Good morning. It’s 9:40 in the AM, and I’m just pasting text into the editor that lives up the backside of the Behatted blog for the sixth episode of The Weekly Hat. It’s been an unusually exciting week for Behatted’s real world-based cousin, as we’ve obtained both http://www.weeklyhat.com and http://www.theweeklyhat.com and pointed them all at our luscious new Weekly Hat homepage. All in the name of providing easy access to the Weekly Hat for people who can’t stand those stupid comic thingies.

Oh, the Weekly Hat also now has its own RSS feed and Twitter account, for domain-squatting purposes if nothing else. I’m not sure how much use the Twitter account will get, as my brain hurts enough just keeping something going on my personal account and my Behatted account, but there will at least be announcements of new releases and so forth.

Anyway, I shall shut up with the internet rubbish. Time to outline the contents of this week’s ladle of warmed-over jokes…

• Lead feature: Celebrity phone-hacking: A candidate for primetime ITV, surely?
• Dying in colour: One last time for Mister Jackson, then I promise I’ll never mention him again. If only the mainstream media would do the same.
• Media and stuff: A two part extravaganza this week…
  • The cricket-pop of the Duckworth Lewis Method: New band! New album! I saw them live!
  • Torchwood of Earth: The worst science fiction programme on television returns, and… is quite good. Uh-oh.
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: No sports section this week, but we can still cheer on our boys.
• Next week: The future is cloudy. (With chances of rain.)

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Good morning.

Back to the regular time slot this week after being pre-empted by the V festival last week. Unfortunately, we have a string of weekends coming up where I’m moving house, going on holiday and doing other busying things, so more jiggering about with the Weekly Hat schedule might follow. We’ll have to wait and see.

In the meantime, due to the worrying lack of genuine news I could find to write about, the sports section has been promoted to first place (freaky, I know), and everything else relegated to bullet points. We’re also covering the problems of Oasis, in a nice continuance from last week’s episode when I was denied the chance to see them at V. Sound exciting? Well, that’s because it is.

Precise table of contents follows…

• And now first, sports: Well, kinda sports-related. Cheating, hooliganism and other things that give sport a bad name. Yes, that’s what it takes to get the sport moved upfront.
• Look what happened!: The rest of this week’s news, in bullet points. Tabloid headlines! BBC abused by evil empire! GCSE results! Kidnap!
• Media and stuff: I wrote a perfectly good media section about light television programmes, and then Oasis imploded. Typical.
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: Oasis homage photo thing!

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Hi there.

The house move was successful and I come to you from my new room. Admittedly, I have a very restricted amunt of floor space due to the city of boxes that surround me, but I did at least successfully make my bed and lie in it. At 5:30AM after a couple of false starts.

So, now that we’ve got past that interruption, a quick alert for next week’s reason why the Weekly Hat might be late: I am on holiday from next Saturday until the following one. And hence, I will need to get the Weekly Hat pre-prepared to an even greater extent than usual. It should be possible, but will require planning. And the one after that… may be very late, very short or very non-existent. We’ll see.

But for now, this week’s well-timed burbles:

• Liquid Love: Terrorists arrested! Destroy my chances of having a drink on a plane! Ages ago! Trial recently! Thus current!
• Utter balls?: Derren Brown predicts the lottery. And then pretends he actually did predict the lottery.
• Media and stuff: Theatre! Rap! Facebook! How unusual!
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: A reward for a true winner. Well, if you count featuring here as a “reward”.

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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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Weekly Hat time! It wasn’t too difficult to write this week, happily. Stuff must have been easy. Plus I’ve had the whole week off, so I’ve been fairly calm and work has come easy.

Just for the record, in case a big news story breaks and I appear to have ignored it, this is being written on Saturday morning, as I’m back in Essex for this evening and most of Sunday. Hopefully the auto-post will serve me as well as it did on my holiday. Oh, and if you want more writings by me, I have a new blog thing which is called Feeding The Black Dog. Just one more quick plug for anyone who doesn’t read the Behatted newsposts.

But the Weekly Hat will continue, because I like it. This week…

• The Friendly Prime Minister: The PM tries to show his human face, just in time for the election.
• Atrocity Live: Has Twitter changed the reporting of horrible things? Starting with Fort Hood, a brief exploration.
• Media And Stuff: New Spooks! New Robbie Williams! New Weezer! (Well, some of the new Weezer…)
• Behatted Photo Of The Week: The future King Of The World gets double-Behatted.

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