Well, it's the 4th issue of 2010 in the same shiny new format & with the same message ("Oh well....") as the first three - so at least it's consistent (-ish). The regular ThursdayAgain features are all here in this week's remarkably similarly styled issue - guaranteed to keep you amused for a brief yet sensual moment in your otherwise grim efforts to appear normal.
Included in issue 129 is a final look at some of the national pavilions under construction for the 2010 Shanghai Expo in China, as well as a collection of misspelled tattoos which might serve as a warning to some. In an effort to appear current, the news that the USA has abandoned its attempts to re-visit the moon has given birth to a ThursdayAgain collection of 50 year old photographs from the very beginning of visits to the "final frontier". The pictures of the X15 rocket plane programme seem almost quaint now but were the start of everything that followed.
The videos are from the usual variety of sources & this week & comprise the regular melange of high art & low humour. In particular "some grey bloke" has excelled himself this week in a rather unpleasant discourse on the nature of his sexual fantasies & the problems that age is bringing in reconciling them to the rest of his life.
In this issue I am certain that, as always, something will offend some readers (& some of you do try so hard....) so please use the contacts & complaints page to express your enormous, yet surely justified, displeasure & outrage at the continued abuse of good taste, the disdain for personal delicacy & the blasphemous ridicule of the immanent Will of whichever god you pray to.
Obviously you will become (if possible) an even more gorgeous, sophisticated & intelligent person who is infinitely more attractive to the opposite sex (or the same sex, juveniles, judges, Jesus, angels or animals if they're your thing) simply by reading issue 129 but if you want to complain (sigh), congratulate, contribute or just remind the universe that you are here - please use the contact & complaints page.
Thanks for the feedback & have a good week.
Tim Warren
Thursday, 4th February 2010