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Monthly Archives: December 2010

Julian Assange totally stole my look

Maybe this means he’s applying to be the new columnist for IdeasTap?
Thanks to Narcsville for this superb spot.

So, I’m Famous II

Mints and dogs baby… mints and dogs.
Nell Frizzell

The Apprentice Final: At Last

Episode Thirteen. Also known as Episode Surely One Of Them Must Win By Now. Or Episode Can’t This Moron Just Ring Reed Like The Rest Of Us? Or Episode If He Doesn’t Hire Someone Soon I’m Staging An Intervention. That’s right; it’s the final. And as the credits roll their last, and [...]

So, I’m famous

Here I am representing Wales with my good friend Gwyn. It’s nice for him to have a run around. Terrible problem with his teeth though.
Nell Frizzell

Nell on Endings

Bobby Ewing did it in the shower, Paul McCartney did it with Her Majesty on Abbey Road, Agatha Christie did it in the drawing room and Franz Schubert never did it at all. I am, of course, talking about endings.
The Beatles – four Liverpudlian drug tourists whose haircuts I have been accidentally [...]

Jaws II and other news…

Some minor earringed Birmingham actor of ill repute once wrote that all the world’s a stage, and the men and women on it merely players. Mind you, the same man went on to claim that there existed a fairy’s midwife who rode around men’s noses in a hazelnut pulled by a small grey-coated gnat, so [...]

A lie told often enough becomes the truth

So, it’s 86 years today since the death of John Lenin. The famous Russian composer behind such hits as Rouble Lane and Marx’s Silver Hammer.
Nell Frizzell

The Apprentice: Episode Ten

Britain’s most belligerent boss and the oldest mod to ever be seen leaving a lift is still on the search
for a teasmaid. Or a photocopier. Or something. But in the fight to become The Apprentice, only
the formidably stupid, aggressive and nasal survive. It’s week ten and somehow The Apprentice
contestants have still failed to form a [...]

Nell on Drugs

Here’s my latest column for IdeasTap. I have a feeling the headline is going to make my father very happy…
In the words of Kingsley Amis, I write this sprawled, too wicked to move, spewed up like a broken spider crab on the tarry shingle of the morning. Some evil sprite of wine and [...]

Dolph Lundgren: An Interview

Beating Carl Weathers, meeting Andy Warhol and sleeping with Grace Jones: Nell Frizzell gets down to business with Dolph Lundgren
The man who exploded on to our screens as Ivan Drago in the cold war classic Rocky IV may be best known for his head-sized biceps, bottle-opener jaw line and honey blonde flat-top, but the [...]