The Rise of the Idiots

Rise of the idiots screen grab

Dan Ashcroft on Idiots (from the post-retro-ironic-futuristic Nathan Barley).

“They use the word cool, it is their favourite word…
Thinking is rubbish and rubbish isn’t cool…
Stuff and shit is cool…”

See the rest here.

Still painfully genius. Perhaps becoming more so than ever. View the clip via Channel 4’s groovy new-ish clips thing on their website (no embedding unfortunately).

The Emperor’s New Hoodie


This really does feel like Nathan Barley has come to life and everyone wants a bit. (As an aside I just found this compilation of the original Nathan Barley stuff from TV Go Home – very dark and very funny).

Personally I found this bit of graffiti I spotted in Brighton much more thought provoking ;-)

War is Naughty

Anyone want to buy it for £10,000?