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Live-Blogging That Diamond Jubilee Concert Thing

June 4, 2012 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

It hasn’t started yet but the excitement is building like panther-sex. I’ve got the fucking tennis on here, because everyone on the BBC is talking too quickly and being excited like fucking Scouts on too much sugar. I’ve got my mother moaning and twittering like a fucking parakeet about everything, but somehow I want to be here talking about this concert thing. I’m working on her laptop in the lounge, and because today is a holiday here, I’ve done three washings and hung them out because it’s breezy but sunny. Where was I? Yes. The concert. I’m live-blogging it.

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Bin Laden Dead – You Win, America!

May 1, 2011 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

Well, the wicked witch of TERRISM has finally popped his clogs. He’s pushing up the daisies. He’s a sanctuary for worms. He isn’t pining for the fjords, he’s dead, mate, gone, extant, he’s shuffled off the mortal, he’s buggered off, he’s as dead as the proverbial my friend, he’s never-more, he’s knackered, he’s croaked it.

Yep – Osama Bin Laden is TEH DEADS!!!!

Well done, America! YOU WIN!!!!!

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Live-Blogging The Royal Wedding

April 29, 2011 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

Well, it’s 7am and I’m awake because I haven’t been to bed, because of the excitement, you see. Kate and William are getting hitched today, so I might as well write about it, because I’ll guess it’ll form some sort of snapshot for us all to look back upon and giggle. I’m watching it on the BBC, which is a blessing, because I’ve seen the promo from E! or whatever they’re called, and it made every atom in my being vibrate with laughter.

Anyway – let’s go.

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Live-Blogging A Possible Nuclear Disaster

March 12, 2011 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of










Shall we watch? Shall we? Want to keep an eye on this? I’m dropping into other media and downloading Brian De Palma movies but I keep coming back to footage of Fukushima in Japan every ten minutes. I’m interested in nuclear power, and this interests me. There’s also the possibility of watching a fresh mushroom cloud on television.

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Disaster In Japan – Live Blog

March 11, 2011 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of








What I’m seeing and hearing coming out of Japan is Michael Bay-esque in proportions. Indeed – imagine if Michael Bay and Roland Emmerich got together and decided to destroy part of Japan – that’s what I’m seeing. The quake was 8.9 in magnitude, and was the most powerful to ever hit. Currently – 44 dead. Everybody’s trying to get home and the seismic wave is still traveling The Pacific as I type.











As it moves across the land, gas pipes begin to fracture.









Those are cars and people carriers being tossed about like toys.









Wreckage piles up underneath a bridge.







A boat is caught in a whirlpool.

We will continue to closely monitor tsunamis around Japan and the Pacific going forward and we are asking all our citizens in the affected region to listen to their state and local officials.



Tweets are coming in about the tsunami hitting Hawaii.

Video feed from The Washington Post.


Live-Blogging The 2011 Golden Globes

January 16, 2011 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

Hello and welcome to yet another live-blog of an awards ceremony. This one is the most prestigious of the season – The Golden Globes. It’s dark in Scotland and windy, and I’m still annoyed at theawl having a go at Scotch eggs. The woman on the AP feed on Livestream sounds like Minnie Fucking Mouse on helium and PCP. Anyway – everyone arriving looks so shiny and annoying, so I’m going to make something to eat as it’s going to be a long 14 hours.

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Live-Blogging The Future From The Future

December 31, 2010 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of, The Future Is Here

Hello, I am VirusWithShoes, and I shall be live-blogging the future for you, behind-timers. Because I am at least 3000 miles ahead of you in time, I shall report forward to you what is happening live in 2011. You don’t have to be Jewish – anyone can join in! Ask me cryptic questions only the future – and I – hold. Will mankind survive the first hours of 2011? What new advances will be made during the five to eight hours it will take for 2011 to reach you? Will you need extra blankets? Have the dead started to walk in 2011? Do people still use money?

I will have all the secrets.

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Live-Blogging The Rally To Restore Sanity And/Or Fear

October 30, 2010 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

Hello there. It’s sunny here in Scotland, so obviously something is wrong. What is obviously wrong is that I’m not in Washington D.C. with thousands of other people hoping to catch a glimpse of Stephen Colbert from half a mile away while slowly freezing to death and needing the toilet then peeing in a discarded plastic bottle in the hope that no-one catches me doing so on their cell-phone and then uploads the footage to PeeTube, your number one resource for online full-bladder action. Because of both these urine-centered fears and extreme distance, I have to watch it on C-Span like a dry, petulant robot.

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Live-Blogging The England vs USA World Cup Match

June 12, 2010 in Live-Blogging In The Name Of

America – land of the brave, home of the free. England – land of the toff, home of the colonialist wankers. Two nations separated only by water and cheese consumption per capita, joined together in a “special relationship” by the after-effects of unchecked capitalism. One of these nations start wars for oil, the other one likes to shit oil in your ocean and all over your birds. Welcome to the Wordsmoker England vs USA World Cup live-blog. Have I mentioned yet about how England should be crushed beyond all recognition? I haven’t? Okay.

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