Nixta Sinks

The first episode of the new Mighty Boosh series is available now here on the BBC website (presumably only for Brits). Also available via TheBox.bz, though membership is required - I just set my homepage to their sign-up page for 10 minutes and got an account - it's not hard at all.

Labels: Mighty Boosh

The Harrisons, Clockwise from top-left: Tony, Rufus, Dani and me

I've long maintained that everyone needs their own Tony Harrison (see my earlier post for a video introduction or click here if you're too lazy). I was first sent mine by the elusive disconducive TSF (you can see it above). Although only the original Tony Harrison comes with a papoose, it's clear that everyone else ought to at least see what they'll look like as TH.

I must thank Doc Vagpoker for my introduction to The Mighty Boosh. He called me up one evening allafluster to alert me to my doppleganger being on TV. I switched over to see Noel Fielding as a Goth with a gorilla and thought little more of it, switching back to Boobarella Smackdown. Some two weeks later I happened to see the same Mighty Boosh episode again and settled down to watch the whole thing. There's so much churlish childish crap on TV these days that I'd fallen into the trap first time around of lumping this in with all of that, but as I watched it rapidly became clear that this was structured, considered, and above all entirely justified and immersive.

But I don't look anything like Vince Noir, especially now that I've grown a beard. Actually, that's a big part of *why* I grew a beard, but that's another story.

Hurry up and make more episodes already.

Labels: Mighty Boosh, Tony Harrison

Watch out! They're using science on us!

This brief spout of drivel at NPR (via, of all people) talks about defining the height of things as being closer to the moon than above sea level. Fair enough, and interesting, unless you get it all utterly wrong...

I haven't had a chance to think much about it, but the argument is full of such arbitrary nonsense as would shame a thirteen year-old student flicking elastic bands and bogeys around a physics lab.

Therefore people in Ecuador, Kenya, Tanzania and Indonesia are all a bit closer to the moon (not much, only about 13 miles closer) than people standing at the North and South poles.

Allow me to elucidate: For example, what do they mean by "closer to the moon" and "closer to outer space"? I thought the moon followed a largely equatorialish orbit (i.e. it doesn't pass over the nasty cold poles by any stretch, preferring to race around the hot equatorial middle of the earth - mmmm toasted cheese). Given that, and the diameter of the earth of about 7,900 miles, a tiny bit of imagination (imagine a nearly spherical sphere), I fail to see how the poles can be 13 miles further away from the moon than the equator.

In terms NPR *might* understand.

I should have known when they got "sphere" confused with "circle" (interesting, but largely irrelevant). Let's hope no impressionable kids or NASA engineers read or heard that "report" - it could cause untold damage to future generations of English-speaking spacefools.

Until now, I thought only the moon was an alabaster retard

Labels: Mighty Boosh, Moon, NPR