Mundane Moments

Bit surprised about Sally Phillips. Always thought she'd be lovely.

Maybe she was just going through a rough time.
Mrs Rave - who was also Company Manager on that show - has just pointed out that Sally's Downs Syndrome son was about 1 year old at the time. I guess life was a bit of a struggle for her back then.

Given you seem to go to the cinema regularly that's a bit weird. You should watch it. Spoiler, the ship sinks.

Been working out human survival chances post apocalypse. Assuming everyone on earth is dead, we've got 14 humans in space.

Female:

The Chinese have let themselves down here, no women on their space trip, so no pure bred Chinese. The guys should be able to get involved later though.

Christina Koch. Koch by name and, for as long as she is fertile, Koch by nature. On the lunar mission. She's going to need to shag hard, hard, hard. Not sure how long they could survive in space, not even sure they have the means to avoid earth, but I'm guessing a space meet up with the ISS is off the cards. Potential three next generation members here, each with a different father providing some genetic diversity.

On the ISS, two chicks. Jessica Meir and Sophie Adenot. Sophie Adenot is 43, got some spunky years ahead. Could pop out several before menopause. Jessica Meir, however, 49 this year. She is a marine biologist, and space woman, so might be able to help out in the fertility clinic.

What I would then suggest is all return to earth once the next generation are early 20s, once radiation levels have subsided, and the Chinese guys can get to work on female members of the new generation adding more genetic diversity. As long as there are enough female members of the next generation, I think the future is looking prosperous.

All sounds a bit Moonraker to me. Are you Hugo Drax?

Who wants to do the re-entry joke?

Woke up this morning. Which is nice.*

Given my proximity to a major UK RAF base, I'm assuming that means the hellfire irradiated apocalypse hasn't happened yet.

*worse blues song ever.

I woke up in Swansea, so had to double check the apocalypse hadn't happened.

Easily one of the worst, if not the worst, Bond movie. It had moved beyond a piss take by that point.

Why do so many people write Nottingham Forrest ? Like even intelligent people I know (who don't follow football). 'Forest' is the normal way to spell the word. Why when it's football, do people go for two R's ?

I thought it was because they thought it annoyed Forest fans - see also Notts Forest

Maybe. But I've got friends who have no knowledge of football at all who write it.

Maybe they're fans of the musician who released 'Rock The Boat' in 1983.

Having worked on the radio and met many celebrities I have a pretty extensive list too. The so called nice celebrities were generally horrible and the difficult ones were lovely. Technically I didn't work with them, but spent hours interviewing people and hanging out. The nicest ones were Howard Stern (he is actually quite shy) and Brett Michaels of Poison (not shy at all), who seemed completely unphased when I told him that Poison wasn't really my bag. He also visited the radio station numerous times, always remembered my name and we even went bowling together as a group. Him and radio staff. Absolutely lovely fellow. Steven Tyler of Aerosmith is possibly the funniest man I have ever met because his story in the interview ended up in a 30 minute argument with Joe Perry about whether the story was true or not. It was also the easiest interview ever as I only asked one question and the rest was those two riffing and arguing. Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes was lovely to me which is odd as he had a punch up with his brother Rich just minutes earlier. (At the time they hated each other. AC/DC and Judas priest absolute gentleman. Rob halford very soft spoken... Dan Baird of the Georgia Satellites was a great hang. Might not be very well known but super friendly bloke and we went for beers after the gig as he has lots of funny Tom Petty stories... Also Frank Bruno. Don't ask how I ended up chatting to him but generally a very very lovely bloke....

I have also had a few horror shows. No-one would be surprised that Dave Mustaine of Megadeth was a sour puss but a positive sweetheart compare with Roger Waters who was promoting his Radio K.A.O.S. album at the time. He was still obsessed with Dave Gilmour at the time. Pete Townsend yelled at me when I was in his rehearsal studio space with Roger Daltrey and Eddie Vedder. Roger came outside and apologised to me. Mr. Townsend I have never seen friendly ever. Ironically I know a radio engineer who thinks he is the Bee's knees. Biggest disappointment was Scott Ian of Anthrax who was very serious which was weird because the rest of Anthrax were super fun bunch. Maybe Scott was having an off day. He didn't seem too keen to talk to me. Sebastian Bach was incredibly brattish and mardy when I was interviewing Skid Row but the rest of the band made fun of him so it was actually quite fun..

The three worst people I have ever met were Richard Marx the singer. (major knob), Lita Ford (major bitch. Seemed obsessed with Joan Jett).. and of course Yngwie Malmsteen who was such a twat to me his wife gave him shit and went out of her way to be nice to me. I think just to piss him off but she was lovely.

Actually I have a million stories... I miss my radio days..

Chicago: Former Star Fucker.