<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xml:lang="en"><title>Latest entries from dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com</title><rights>Copyright 2009 dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com</rights><subtitle></subtitle><author><name></name></author><updated>2009-10-27T13:46:00Z</updated><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/"/><link rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/index.rss"/><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2009:1</id><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2009-06-26:links.412175241</id><title>HE GOT ENOUGH. HE STOPPED.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/he_got_enough_he_stopped.htm"><![CDATA[&nbsp;&nbsp;I&#39;ve a lot to say about the life and death of Michael Jackson but will wait for the results of the autopsy before I start writing&nbsp;it.For the time being, enjoy this clip of his last &quot;performance&quot; from the 2006 World Musi]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/he_got_enough_he_stopped.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2009-06-26T11:37:00Z</updated><published>2009-06-26T11:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2009-03-28:links.412160715</id><title>WHAT I DID ON MY HOLIDAYS</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/what_i_did_on_my_holidays.htm"><![CDATA[Greetings, everyone.&nbsp; I&#39;m back - and hopefully this time to stay.Contrary to some people&rsquo;s hopes and wishes, I am still alive - but have just&nbsp;been busy trying to find work, doing the odd bit of freelancing, arguing with the DWP fo]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/what_i_did_on_my_holidays.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2009-03-28T10:55:00Z</updated><published>2009-03-28T10:55:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2009-01-14:links.412148240</id><title>HERE&apos;S SOMETHING YOU&apos;LL NEVER F...FF...FFF...FORGET, BABY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/heres_something_youll_never_ffffffforget_baby.htm"><![CDATA[Tonight on telly:BBC19pmThe Secret Life of ElephantsFirst in a series revealing the emotional and dramatic lives of elephants in Kenya&#39;s Samburu reserve.C410pmCould You Eat an Elephant?Chefs Fergus Henderson and Jeremy Lee, embark on an epic culi]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/heres_something_youll_never_ffffffforget_baby.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2009-01-14T13:13:00Z</updated><published>2009-01-14T13:13:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-11-16:links.412139349</id><title>SOMETHING ANORAKY IN LIEU OF A PROPER POST</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/something_anoraky_in_lieu_of_a_proper_post.htm"><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s that time of year again - the time of year when I look at my music listening habits&hellip;or, should I say, the music listening habits that my three-year-old 60GB iPod wants me to have, the fiendish little thing.I&rsquo;ve been at home fo]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/something_anoraky_in_lieu_of_a_proper_post.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-11-16T15:20:00Z</updated><published>2008-11-16T15:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-10-25:links.412135472</id><title>WHY ITUNES SUPPORT IS FULL OF S**T (CENSORED IN CASE ANY HIGHLY STRUNG ITUNES MUSIC STORE SUPPORT STAFF WHO ARE SCARED OF SWEAR WORDS ACTUALLY READ THIS)</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/why_itunes_support_is_full_of_st_censored_in_case_any_hig.htm"><![CDATA[The news this morning that the UK iTunes Music Store has been censoring song titles came as no surprise to me.&nbsp; I first noted this a fortnight ago whilst checking Comedy 365&rsquo;s relative position to other podcasts and chose to raise the issu]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/why_itunes_support_is_full_of_st_censored_in_case_any_hig.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-10-25T12:32:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-25T12:32:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-10-13:links.412133281</id><title>HELLO MUM #3</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_3.htm"><![CDATA[Another improperly uncropped paparazzo shot of a woman stepping into actress Elizabeth Berkeley&#39;s photo opportunity&nbsp;looking like she&#39;d wished she&#39;d worn some dark glasses and put on a bit of slap for that true celeb look.&nbsp; One o]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_3.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-10-13T10:50:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-13T10:50:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-10-10:links.412132855</id><title>LOOKS FAMILIAR...</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/looks_familiar.htm"><![CDATA[I think it&rsquo;s fair to say that never before have I had cause to compare Norman Tebbit to Lily Savage, but that&rsquo;s exactly what happened as a result of my popping into a local book shop yesterday.First off, here&rsquo;s a famous quote from T]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/looks_familiar.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-10-10T09:21:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-10T09:21:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-10-08:links.412132419</id><title>ON TELEVISION AT THIS VERY MOMENT</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/on_television_at_this_very_moment.htm"><![CDATA[It&rsquo;s Serendipity Hour&hellip;UKTV HISTORY: Infamous AssassinationsCHANNEL 4+1: Just Shoot Me&nbsp;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/on_television_at_this_very_moment.