Heroes
February 12, 2007
People who I should say “thanks” to before they die.
Bernard Cribbins
The comic songs, the character acting, the stories on Jackanory, the unmistakeable voice, the Wombles. Bernard I salute you!
Rolf Harris
Needs no introduction. Painter, singer, musician, cartoonist, presenter and all round good egg. Rolf I salute you!
Frankie Howerd
Too late I know. Master of the double entendre. I love wordplay, and Frankie’s affectations just made me laugh out loud. Get your titters out!
Paul Simon
Genius singer/songwriter. Graceland is still one of my favourite albums. I know he had help on there, but even so. And there’s all the other stuff before that too. Genius.
Edward Tufte
Sometimes you read a book which makes sense of a whole lot of things you only had an inkling of before. Such was the The Visual Display of Quantitative Information for me. Prof. Tufte, I salute you.
March 11, 2007 at 10:37 pm
How about Humphrey Littleton & co in ISIHAC?
I never understood what a blog was before! Very entertaining.
July 2, 2007 at 11:04 pm
[...] of my heroes, Rolf Harris, will be able to vouch for the Mike and the Mechanics song. We know from Animal [...]
October 19, 2007 at 10:11 pm
[...] there’s less new stuff to amaze and delight the mind. I’ve just added a new hero to my heroes page, in the person of Professor Edward Tufte, a man who talks an awful lot of sense about [...]