Playmobil Founder Hans Beck RIP

The Father of Playmobil, Hans Beck, has died aged 79 following a serious illness. Playmobil was very much secondary to Lego round ours, but it is a worldwide phenomenon, having exported 2.2 billion figures to 70 countries worldwide.

This also gives me an excuse to post this excellent Michael Jackson Playmobil figure.



More quality adaptations of Playmobil here.

Celebrity Stalking - Sharon Horgan

For various reasons, I'm often accused of 'stalking' celebrities. Not because I do, mind, but because I walk around with my head up and have a knack for remembering faces I've seen on TV or in the media in general. And I've spent much of my time on Twitter being amused by the musings of the various celebrities and fake celebrities on there.

A strange thing just happened to me. I'd been thinking of referencing every time I see a famous face and posting a little something about them. I created a rule for myself that I've yet to have to implement, whereby if I see the same celebrity three times, I have to speak to them. Watch out Cheeky Girls and Eddie Izzard, is all I'm saying.

Sharon Horgan (centre) - I'm not stalking her

Anyway I've also been meaning to get into the comedy Pulling, about which I've heard great things. There was an ad last night for the series starting on Dave 'on Tuesday at 9:30'. Note to Dave, if you show an ad on a Monday, people can reasonably assume that, by Tuesday, you mean tomorrow. They don't, they mean next Tuesday.

Anyway, the reason this links is because the woman in the ad was just unloading a child from a car near my office. Sharon Horgan her name is, apparently (I did a small amount of research) and she's Irish and very funny. According to Wikipedia, she was one of the writers on the excellent Monkey Dust.

I'm using this as a flimsy excuse to post the first clip I found on You Tube of Pulling, in lieu of the recent slacking off in the Four O'Clock Funny.



Incidentally, I'm probably going to bin off the Four O'Clock Funny unless anyone is particularly attached to it, and focus on more ad hoc posting in the hope it will discourage laziness.

Funky Stuff - Breaktime

This is awesome - Breaktime by Gangpol & Mit.

If these guys don't get commissioned to make an ad or a music video soon then something is sorely wrong with the world.

I'll be posting up some of their other stuff in the coming days.


Breaktime from Gangpol & Mit on Vimeo.

The Most Amazing 'Talent' Display in a Beauty Pageant. Ever.

Here's Miss Aritao (it's in the Philippines apparently), walking along, balancing some strange tower thing on your head. Quite good, but not amazing. Hang on, what's she doing with that chicken?

It snowed round our gaff

Not big news to a lot of the world, but it brought London to a halt.