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-10-08T08:26:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-08T08:26:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-10-06:links.412132044</id><title>WHAT&apos;S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE #3</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_3.htm"><![CDATA[I cannot believe that OFCOM considers the British public to be&nbsp;so stupid that&nbsp;they have to be told that the sight of a carrot morphing into a chicken leg is a dramatization.&nbsp; The offending moment is ten seconds in, for those of you who]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_3.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-10-06T15:19:00Z</updated><published>2008-10-06T15:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-09-05:links.412126750</id><title>I WENT TO EDINBURGH BUT ALL I GOT WAS THIS LOUSY CASE OF TENDONITIS AND FIVE YEARS OFF THE LIFE OF MY LIVER</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/i_went_to_edinburgh_but_all_i_got_was_this_lousy_case_of_ten.htm"><![CDATA[OK, so shoot me.I had planned to be so organized with my dispatches from this year&rsquo;s Edinburgh Fringe.&nbsp; I know I promised previews and daily reports, but I truly have no idea where the time went.&nbsp; Oh, and I accidentally overwrote the]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/i_went_to_edinburgh_but_all_i_got_was_this_lousy_case_of_ten.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-09-05T11:03:00Z</updated><published>2008-09-05T11:03:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-08-02:links.412119326</id><title>PUTTING THE REEK INTO AULD REEKIE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/putting_the_reek_into_auld_reekie.htm"><![CDATA[Long-suffering readers will probably be wondering why I&rsquo;ve not published my annual guide to shows worth seeing (or, in a few cases, probably worth avoiding) at the Edinburgh Fringe.&nbsp; That&rsquo;s because &ndash; unlike other years &ndash;]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/putting_the_reek_into_auld_reekie.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-08-02T09:22:00Z</updated><published>2008-08-02T09:22:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-20:links.412116935</id><title>HELLO, MUM #2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_2.htm"><![CDATA[Our second &ldquo;oops, I&rsquo;ve just found myself encroaching on a celebrity photoshoot&rdquo; picture is of Mischa Barton loading or unloading her bags (or rather watching her driver load or unload them) at an airport somewhere (probably Los Ange]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-20T17:31:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-20T17:31:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-17:links.412116501</id><title>WHERE&apos;S THE SWARM WHEN YOU NEED IT?</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/wheres_the_swarm_when_you_need_it.htm"><![CDATA[Last night, as I failed to recover from a third cluster headache in as many days, I curled up on the sofa and happened to catch five&rsquo;s Greatest Ever Disaster Movies, which I missed on its original screening, probably because I was still able to]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/wheres_the_swarm_when_you_need_it.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-17T17:42:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-17T17:42:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-14:links.412115944</id><title>SMOKEAROCKACRACKADAY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/smokearockacrackaday.htm"><![CDATA[Tetra Pak heir Hans Rausing and his wife Eva have been charged with possession of drugs.The charge stems from an incident in April when Mrs Rausing is alleged to have tried smuggling Class A and Class C narcotics into the American embassy.It is rumou]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/smokearockacrackaday.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-14T23:19:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-14T23:19:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-13:links.412115661</id><title>HELLO, MUM #1</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_1.htm"><![CDATA[I have a confession to make: during my recent sabbatical from this blog, I developed an unhealthy interest in photographs of celebrities, largely taken by the paparazzi.I&rsquo;ve never quite been able to make up my mind as to which side of the papar]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/hello_mum_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-13T14:37:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-13T14:37:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-11:links.412115441</id><title>BOB SMITH R.I.P.</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bob_smith_rip.htm"><![CDATA[It was with great sadness that I received news of the death last Wednesday of Bob Smith, the manager I worked under at RTM Radio (formerly Radio Thamesmead), the community radio station that became my alma mater by sheer virtue of the fact that I spe]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bob_smith_rip.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-11T23:20:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-11T23:20:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-09:links.412114907</id><title>JOB OFFER OF THE WEEK #1</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/job_offer_of_the_week_1.htm"><![CDATA[Hi!&nbsp; We&rsquo;re an award-winning television production company in Camden, which means we&rsquo;re really funky and down with the kids.