A ho-hum run at Popular, with one or two exceptions.
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20 October 2009Hey Hey It’s International Incident Day
My first reaction on seeing this clip on Thursday was that horrible sinking feeling of knowing that I was going to have to explain to everyone around me that no, not all Australians are as blinkered as the ones who’ve said they don’t see a problem with it; the rest were crawling under a chair hoping it was a bad dream. Australian TV may once have been guilty of airing the BBC’s Black and White Minstrel Show, but anyone under the age of ninety knows why it’s been off our screens for thirty years.
After the preceding run of 1985 blandness at Popular, I didn’t expect I would feel so strongly about the Eurythmics.
Charitable misfires and jungle warfare at Popular.
September 2009