She's gone! (No, not who you think)

Julie Burchill has taken Murdoch's shilling. Can I be the first to say Good Riddance? What I want to know is whether she kept the Guardian slot by bribery or blackmail. I suspect the latter, because she had it for an awfully long time and doesn't come from a rich family (or have any other visible means of support).

She'll fit in better at the Chunderer anyway. Of course, time was when it wouldn't have stooped to employing La B, but it's a long way down from where they were to where they are.

And in other news, something I saw reposted on ed.general today. For fans of the accursed Xena who recognise operetta when they see it: http://groups.google.co.uk/groups?q=Basileia+Makhetes&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=36AB2D83.77CFC845%40imrryr.demon.co.uk&rnum=1

Records. Dream.

I have at least eleven Cocteau Twins records.

So at least I didn't waste the Eighties completely.

Last night I had a very odd dream. Someone climbed onto a roof on Cockburn Street, possibly with the intent of lobbing herself off (it might have been duranorak, sleepycinderell, or some sort of weird Duranorak/Sleepycinderella hybrid. You know what dreams are like).

Various other people went up to dissuade her, and she went over the crown of the roof where I couldn't see her, but had obviously slipped. While I was trying to work out whether she'd fallen off the roof on the far side, a chimney stack that nisaba was leaning on toppled into the street, taking it with her.

In spite of falling four stories to the pavement in a shower of rubble, though, she just stood up and dusted herself off.

There was a runup to that, and some consequences, but I can't remember them any more.

I was up until silly o'clock last night sorting out records. All the vinyl's now ordered correctly by first letter. Ordering them correctly within each section shouldn't take too long, and I can do it gradually. It's been at least a couple of years since they've been that well sorted. I inevitably found a few oddities (Howard Jones? When did that happen?) and a couple of duplicates I was unaware of (although to be fair one of those was a Papa Brittle album with two entirely different sleeves).