Hugh Laurie
@hughlaurie
Actor, musician, writer. Because the world needs more of those.
Terrific piece from @IanDunt on the creeping bossiness that threatens whatever it was we thought we stood for. tiny.cc/a36kzz.
My advice, for what it’s worth: try not to be distracted by the faintly discourteous, the mildly incompetent, the harmlessly obnoxious. Roll with the delayed trains, dropped litter and misused apostrophes. Save your powder for the truly malevolent creatures now stalking the land.
Someone - and I wish I could remember who - once said that it’s much easier to trick a person than to persuade them that they’ve been tricked.
Thank you all. Meta analysis indicates that air and vodka expand further and faster than ice contracts as it melts. To your good health.
Physicists, I beg you: I mix a martini in a shaker, with ice. The ice melts, the internal volume reduces (so I was told long ago), but then the top of the shaker pops off, as if from excess pressure. What gives?
Is there any way of giving to an organization without having to surrender your address, phone number, blood type, star sign etc?
The footage from the eastern seaboard is just horrific. American Red Cross is one immediate option, but perhaps you know of others?
If Ben Elton is offering his wares within your catchment area, I beg you to go. Partake. Laugh like a happy drain.
If you don’t speak Rugby, this will be baffling. If you do, you will recognise it as one of the greatest passages of play in the history of the game. Japan, offered repeated chances to tie with South Africa, risk it all in the final minutes. WC 2015 youtube.com/watch?v=RgxoGM…
I was lucky enough to spend some time with James Earl Jones. He was everything you might have hoped, and a fair bit more. Wise, kind, funny, impossibly handsome, with a voice that could have crumbled the walls of Jericho. It was such an honour.
I’m no judge - of anything at all - but I think Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise might be a masterpiece.
Herding sheep is surprisingly close to snooker. The ewe’s retreat describes an almost perfect Newtonian reaction to you, the cue ball - until she reaches the pocket, and suddenly skips sideways into the river.
M’collegaue has once again opened up a two year lead on the back straight. Many happy returns to the absolute best man @stephenfry
I managed to persuade someone today that the meandering, spidery varicose vein on my right knee is an abstract tattoo. I’m buzzing.
An immaculate set of 5 - the best I’ve seen - and they were taken by England! Crazy times. 🏴
Thank you for lovely birthday wishes. Definitely took the sting out of it.
Can you imagine being in the room? youtube.com/watch?v=fyAUKU…