The Whispa is back

After a successful campaign at this years Glastonbury led by, of all people, Iggy and the Stooges the Whispa chocolate bar from cadburys has been released into the general confectionary population. Scrapped in 2003 but rare since 1999 the Whispa, a dense aerated chocolate bar, was killed off due to unpopularity. But now its back. For revenge.

I imagine it went something like this...
Dave the unemployed Whispa executive gets a call from Cadburys HQ. It's time for you to get back on the horse Dave, they say. Better sober up son. Two cadburys management types bust through his bedsit door and throw him in the cold shower. It's the festival crowd, Dave. They've demanded the Whispa. Within a week Dave's snorting cocoa powder off of Berty Bassett's thighs and riding around in his newly refurbished Delorean.

Anyway... they remain disgusting.
I should know. I just ate one.

Here's a picture of it.

William Gibson talks

So i went to a book talk. Which was a first. It was worth it though because it was William Gibson... my favorite all time author. I like to call him the Gibbernator. But i wouldn't do so to his face.

Anyway it was very interesting. He read chapter 2 from his new book Spook Country. This was interesting to hear him put his own stresses on the words.

Then he took questions from the audience which consisted of some of the most awkward and strange looking people in the history of... audiences. There were some decidedly po-mo questions about 'the sadness of the lone romantic character' that he wryly brushed off and some not so over-thought questions about micro celebrity and current emergent technologies.

I didn't have the balls to ask the question i had percolated over the past couple of days for fear of microphone failure or microphone non-failure. But hearing him answer other people's questions let me observe his character better than pretending to listen to a specific answer he gave me whilst sweating and wishing i had melted.

So there you go. I highly recommend geeking out at least once a year with something like this.

Shock! The Wire actually could be the greatest TV show ever made!

I've been wanting to catch The Wire for years. It's always been said to be the best TV show ever made. Now i think thats a pretty tough call. Im a big fan of the Sopranos in its dramatic style, content, and humour so i didn't think The Wire would be able to match it.

Im half way through serises one and it could possibly be the greatest TV show ever made. I'll have to reserve judgement until the end of the season but so far so good.

Check it out all you lovers of long arching plot lines, drama, violence, black humour, drugs, gangsters, and the crumbling social structure of the late 20th / early 21st century.

I still want to check out Deadwood as well. Just for Lovejoy swearing a lot.