dark beige

The year in review

2008 - The year that will surely be best remembered for Liverpool's incredible tenure as European capital of culture.

Not really. Credit crunch, the Beijing Olympics, Baby P and lots of strange sex criminals is about the size of it.

Now over the xmas period we take a look back at the year that is, was and forever will be 2008.

January - March

Lots of things happened, but as the blog wasn't yet up and running, I can't really remember what.

Dark Beige launched on Friday 28th of March, and at first was mainly a backlog of articles originally written in 2003, with one from 2001.

Michael Aspel asks Michael Parkinson to change his hair colour and name (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/sorry-parkie-im-british-broadcastings.html); Parkinson meanwhile contracts J Foxes disease by way of thanks to Michael J Fox for having parkinsons (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/parkie-now-ive-got-jfoxs-disease.html).

Paul Young uncovers the truth about 9/11 (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/9-11-truth.html), and Steven Seagal demands French tap water at a script development meeting (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/script-development-meeting-with-steven.html), before trading threats with Jean Claude Van Damme, both men using only the titles of their films to make their threats (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/dont-mess-with-me-im-steven-seagal.html, http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/seagal-response.html).

An adult Kevin Arnold regrets taking part in The Wonder Years (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/i-cant-stop-having-epiphanies.html), while both West London hammer killer Levi Bellfield and octagenarian blooper enthusiast Dennis Norden advised on reader's personal problems (http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-dennis.html, http://darkbeige.blogspot.com/2008/03/dear-levi.html).