What is a Rostrum Camera and why is Ken Morse the Only Person who has one?

Read this by way of the Recently Updated Blogs just now. I love the misspelling of Laundromat as Laudermat. I have images of a lino and Formica decorated shop with nothing but images of the late great professional Scotsman. The world is weird isn't it? Weirdness is good when you are writing a blog or making an entertainment show but becomes worrisome when it becomes part of the day-to-day management of multinational companies. Or the Military. Or the Medical Profession. Or ... Well you get the message. It seems that people try to make a mark in business and the other disciplines in the same way that artists try to make a mark by being weird or reducing their output to the simplest thing - crumpled paper balls comes to mind. However, at least art has some sort of meaning. A lot of management speak is empty drivel which the people who spout it do not understand. We have all heard it and we are never brave enough to ask exactly what it means. I once asked someone who had just used the word "paradigm" what it actually meant and provoked a debate which made it obvious that the meaning was not clear to anyone in the room. It was used because it sounded vaguely scientific thereby stringing out what should have been a simple presentation of an easily understandable concept into a deep and apparently meaningful hour. Question all the buzzwords and you will find that "buzz" is the apposite one - a long low humming which conveys no meaning. Except perhaps to Bees and the Audience for Barrymore (Michael not John).

We watched QI last night. This is new opportunity for Stephen Fry to be really clever. It is a panel game with Fry in the chair and four guests - one of whom is always Alan Davies. It has no cuts to rostrum camera (So Ken Morse is out of work) or music. It is just five men talking and occasionally answering questions. It could very easily have been too arch but Stephen Fry is very good at making things like this seem like a chat down the pub but still with the intellectual depth to ride above the normal tat of TV these days. Subjects last night were Caravaggio, Adam and the Archbishop of Canterbury and Llamas. Actually there were no Llamas but there should have been. We need to see more Llamas on intelligent TV shows. Better than tubs of lard anyway.

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Arghhh.