School of Rock (2003)

Peep World (2011)

Fated . . . It's like something out of a Nora Ephron movie

That answer about the laundry? I could have written it myself. It's like we were meant to be together.

Just don't look at the answer to her final question.

Vote SSP in the forthcoming US Presidential election

You must understand that I'm only posting this video made on behalf of the SSP - the Sarah Silverman Party - because Marx and Coca Cola's JM was kind enough to bring it to my attention. Regular readers of the blog know that Sarah Silverman is someone I don't usually care for.

The Great Schlep from The Great Schlep on Vimeo.

Sarah Silverman says: 'Please donate to the war'

Via Roseanne's blog:

I'm still having difficulty breathing. Please give generously.

"I can't breathe . . . I can't breathe"

Via Bust magazine's email blast:

I was just thinking the other day that I'd love to know how to make a nice Red Leicester.

"Every time a wish comes true, an angel gets his cards."

Weekly Bulletin of The Socialist Party of Great Britain (55)

Dear Friends,

Welcome to the 55th of our weekly bulletins to keep you informed of changes at Socialist Party of Great Britain @ MySpace.

We now have 1307 friends!

Recent blogs:

Tomorrow's Enemies

Open prison

Meat, Money and Malnutrition

Quote for the week:

"Money has no motherland; financiers are without patriotism and without decency; their sole object is gain." Napoleon Bonaparte, 1815

Continuing luck with your MySpace adventures!

Robert and Piers

Socialist Party of Great Britain

I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (2007)

Seven Against Phoebes

Quick reprise of the life ambitions list. Not so much a mid-life crisis, as a mid-morning tea break:

Learn to drive. Only so it can afford me the opportunity to lean out of a car window and shout 'FUCK YOU, YOU HUMP' at the top of my voice. Then, and only then, will I be able to say that I'm a proper New Yorker.

Sarah Silverman throws herself at me. Still not happening. Maybe if she lifted the restraining order on me, that might help.

For someone other than myself to laugh at my Aufheben/Mike Leigh joke before I die. It doesn't help that the bastards have yet to release 'High Hopes' on DVD in the States. You can get a copy of 'Career Girls' in the States but you can't get hold of one of Mike Leigh's best ever films. You fucking kidding me?

Abolition of the Wages System. It might help if St Marks Bookshop stocked the Socialist Standard. I must get back to them on that. If they can stock Direct Action, they can stock the Socialist Standard. Who reads Direct Action in New York? Who reads Direct Action full stop?

Stop being so judgemental about anarchists that I meet on my travels. It can't be helped that 9/10 7/10 of them come across as smug, sanctimonious middle-class wankers. (Yep, I attended the NYC Anarchist Bookfair.) Want to cut off the American anarchist movement at the knees? Cut off funding for PhD programmes. It doesn't do me any favours anyway. I come across as the living personification of the SPGB's hostility clause, and I'll get an ulcer before they get any integrity.

Read another novel before the end of the year is out. No, not re-read Ian Rankin, Denise Mina or Gordon Legge, but to actually pick up a book I haven't read before and to get past the first thirty pages. Suggestions please.

For the blog to be linked to in a Guardian Sportsblog 'Joy of Six' post. Result. (Look under the sub-heading about Celtic snatching the title from Hearts in 85/86. The link is the mention of the Albert Kidd and Billy Connolly anecdote.) My cheeks are moist; my sitemeter is doing a work out and I'm embarrassed that individuals other than my immediate family, Reidski and someone in Mountain View, California has caught sight of my sawdust prose.

Now, when is Sarah Silverman back in New York again?

Sarah Silverman and Matt singing "I'm in a meaningful relationship with Matt Damon"

Not for the faint-hearted, but it's nice to see that Matt Damon has finally got another cutting edge gig since narrating the audio book of Howard Zinn's 'People's History of the United States'.