Really poor cameraphone photos of the Museum of Wigan Life’s Official launch on Thursday 1st July, posted at the request of an individual known only as “Mr Fuji”.
Official-looking blokes pose for promotional photos
More photos with the ‘totally awesome’ Mayor of Wigan
Not-so-fun fact: “MOWL” is apparently some sort of German Internet slang, at least according to Urban Dictionary. Well, you learn something new every day.
The plaque pre-unveiling
Erm, just a mangle. Yep.
Once again I apologise for the pants photography. If anyone wants to fund a better phone then be my guest. Address for correspondence:
Harry Yack,
Gullibility Road,
Notascam,
Lancashire
123 XYZ
Orchestrated Muppetry: A whole new ball game... and just in time for the World Cup, too
The transition period is over… Retro Yakking’s back, in the form of Orchestrated Muppetry.
I decided I liked the name of the previous post so much I’d give it a whole blog to itself. I suppose it’s more of a fitting name to be honest with you, Retro Yakking wasn’t always entirely accurate – whilst it did have some stuff dealing with older subjects, it wasn’t really the sole focus.
Orchestrated Muppetry is the natural evolution from RY, with all the usual stuff you’d expect from Harry Yack plus a new freedom of expression not possible at Today.com. Hey, you know how it is when you’re employed to do a job.
So is Retro Yakking dead? Not completely. You can still visit an archived version over at Blogdog, and by all means do. Don’t expect any more updates, though, because the times they are a-changing, and so is Harry Yack.
I walked into work the other morning only to find a load of blokes in suits who sat us down and explained how we would have to work for twice the number of hours for half the pay with a grand total of one week in holidays. Per decade.
They told us it’s the same everywhere else and nobody would even think about re-employing our sorry posteriors this side of Cheetham Hill. Which sucks just a bit.
The good news is that, for the next couple of months at least, we get free drinks in the canteen and can address customers with as many expletives as we like . Plus, we get to wear slippers and dressing gowns to make us look like Hugh Hefner without consequence or recrimination. Up to a point anyway.
Don’t you just love the Conservative-Liberal coalition?
A pointless little politics-related thought/mildly amusing quip there. Anyway, I’m here to tell you that for the time being I’m gonna publish all my Retro Yakking stuff here at Illarterate instead, mainly because I plan to wind that project down for good. Don’t worry, though, because I won’t just disappear from the face of the earth like last time. Or maybe I will, who knows?
I really should get that blogroll up and running again, plus there’s a whole bunch of housekeeping with regards to archiving old projects. I shall get round to that when I have the time and resources, but for now, console yourself in the fact I’m not rotting six feet under unlike certain street sweepers. Ciao for now.
I had almost completely forgotten about those poor quality videos I uploaded to YouTube for no other reason than embed them on my project blogs. Until this morning, when I was mucking about with the ‘Insight’ feature and discovered a large increase in views for a particular date: 20th April 2010.
Turns out Biased BBC used it to make a small satirical point about some politician or other at the beginning of last week. I shouldn’t really comment, as the closest I ever got to this genre was taking the mickey out of local MP Ian McCartney, and even that was tepid and rather childish.
Still, it reminded me about those pointless ‘Day in Your Life’ uploads I made. Incidentally, many have now been deleted because the fools over at YouTube cannot quite grasp the concept of a project video. Never mind.
