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Irish Judge Stops Drink Drive Trial For Urine Steam Inhalation
When he is urinating, he is inhaling vapourised alcohol and there's always steam off it
How The Media Accepts Parpody As Fact
A FEW months back, Anorak receied a call from Tiger Aspect, a TV production company.
The excited researcher wanted to know the contact details of Barry Richards, 16, a pupil at the Wat Tyler comprehensive in Grays, and a leading member of the Essex Young Conservatives. You can read about him here.
Now Anorak’s freind in the US, 14, writes from the US about how one of her satirical works - the Urban Satchel - has been accepted as true by the mainstream press.
Much to my delight, an alert reader has informed me that the NY Edition of The Metro has used my Urban Satchel in a fluff article about women’s handbags.
Posted: 20th, September 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Beyond Parody, Media Bitch, Photojournalism | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Health And Safety Inspector Falls From Ladder
HEADLINE of the Day, in the Tabloid Telegraph: “Health and safety inspector falls off ladder.”
A health and safety inspector had to be rescued by firefighters after he fell from a ladder while he was carrying out a risk assessment.
Before we fail this under “Beyond Parody”, let’s investigate further.
Posted: 12th, September 2008 | In: Beyond Parody, Broadsheets, Strange But True | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Washington Post Calls For Tax On Information
DUSTY Horwitt writes for the Washington Post. No, not Viz magazine. Horwitt is no f***wit as he writes in a newspaper (and on the web) about there being too much information.
He begins his piece: “Everybody jokes about “TMI” these days.”
TM?
“Too much information.” BP – Beyond Parody.
As we say Horwitt is no F***witt. Unless…
Posted: 24th, August 2008 | In: Anorak In New York, Beyond Parody, Money | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Bonding Sessions At Oldham Council
SAYS Deputy leader of Oldham Council Jackie Stanton: “We expect Unity staff to share the same values and code of conduct as council colleagues and so are very concerned about these allegations.”
Two council contract staff have been suspended after they were seen having sex in an office. A crowd of 20 person gathered round to be appalled and outraged.
The venue? Why, the offices of Unity Partnership in Oldham town centre…
File under “Beyond Parody”…
Posted: 13th, August 2008 | In: Beyond Parody, Police Log, Politicians, Tabloids | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
If Britain Did Charity Balloon Releases
BLOW up the balloons. Release the balloons. Make the orphans in Bristol smile…
Spotter: Fiona
Posted: 28th, July 2008 | In: Anorak TV, Beyond Parody | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Mealy Mouths With Charlotte Hume
“IT all started with a drama over peas. A very, very small portion of whatever vegetable the rest of us were eating was placed nonchalantly by me on my seven-year-old son Freddie’s plate.”
We join the action in the Telegraph, and in slummy mummy Charlotte Hume’s kitchen diner. She’s written a book (available via, er, Telegraph books) about the A to Z of vegetables and how Freddie (F for flageolet) is now eating and learning all at once.
He’d look up at me and the bargaining would begin. I am used to him starting the bids low. “If I eat two peas, is that enough?”
Posted: 30th, June 2008 | In: Beyond Parody, Broadsheets, Food & Fat | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Labour Party To Field Terror Victim Against David Davis
DAVID Davis wants to make 42 days a big issue. And one Labour activist wonders:
Maybe instead of Labour fielding a candidate in Haltemprice & Howden we should find a Martin Bell type candidate - preferably a recently retired senior police officer, or a survivor or relative of a victim of a terrorist attack, to run under the following 5 word candidate description: “Independent - for detaining terrorism suspects”.
- Luck Akehurst Location: Labour Party activist since 1988 - firmly on the moderate wing of the party. National Secretary of Labour Students 1995-6.
File under beyond parody
Posted: 13th, June 2008 | In: Beyond Parody, Conservatives, Labour Party, Politicians, War On Terror | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
Beyond Parody: Camilla Long Invents Davinia Taylor
“KATE MOSS, SADIE, SIENNA And ME,” trails the front page of the Sunday Times.
The headline “ME” is a Sunday Times everyman, a nominal person who will place the three women in context and add historical perspective. She’s given the unlikely name Davinia Taylor, a moniker that blends the deliberately extraordinary with the plebeian
“Davinia Taylor: Secrets of the Primrose Hill set,” says the paper, in what proves to be skilful parody on modern life, and newspaper reporting.
“Davinia Taylor is at the heart of the group, which includes Sadie Frost and Kate Moss. She has never spoken, until now.”
A mute celebrity friend is surely what they all crave. No kiss and tells with a dumb person. But now Davinia is given a voice.
Davinia Taylor is in her downstairs loo. “That’s Kate and me just after we left Disneyland,” she says, pointing out photos. “And there she is in the country, washing the car with Lila. Oh, look, the Duch!” - the Duchess of York, on a night out with Princess Eugenie. Here is Davinia with her new baby, the now 11-month-old Grey, and her husband, David Gardner, the footballer turned agent and David Beckham’s best friend.
Were this not a clear parody, it would be beyond parody, and Anorak would hang up its coat and retire.
Then a snap of Jake Chapman’s daughter in a highchair, the word ‘F***’ artistically picked out in raisins in front of her. “She didn’t do that herself, obviously.”
Posted: 8th, June 2008 | In: Beyond Parody, Broadsheets, Celebrities, Kate Moss and Pete Doherty | Comment | Follow the Comments on our RSS feed:RSS 2.0
