It's another snippets post, dear reader...
- You couldn't pay me to go there news: Glastonbury Festival 2025 - the 55th anniversary event - opened its doors yesterday. As one might imagine, the queues appear to resemble the Seventh Gate of Hell - let alone the prospect of camping for five days in a muddy field with all that racket going on!
- Brainbox news: A stash of academic papers by mathematician and gay figurehead Alan Turing - that were rescued from being thrown away in a house clearance - sold for £465,400 at auction!
- Queeny goings-on news: New plans for a memorial to HM The Queen in Green Park have been unveiled by design contest winner Lord Norman Foster + Partners. The Duke of Edinburgh is also to be honoured with a statue as part of the memorial - looking bored and grumpy, no doubt.
- Awww news: A pair of young brown bears escaped from their enclosure at Wildwood Trust's site in Ottery St Mary in Devon - and promptly headed straight for the food store, where they ate a week's worth of honey. Then went back to bed. Typical teenagers.
- Papa Don't Preach news: Madonna has found out she is related to the Pope(!!), and tweeted: "Would it be possible to meet up one day to discuss some important matters? I’ve been excommunicated three times. It doesn’t seem fair. Sincerely, Madonna.”
- And finally: There are plans afoot to open a gay bar at Chicago O'Hare airport! I wonder if their punters will be restricted to 100ml or less of fluids?
We know a song about that, don't we?
And the weather? Warm and muggy, thanks - and another "heatwave" on the way for the weekend, apparently.
STOP PRESS - [20:00] Nuclear Wintour news:
Queen-of-fucking-everything Dame Anna Wintour has made the shock announcement she is quitting her role as editor-in-chief at American Vogue!
I feel the exact same about Glastonbury. Imagine living nearby, it must be torture.
ReplyDeleteThe bears were funny! And I was surprised about Dame Wintour - she's been a fashion constant all my life.
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I was very surprised there were such things as "neighbours" around there - it looks like the middle of nowhere to me 😎
DeleteAs for La Wintour, I very much doubt she will be keeping her opinions to herself in her new role as Vogue's "global editorial director"... Jx
Nope, you would not catch me at Glastonbury.
ReplyDeleteThe very thought fills me with horror. Three-star minimum, proper bed, proper shower, proper toilet - and walls - for me, every time! Jx
DeleteAt this time of year, I'm just glad that Glastonbury is all the way over there (waves in a vague south-westerly direction) and I'm all the way over here!
ReplyDeleteI wonder, are all the gays coming to, or escaping from Chicago?
You may be the other side of the country from Glastonbury, but Latitude Festival is just down the coast from you...
DeleteAs for the airport gays, it would probably be the old, old story - "passing trade" 😮 Jx
OMG I can't imagine the horror of attending Glastonbury
ReplyDeleteTents, mud, queuing for chemical toilets, drug-fucked middle-class vegans, and for what? Rod Stewart, Neil-bloody-Young, and hundreds of acts you've never heard of... Hell. Jx
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