DVD Collection (very silly! It's not even complete, and doesn't have the Richard Donner cut of Supes 2!), the "Things To Inspire You On The Toilet" book (.....um.....)! What's even scarier is, people are buying them!! True they're also buying other DVD's and books and stuff which are cool but I don't want anymore. Still, people are buying my shit.....and for those FBI stalker types out there, no "shit" does not mean drugs, guns or any other illegal stuff!!!

And then in the front of my building there's a sign in the guest parking bays: "Authorised people only - Unauthorised People will be clamped!" Now, given that I live here I'd say I'm authorised. But no, I get home one afternoon having parked Charlie (the car.....WOWzers I'm sillt!!) in one of the guest bays informing me that the Car Park Comittee is deeply pissed off - I'm paraphrasing - with people using the guest spaces. It's taking up all the.....spaces. Tennents are only allowed to park there for 4 hours at a time, tennants caught parking there for long or any un-authorised cars will be clamped. Now I'm all for spaces being reserved for tennants and guests - no non-tennant rif raff thanks very much - but clamping people who live there and their guests. Surely that's a bit counter-productive??? If you clamp a vehicle it can't be moved, so the space is still taken up anyway! They should get tow-trucks in, have the offenders get their transport taken away! Yeah, I speak da trooth boyyee!!! Although if you're part of this comittee, don't you dare touch Charlie. He BITES!!!