Stuff that came my way today

A cool-hunting kid goes to LA and takes some photos. Happy people wearing colours and drawing pictures and having parties involving second-hand goods and teddy bears and the sunlight of Los Angeles. There is nothing not to like here.

The world’s most famous virgin. Not to be missed: the Ex Boyfriends page (HE HAS NEVER SLANDERED HER) and the Her Family section. Also not to be missed: the joy of navigating a website built in frames. It’s the smell of madeleines for those of us old/young enough to remember making our first websites in Geocities. Tumblr kids, you have no idea how wealthy your fingertips are.

M.I.A’s new video. Loving the green lights and the song.

Joss Stone’s old video. So not loving this that I am close to a coronary. The phrase “it beggars belief” just doesn’t even do the experience justice. Just press play and keep watching  - it starts bad and then it gets so, so much worse.

This didn’t happen on the internet but I’ve also just read Betjeman’s poem, Indoor Games Near Newbury, for the first time. It’s about children at a party who love each other. Has shades of Pulp’s Babies about it, only these kids are posh and have chauffeurs and choose their partners for a fox-trot, to “dance until it’s tea o’clock!” A sheer delight. My new masterplan for 2010 is to spend much of it dancing until it’s tea o’clock.

Dizzee Rascal once sent Jonathan Ross a text. It said “Yo bro. dis is Dizzee. Good 2 c ya again. Holla.”

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So the South African President, Jacob Zuma, just got married for a fifth time, and I have to admit I was “a bit funny” about polygamy until I saw the bride and her bridesmaids. Look at them! Look at her! Seriously fierce. I remember there were girls at my school who were well into being bridesmaids - some of them were even repeat offenders - but I never really saw the thrill in going down Tammy Girl to get dressed up as one of a matching set of peaches and then holding onto the back of a grown-up’s dress while she kissed a man. Which was just as well, since my family were not the sort of people who knew the sort of people who had weddings, and I was not the sort of child you wanted hanging off the back of your meringue, so no one ever asked. If Team Beyonce don’t hijack this look for the next video then a trick is missed. (Dear Mrs Zuma, you had the best bridesmaids of all time, of all time, etc etc)

So the South African President, Jacob Zuma, just got married for a fifth time, and I have to admit I was “a bit funny” about polygamy until I saw the bride and her bridesmaids. Look at them! Look at her! Seriously fierce. I remember there were girls at my school who were well into being bridesmaids - some of them were even repeat offenders - but I never really saw the thrill in going down Tammy Girl to get dressed up as one of a matching set of peaches and then holding onto the back of a grown-up’s dress while she kissed a man. Which was just as well, since my family were not the sort of people who knew the sort of people who had weddings, and I was not the sort of child you wanted hanging off the back of your meringue, so no one ever asked.

If Team Beyonce don’t hijack this look for the next video then a trick is missed. (Dear Mrs Zuma, you had the best bridesmaids of all time, of all time, etc etc)

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