I'm just going to have a good bitch once again about the Nobserver

[moondog]

Apparently there is an article in the magazine about Tony Parsons' sex life.

It's put me off my dinner.
I can't even bring myself to open it.

Worse even thah Jay rayner's staggeringly self indulgnet witterings about 'my life in food' last week.

God,where did it all go so wrong?

i must pay for cat one day... let it be an enduring mystery.

OK, I am off to frighten the crap out of myself by googling hypertension symptoms again (I'm gonna die! We're ALLLLLL gonna DIIIIE.... Etc.)

have you tried co-diovan yet? it really works for me, and i've tried 'em all...

Woah ... Doonsbury makes total sense, but you do have to read it every day and care. If you read it in book form, it really does work.

I like Charlie Brooker, I like the Bad Science guy, too. I like most of the Guardian and the Observer, really.

It probably helps that a) any newspaper here (ok, any broadsheet) is going to be better than the papers I grew up with b) what other paper is there for me? I cannot read the Torygraph. The Independent looks nice but I've never found anything to read in it. I once accidentally ended up with a lot of the Times, and, ugh.

I miss Mil Millington, too. Also, there was a bloke with four kids who used to write for either Saturday Guardian or the Observer ... where did he go?

Would that be Phil Hogan -- he of the impossibly long opening sentence?

Yes, that would be him, you're right. I liked his column. I don't mind that American bloke, though, either.

Yes. I liked Phil Hogan. American bloke in G2? Yes, I quite like him, too, though it's beginning to pall. Amazing that he could pull off a very moving tribute to a colleague who had died a few weeks ago, in a column that is normally so whimsical.

Hmmm? I mean Tim Dowling. I only ever read the weekend papers.

nicholas lezard used to write a very funny idle dad column.

slack dad

lol at this thread. gave up weekend papers - never got to fucking read them anyway - but going back to david shrigley, he did have a funny joke which was on my fridge for ages...

title: WORLD SWEARING COMPETITION

[imagine two line drawings of long-haired stick figures]

[miserable looking one]

LOSING BLOODY FINALIST

[jubilant looking one, arms aloft in triumph]

CHAMPION OF THE FUCKING WORLD!!!!

I like Nick Lezard's paperback recommendations in the Saturday Guardian. Euan Ferguson had a multi-page spread about what a heartbreaker he was, and how he couldn't understand why he couldn't find true lurve. biggest pile of steaming poo ever.

come to think of it, probably the last time I read the Nobserver.

agree absolutely about Lowri Turner piece as well - probably the penultimate nail in my weekend paper reading coffin...

really hope that little baby never reads that article when she grows up. i really did feel so sad reading it.

NQC, I didn't mean Dowling. I always forget he is American. I think he is some sort of throwback to his ancestral Englishness.

No, I meant the man in the Weekend mag who appreas on the same page as Guy Browning's 'How to...flog a dead horse of an idea for a column years and years after the original concept wore thin'.

Oh, I like Guy Browning sometimes. I like All Ears (but then DS1 appeared in it once, so I have to - but I'm pretty sure I liked it before that). I dunno about that American, he frightens me. I mean, he's obviously just faking, anyway ...

Is Nicholas Lezard the one who looks frighteningly thin in his pics? There's one who's very pencil-necked, and while I have nothing against scrawny men generally, his picture does frighten me ...

Oh, and I finally read yesterday's paper, today, and the Magazine did seem much thinner than normal, with no actual content in it ... but Euan Ferguson appears to be gone! No mention of him at all! I don't like the redesign much, too fluff ... but Euan Ferguson appears to be gone! He really was my least favourite part of the whole paper, tbh ...

Tony Parsons did seem alarmingly proud of his body, I fear nude pictures of him in the Observer may be the next step ...

Eww, ewww, ewwww, Tony Parsons and the idea of him having sex!!

Went off him many years ago when he was blarting on about how 'oriental' (his phrase not mine) women were so much better than western women .

I like Lucy Mangan. I liked Zoe W until she became the first person ever to have a baby, and even now she occasionally makes me laugh. Doonesbury is brilliant, I love it only slightly less than I love Steve Bell (and he should take less holidays). Kira Cochrane and her 'I'm not dieting, honest' column annoys the crap out of me, and so does that 'explain your outfit' thing they have on a Monday. Otherwise it's the teenager thing at the weekend (purely for sucked-in breath judgey time at the woman's feebleness) and the quiz in the mag. Armando Iuannuci and Barbara Ellen's columns are the only thing I read in the Obs, tbh.