GEEKGASM HAS BEEN ACHIEVED

Coming out of pub and in walks Simon Pegg.

See everyone go into geekgasm wiblle and then Emma and I decide to go back in just to tell him how much we love him (I think I said 'Um, sorry to bother you, but just wanted to say how much we love your work and thankyou for giving us so much joy'). Apparently him and Nick Frost were in there to celebrate finishing latest project. Nick Frost was outside but didn't see him.

:dies of geekgasm:

breath control *scary*

and this was what I was going to post.

Um. Regular readers may vaguely remember me noting stuff about how long singers hold notes for.

10 seconds is normally considered bloody long.
14 seconds is the 'showing off in competition' and is normally considered amazing. And often done for comedic effect where the other performers start looking at their watches.
17 seconds is the record I'd previously heard - JB, on his recording of one of the Beauty and the Beast songs 'If I can't love her'.

Was listening to Daniel Boys guesting on one of the Radio 2 Friday Night is Music Night thingies. Er.

20 FUCKING SECONDS.

Gethsemane. ...I'm sorry, does he have an oxygen tank surgically attached to his vocal chords?

:snicker: oh dear. Sometimes you forget just how non tech-savvy the general population is. One of the customer service lot's email's been cloned by the spambots, so I emailed IT and him so he could warn people he reguarly emails that his email's been cloned. Get email back from him going 'er, what?' so I had to go and explain it to him in words of one syllable. Bless.

Holding off parents with large stick since I haven't finished reading the latest Pratchett (ordered it from play.com, it didn't arrive til tuesday and then had some sewing jobs to do so been reading it in bits). I actually had to smack Dad's hands last night.

It is of the good, we love Moist, and there's, er, the problem that very few people in the country have - Terry will occasionally base characters on people he's met. Sometimes he asks them for permission because he loves their costume way too much, sometimes the con crowd will read it, and then pointedly look at specific people whose image is rather well known. (I'm safe, I've only dressed up as established characters) Constable Haddock is one of the former, who turned up as a Watchman and told people his character's name was Haddock. Possibly my only problem with this is that the book character doesn't grin nearly enough, but then we do only meet him in work mode. And then we have characters like Adora Belle Dearheart. random_c, what *are* your views on pink?