&nbsp; We&#39;re so street that we virtually live in the kerb outside Koko.&nbsp; Kerr-aaazy!We, like, so need]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/job_offer_of_the_week_1.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-09T14:18:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-09T14:18:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-07-03:links.412113746</id><title>BRUISES HEAL ON THEIR OWN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bruises_heal_on_their_own.htm"><![CDATA[The news that Amy Winehouse elbowed some bloke in the head towards the end of her Glastonbury set on Saturday night didn&rsquo;t come as too much of a surprise to me.&nbsp; When you&rsquo;ve been in and out of rehab as much as our Amy, the &ldquo;inv]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/bruises_heal_on_their_own.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-07-03T00:47:00Z</updated><published>2008-07-03T00:47:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-29:links.412113145</id><title>TOMORROW&apos;S SPORTS PAGES TONIGHT</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/tomorrows_sports_pages_tonight.htm"><![CDATA[1964 European Championship winners: Spain1966 World Cup winners: EnglandEuro 2008 winners: Spain2010 World Cup winners: ..?Well..?Could&nbsp;that be some kind of an omen? No, not that kind of omen.&copy; The Sun, The Mirror, The Times, The Telegraph]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/tomorrows_sports_pages_tonight.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-29T21:01:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-29T21:01:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-27:links.412112836</id><title>WHAT&apos;S WRONG WITH THIS PICTURE #2</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_2.htm"><![CDATA[&ldquo;I tend to be in Australia for about three months of the year, which can be a problem if I&rsquo;m the middle of a series like The Sopranos, so what I tend to do is wait a few months and just buy every single episode on DVD.&nbsp; Frankly, if I]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/whats_wrong_with_this_picture_2.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-27T22:16:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-27T22:16:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-21:links.412111590</id><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-THREE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentythree.htm"><![CDATA[If you&rsquo;ve been brave enough to read all 23 of these instalments, then you deserve a medal, let alone a thank you.&nbsp; But my sincerest thanks is all I can afford at the moment, so consider yourself thanked.&nbsp; I am only too aware that, at]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentythree.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-21T14:11:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-21T14:11:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-19:links.412111133</id><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-TWO</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentytwo.htm"><![CDATA[In 2005, the newly-installed BBC Head of Radio Entertainment asked his comedy producers about new writers coming through the system at the time, he himself having been through that system back in the early 90s when it was still in perfect working ord]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentytwo.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-19T12:24:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-19T12:24:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-17:links.412110657</id><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY-ONE</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentyone.htm"><![CDATA[My submissions to BBC Comedy competitions started with the most appalling radio sketch show, submitted at the age of 14 or 15.&nbsp; It was so bad that, when I&nbsp;discovered the script lying around&nbsp;some years later, I immediately&nbsp;burnt it]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twentyone.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-17T13:43:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-17T13:43:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-16:links.412110370</id><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART TWENTY</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twenty.htm"><![CDATA[My dealings with BBC HR had fizzled out by the end of February.&nbsp; Although the idea of applying for another staff post in the Corporation continued to make my blood pressure rise to a dangerous level, my strong stance of never wanting to send in]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_twenty.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-16T09:10:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-16T09:10:00Z</published></entry><entry><id>tag:dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com,2008-06-15:links.412110178</id><title>THE GREATEST STORY EVER TOLD, PART NINETEEN</title><content type="html" xml:lang="en" xml:base="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nineteen.htm"><![CDATA[At the end of February, I notched up my 100th job application since being dismissed 13 months earlier.The first 50 applications have already been well documented in a post from the end of last June, when the last thing I expected was for the count to]]></content><link rel="alternate" type="text/html" href="http://dogsmustbecarried.blog-city.com/the_greatest_story_ever_told_part_nineteen.htm"/><dc:creator>Dogs Must Be Carried</dc:creator><author><name>Dogs Must Be Carried</name></author><updated>2008-06-15T09:24:00Z</updated><published>2008-06-15T09:24:00Z</published></entry></feed>