The UK prime minister and Slade’s ousted drummer will carry on, oblivious
>> There is a hilarious Marina Hyde column in the Guardian today about what a bunch of donkeys the prime minister’s new cabinet members are.
His “carer”, Dominic Cummings, gets special punishment.
>> In other parts of the Guardian (I subscribe to the Guardian Weekly magazine), I learned that the actor Kirk Douglas died at the age of 103 and that Slade drummer Don Powell was sacked in a “cold” email by guitarist Dave Hill, who was the one with the ridiculous bowl-head haircut.
What was most remarkable about this story was that I didn’t even know Slade still existed.
I’ve seen Noddy on the TV in shows such as ‘Grumpy Old Men’ and presumed that all the other band members had carved out similarly benign new careers, the way ex-popstars do – open a garden centre or join the board of lower-league football team, etc
But no, two of the four members ploughed on, flogging the dead horse to pathological nostalgists up and down the country.
I remember painting a picture of Don Powell in an art class when I was about 6.
I also remember being disappointed by it, not quite sure I’d got his nose right.
>> In one of the episodes of ‘The Split’ we watched last night, reference was made to a “booty call” one of the lawyers made to another one.
I had to look it up. Then my wife told me it is also the name of a song by Beyoncé Knowles.
That opened a can of worms, because in verifying that nugget of info, I discovered that several other artists have released songs with that title.
All Saints included, but they varied the spelling by using Bootie rather than Booty.
I still can’t work out what babies shoes have got to do with having casual, no-strings sex with someone you know.
>> Liverpool did that irritating thing of faffing around until a late goal can be found from somewhere.
Norwich man-marked very closely, so chances were scarce.
>> It’s probably in bad taste to remark how fetching Storm Dennis looks on a screen. Given the devastation it is wreaking across Britain.
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