SHAUN HUTSON

WHO NEEDS 3-D?

15th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I’ve just got back from seeing the latest 3-D offering at the cinema, RESIDENT EVIL; AFTERLIFE.  Afterbirth would probably have been more fitting but that’s another matter.  As I sat there being astonished by the latest technology (courtesy of a pair of plastic glasses perched on the end of my nose), ducking every time a piece of debris came hurtling towards me, cowering every time a bullet was fired from...

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Why not write a novel?

10th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Is everyone in the country a writer?  The reason I ask is because every single contributor to programmes such as  ‘One Hundred Greatest Comedians/films/cartoons/albums/pile creams/stool softeners etc. etc.” is listed as a writer as well as a musician/broadcaster/pornographer or whatever else they’re deemed to be.

This fascination with being called a writer has extended into celebrity circles but it has intruded way beyond the ghost written columns in magazines and newspapers...

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Keep Dogs On Leads

7th September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

I watched from my window in hysterics yesterday evening as the owner of an Alsatian tried to exercise his ‘training’ methods on his animal with all the success of King Canute trying to hold back the tide.
No doubt the owner of the Alsatian had read all the books by experts telling him how to control the beast as he kept making hand signals in its general direction that made me...

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Why not become a celebrity?

3rd September 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

That was what the advert on the back of the paper said.  It guaranteed that if you followed the steps of the course then literary riches and fame were just a few weeks away.

This of course is rubbish.  You don’t become a writer by following a twelve step plan and paying to be told how to write but it set me thinking.  Why not advertise a course where people can...

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Is swearing always a bad thing? It’s not big and it’s not clever

27th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Anyone who says they never swear is a liar.

I know it’s not big and it’s not clever to use expletives every few words and obviously overuse of four letter words tends to diminish their impact after a while but anyone who says they’ve never uttered a curse word in their lives is telling porkies in my humble opinion.

I know it’s not pleasant to swear, I know it’s not right to...

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Road Kill: Who clears up road kill?

27th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Driving along the other night I hit something.

It was a cat; don’t panic, it was nothing important like a small child or an old age pensioner.  Just a cat.  And it was accidental.  I didn’t see this flea bitten moggy in the road, floor the accelerator and chase it all over the tarmac trying to flatten it.  What happened was a genuine mistake and, as I heard the thud and...

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Celebrity Second Coming

27th August 2010 | 0 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Someone stops you in the street and says “look at my hair, you should get yours cut like this and aren’t my clothes nice, you should get some like this.”  What would you do?  Tell them to get lost I’m hoping (but in a more direct and easily understandable way consisting of words mostly beginning with F).

Why don’t people do this with celebrities then?  Who in their right mind would...

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Hello world!

25th August 2010 | 1 comments | 0 votes yet, click here to agree or disagree

Welcome to Thecollectivereview.com. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!...

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