HI there. A reasonably easy news week has just passed us by, accompanied by a few nice, blatant media moments. As you may note, it’s 10:30PM, about 12 hours later than I usually do this (I was at a party), so let’s get into it. I still need to get the week’s Behatted strips set up.

• Media And Fascism – An Extension: Nick Griffin of the BNP was on the BBC, you know.
• And The Band Plays On: Meanwhile, the recession chugs onwards.
• Media And Stuff: Up! Thick Of It! Unusual diversion into pop music!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Unusual diversion continues…

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Happy Sunday morning, everybody!

I say that with such emphasis because I’m writing this intro on Friday lunchtime, having produced all the proper material on Thursday night. So if anything planet-shattering takes place on Saturday, apologies for my seeming omission. I will thereotically be in reach of a computer, so in the event of genuine Earth-smashery, I’ll find a way to mention it. But I am away in Essex this weekend, and this seemed a good way to make sure the updates happen.

(Plus I had Friday lunchtime free, and I rather liked the idea of getting the process of actually posting out of the way. It’s not too bad, but does involve a bit of tedious HTML jiggering)

Your contents this week are…

• And Then The Word “Banker” Became Rhyming Slang: As bankers get casually mud-splashed in the papers yet again, I muse idly about their fall from non-grace.
• And Now Golf (As A Euphemism): I considered not mentioning Tiger Woods, but nothing else seemed worth using.
• Media And Stuff: Mid-season Spooks checkin, festive Killers, yet more Doctor Bloody Who (kinda)…
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Not only is Tiger Woods an easy source of ideas, he also has a pleasingly large amount of open-licenced photos.

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Good evening. And, indeed, happy Christmas!

Yes, this be the last Weekly Hat before turkey day on Friday. I am viewing next week’s as the big Christmas Special, as that will go out the day after Boxing Day and feature such festive things as the Christmas Doctor Who episode and, um, something else. But today is the last one before it, so have a good day.

It’s also a bit later than usual, partly because I didn’t start it until eleven this morning and partly because I wanted to wait for the result of the Rage/McElderry chart showdown. As luck would have it, said results leaked at about half three, so I’ve done all the writing by half four and, presuming the leaks are correct, will just click publish shortly after they announce the number one at seven.

That’s probably enough preamble. Contents!

• How About This Weather?: This week, two big stories have hit involving weather. So I have combined them.
• Media And Stuff Special – Raging Against The X Factor: Decided this had become big enough to expand from the Media bit.
• Media And Stuff: Plus I had enough other random guff to fill this bit without it. Merlin! Doctor Who! Get a free book!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Someone whose TV show has just finished. (For now.)

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Good morning, everybody. And welcome to the penultimate Weekly Hat.

I must admit, it has been somewhat of a chore creating this, due to various technical/internet connection related problems. This intro will probably be quite short, in a bid to get it saved an published before anything else has a chance to crash. However (returning to this now that I’ve finally finished the bulk of the tasks), I will mention that I will miss the Weekly Hat in a way, mostly because it’s been fun having a deadline. More sobbing nostalgia next week, along with a fair bit of Doctor Who.

So, contents…

• Stationary For Christmas: This Christmas, transportation has risen up against us…
• Sale Away: And, with the holidays out of the way, the sales can commence…
• Media And Stuff: Doctor Who! Spooks! Music! + More!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Big fat festive man.

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