"LOOK, IF YOU WANT TO TORTURE ME, SPANK ME, LICK ME, DO IT. BUT IF THIS POETRY SHIT CONTINUES JUST SHOOT ME NOW PLEASE" Just watched the first part of Tipping the Velvet. Remember the scenes in Blackadder with Bob? Excruciatingly similar apart from the fact that the Rowan Atkinson series was intentionally funny where as the show I just watched was fucking dreadful but had me laughing in disbelief. The tale of an oyster girl who falls in love with another girl called Kitty - full of the kind of innuendo that Frankie Howard wouldn't lower himself to and some of it quite unintentional: "I hope you don't mind being invaded Alice." The sex is aimed squarely at the Daily Mail crowd who will scowl at it in public and wank themselves stupid in private. Television as a rule is bad - Hollyoaks for example, but this is worse because of it's literary credentials. The next time the BBC has money to waste perhaps they should just film Sarah Waters being fisted by Vanessa Feltz. Mike is blogging to: nothing