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El Kay is a huge fan of Terry Prattchet and his Discworld novels in particular, so it wasn’t really a surprise that she demanded we watch Sky’s adaptation of Going Postal as soon as she spotted an advert for it. Sadly, for one reason and another, we missed it when it was actually broadcast at the end of May, but we finally managed to catch up on it last night through the magic of the internet. The story follows the conman Moist Von Lipwig as he reluctantly takes on the office of Postmaster and attempts to restore the post office to her former glory. He is beset by the constant interference of the nasty Reacher Gilt (played by David Suchet on finely malevolent form) who operates “The Clacks” a long distance communication network based on a form of semaphore.
Having already seen the Discworld brought to life in earlier adaptations of Hogfather and The Colour of Magic I was looking forward to seeing what they could do with one of the newer books. I must admit that I haven’t read a lot of the books, and so I can’t really compare the TV version of Going Postal with the novel, but in my opinion the TV version was brilliant, and I assume the book itself is probably even better.
The show was well written, full of energetic action and excellent acting turns by David Suchet, Richard Coyle, Charles Dance and Clair Foy in the leads, as well as a host of bizarre secondary characters played by a who’s who of famous character actors. If you haven’t seen it, and you’re a fan of Sir Prattchet’s work then I suggest you get onto the internet and preorder the forthcoming DVD.
This turned up in my Amazon recommendations list today, and I nearly choked to death on my lunch when burst out laughing at it.
I came across a couple of funny sites that riff on the current advertising campaigns for David Cameron and the Tories that I thought I would share:
I came across this gem a while ago, but I’ve only just rediscovered the screen grab that I took this afternoon.
The Suffolk Punch was the featured article that day which usually means the pages are locked against unauthorised editing. I guess someone dropped the ball on that one.
This may be the single most terrifying thing that I’ve seen so far this year.
At times it causes me actual physical pain to realise that the world seems to revolve around the lowest common denominator. Every piece of so called news in the papers and on TV seems to be either over dramatised to sell papers or revolves around some halfwit celebrity that’s got their kit off, rocks off or mouthed off while in the public eye. Personally I don’t care how many people Tiger Woods has allegedly pumped, ditto for Ashley Cole and any other one trick pony. In my humble opinion they’re simply not worth the column inches that’s devoted to them. If you ask me their infidelities belong somewhere near the middle of the paper next to the reader’s offers section that sells electric back scratchers and three slice toasters.
I’m giving serious consideration to starting an e-petition at The Prime Ministers Office website to demand a change in the law that will force all tabloid newspapers to replace their name with ARSE FODDER in giant letters. I figure if papers like The Sun are going to print a load of half baked shite they should at least be forced to say so up front.
I’ve even made a mock up to show what it would look like:
I think I might start doing more weird MS Paint drawings…
Reports are coming in that Herr McD has abandoned his job on the grounds that the staff training resembled this infamous video…
