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<title>My RSS Feed</title><link>http://christopherstevens.info/index.html</link><description>New blog posts</description><dc:language>en</dc:language><language>en</language><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><dc:rights>Copyright 2012&#x2c; Christopher Stevens</dc:rights><dc:date>2012-03-22T22:25:24+00:00</dc:date><admin:generatorAgent rdf:resource="http://www.realmacsoftware.com/" />
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<lastBuildDate>Fri, 9 Mar 2012 20:48:17 +0000</lastBuildDate><item><title>Got any breadcrumbs?</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Comedy</category><dc:date>2012-03-22T22:25:24+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/got-any-breadcrumbs.html#unique-entry-id-11</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/got-any-breadcrumbs.html#unique-entry-id-11</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[After my blog post on old jokes, and my recent features in the Daily Mail on Dame Edna Everage and the appeal of jokes about geriatrics, anyone might think I know lots of good gags. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Old Jokes</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Comedy</category><dc:date>2012-03-21T14:06:14+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/old-jokes-in-the-daily-mail.html#unique-entry-id-10</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/old-jokes-in-the-daily-mail.html#unique-entry-id-10</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[And on his radio show Stop Messin' About, he and Carry On co-star Joan Sims played two pensioners, Meg and Tone, having a furtive affair: "If you can't come to the boil after 59 years, either your gas has gone out or you've got fur in your kettle."
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Privileged reporting</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Comedy</category><dc:date>2012-03-20T10:10:11+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/richard-ingrams-interview.html#unique-entry-id-9</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/richard-ingrams-interview.html#unique-entry-id-9</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[When he used to write a column for the Observer, I had occasionally spoken to him about his copy, just to confirm the headlines or the cuts &ndash; and at an Oldie Luncheon last November at Simpson's In The Strand where I was speaking, we exchanged a few words (I said I was nervous, and he said everybody got nervous and I wasn't to be so damn silly).
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Lost and found and lost and...</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Masters of Sitcom</category><dc:date>2012-03-19T19:37:16+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/the-day-off-lost-and-found.html#unique-entry-id-8</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/the-day-off-lost-and-found.html#unique-entry-id-8</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[A few days after my Galton & Simpson anthology, The Masters Of Sitcom, was published last autumn, Ray and Alan's manager Tessa Le Bars called to ask where the script had got to &ndash; there was talk of a reading at the BFI on the South Bank, but a trawl through the archive in Ray's cellars had not located a copy.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Filming John Carter of Mars</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Books</category><dc:date>2012-03-17T19:59:12+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/john-carter-of-mars.html#unique-entry-id-7</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/john-carter-of-mars.html#unique-entry-id-7</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Even when the author's Tarzan tales were cinema's hottest property, and Ray Harryhausen's marvellous animated monsters were wreaking stop-motion carnage in the Greek myths, every Hollywood producer accepted it was impossible to adapt Edgar Rice Burroughs' Martian series. 
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>The joys of ironing</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>General</category><dc:date>2012-03-16T17:53:08+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/joys-of-ironing.html#unique-entry-id-6</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/joys-of-ironing.html#unique-entry-id-6</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[There's nothing more relaxing than an hour with a mountain of crumpled but fragrant linen and an iPod loaded with back episodes of In Our Time and the Mark Kermode film reviews. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Comfort reading</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Books</category><dc:date>2012-03-15T17:05:06+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/anthony-trollope-comfort-reading.html#unique-entry-id-5</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/anthony-trollope-comfort-reading.html#unique-entry-id-5</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Yesterday evening I picked up The Way We Live Now, by Anthony Trollope, just to look at the cover and flick through a couple of pages... and before I put it down again I was two chapters deep. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Sweet bleep-bleep: why it&#x27;s wrong to censor a song</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>General</category><dc:date>2012-03-14T19:15:34+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/john-martyn-censored.html#unique-entry-id-4</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/john-martyn-censored.html#unique-entry-id-4</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA["Can't get enough of sweet cocaine, can't get enough of Mary-Jane," he sings, and that's probably two drug references, though only the first attracted the censor's prim scalpel.
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Reviewing the situation</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Books</category><dc:date>2012-03-13T14:49:37+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/book-reviews-on-amazon.html#unique-entry-id-3</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/book-reviews-on-amazon.html#unique-entry-id-3</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[My jaundiced view turned a deeper shade of yellow after Born Brilliant was published, when one reviewer rang me at home to complain that my publishers had just pointed out the embargo date to her &ndash;&nbsp;consequently, it wasn't worth writing a review and she had "wasted half a day reading your bloody book!"
]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>Jack And The Spitfires</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Jack And The Spitfires</category><dc:date>2012-03-12T15:48:00+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/Jack-And-The-Spitfires.html#unique-entry-id-2</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/Jack-And-The-Spitfires.html#unique-entry-id-2</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[I wanted to balance the books, in a manner of speaking, so at the same time I began writing a children's adventure, the sort of sci-fi fantasy I would most like to read to my older boy. ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>&#x201c;I hope it stays fine for you&#x21;&#x201d;</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>Kenneth Williams</category><dc:date>2012-03-10T20:13:15+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/I-hope-it-stays-fine-for-you.html#unique-entry-id-1</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/I-hope-it-stays-fine-for-you.html#unique-entry-id-1</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[He said it with a shrug &ndash; he wasn't looking for an argument, he was taking leave of the conversation, there would be no malice borne... but it wouldn't quite be true to say, "I couldn't care less." ]]></content:encoded></item><item><title>This is the reconstructed CGI News at 9 o&#x27;clock</title><dc:creator>Christopher Stevens</dc:creator><category>General</category><dc:date>2012-03-09T20:48:23+00:00</dc:date><link>http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/CGI-news.html#unique-entry-id-0</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://christopherstevens.info/blog/blog-2/files/CGI-news.html#unique-entry-id-0</guid><content:encoded><![CDATA[Within a few years, they'll be up to Pixar standards, and CGI reconstructions will look as real as anything you'd see on Crimewatch&hellip; at which point it will be even harder to distinguish between accurate reporting and made-up stories.]]></content:encoded></item></channel>
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