Much as YouTube might be The Future Of The Internet As We Know It (Until The Next One Comes Along), it is not without its limitations... and, as I have recently discovered, its irritations.

If your Flash-enabled browser will allow it (and I realise that for some of you "It's my coffee break, honest!" office types, it will not), then cast your eyes down to the post below this one. As those of you on the right side of the digital divide will observe, the folks at YouTube have automatically selected a still image from the middle of my Trodicast™, with which to adorn their invitation-to-click.

Frankly, I'm horrified. As these vidcasts have demonstrated - for I have never watched myself talking to camera before - my dolly old eek does seem to be furnished with an unusually wide expressive range. (Well, I always was "theatrical".) However, does it really have to do that? Why, it looks as if... as if... as if...

Well, what do you think it looks like? At the suggestion of Ms. Anxious, I propose to settle the matter by means of a CAPTION COMPETITION.

Please leave your suggested captions in the comments box attached to this post. You have until Wednesday October 25th to do this.

The winner - as judged by myself and my fragrant civil partner K - will receive a much coveted Troubled Diva coffee mug, bearing the site's distinctive logo in an attractive "wrap-around" design.

(For disappointed runners-up: consolation mugs are - of course! - available for purchase. Yes, it's another thinly disguised marketing campaign.)

Go on, then. Humiliate me at my own expense, why dontcha? My box eagerly awaits your entries.

Labels: competition, merchandise

Vidcasts vs. blog posts ; difficult & boring vs. easy & interesting ; Badly Drawn Boy, The 1990s, The Long Blondes ; Marrakesch and the avoidance of street hassle.

Labels: competition, merchandise, vidcasts

Monday. Book holiday for late November. Gig: The Long Blondes at the Rescue Rooms.

Tuesday. Album reviews: Isobel Campbell and Duke Special.

Wednesday. Gig: The Automatic and Mumm-Ra, Trent University.

Thursday. A drinks do in London.

Friday. London art gallery crawl. Gig: Camera Obscura, The Social.

Something tells me that blogging might be quite light this week. Advance apologies.