Back together again

There's a fairly strong argument that Twitter and Facebook are slowly killing blogging. Certainly since I got the "Twitter bug" in particular, this blog has seemed just too much like hard work.

I know that my feeds in Google Reader have a number of blogs that are no longer updated yet I follow/am friends with the writers on Twitter/Facebook and they are active on both, so clearly I'm not alone. I also know of some people who have had to drop both Twitter & Facebook so that they can continue/return to their blog.

In my case I have had ideas for blogs, it's just that the moment passes and it's then easier to make a 140 character pithy remark on Twitter instead! (Well that's the theory any way!)

So what have I "nearly blogged" about?

1. I watched the film comedy "Paul" starring Simon Pegg and Nick Frost. Good film, but why, I wondered, did a film so "down" on Christianity end with sacrificial death and then a resurrection? 
2. Why is it that bands I grew up with, and whose music I still adore and listen to regularly, have to make complete idiots of themselves and their fans by touring with lead singers from tribute bands or American Idol. Yes & Queen step forward. The former has now got to farcical levels, with a second such singer now joining them, when the original singer, Jon Anderson, is now fit and well enough to be in the band. The latter just isn't Queen. A good rock band yes, as was Taylor May and Rodgers*, but NOT Queen! Freddie's dead and John Deacon has retired (or knows Freddie's dead and wants no part of kicking his legacy to death) so IT WILL NEVER BE QUEEN.
3. Football and more importantly that Saints are currently top of the Championship and have been for most of the season. The last three seasons  have in fact been a great time to be a Saints fan, with a promotion, winning a trophy at Wembley and now the realistic chance of a return to the Premier League. 
4. Football teams not paying taxes. I'm trying to be impartial here and ignore the fact that it's Pompey, but surely some kind of root and branch investigation needs to be undertaken to see how, so quickly after HMRC were denied a large chunk of tax in the first Administration, that a second chunk is now owing and likely to remain unpaid. 

So there we go, some of my nearly blogs and now let's see how long it is before my next entry!

*That's what they're called in my iTunes library as opposed to Queen+ Paul Rodgers.