There’s a reason why they say babies shouldn’t watch TV.
The Star must have sneaked a look over your shoulder at some point as today the Solnushka household is reenacting the endless pissing of the Huggies ad.
Without the stopping power of the nappies, that is.
Archive for August, 2008
On the Manneken Pis.
Posted in Advertising, Babies, Motherhood, tagged Huggies, Huggies advert on August 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
On lies and damn lies.
Posted in History, Morality, Patriotism, Politics, Russia, TV, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia, Journalism, Mikheil Saakashvili, Postmodernism, Robert Mugabe, the BBC, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on August 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
You have to confess to a certain ambivalence towards news journalists.*
One of the charges the postmodernists throw at historians of the old school is that they create the illusion of empiricism by the style they employ in their writing. No hint of a mention of ‘I think…’, an attempt to surpass the amount written in [...]
On Russia and Georgia.
Posted in Patriotism, Politics, Russia, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What she said.
On Solzhenitsyn.
Posted in Culture Shock, History, Literature, Morality, Patriotism, Politics, Religion, Russia, tagged Aleksander Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Solzhenitsyn, The Gulag Archipelago, Two Hundred Years Together on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Aleksandr Isayevich Solzhenitsyn died last week.
You thought the reactions to his death in the West were quite interesting.
Considering that people held in prison by repressive regimes the West disapproves of who subsequently spend a lot of time and energy denouncing the same are usually accorded irreproachable sainthood status, some of the commentators were surprisingly grudging.
For [...]
On the hair of the baby.
Posted in Babies, Family, Motherhood on August 9, 2008 | 3 Comments »
You realised the other day that the Star is going to be ginger.
You don’t know why you find this so odd.
Your Dad’s beard was a startling shade of orange before he went white.
Still. Ginger. Fancy that.
On the aging process.
Posted in Advertising, Communication, Culture Shock, TV, The Internet, tagged British Telecom, BT on August 9, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Never before have you felt so old.
There you are, watching the TV (again), when along comes the next installment of the BT ad.
This time the Bloke and his Woman are having an argument. On some kind of instant messaging service because he’s away on business. This being the source of the spat. His being away, [...]
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