This must be one of the best festival no-show excuses ever.
It's part conference, part trade show, part excuse to spend a week at extravagant parties with mobile's biggest influencers – all wrapped up into an unparalleled four-day event.
Attention deficit disorder is not a social disease, but the show tune excuses juvenile delinquency as a social disease.
It was the perfect storm for Spain's Sunday night shows – an excuse for everyone to shout and argue and put forward theories.
Indeed, the Parmigianino show is an excuse to explore, not just Parma, but also the surrounding countryside.There are Parmigianino exhibits in many smaller neighbouring towns.
The show is his excuse to "play music and talk shit" and move beyond the genres he uses with his band.
The four-hour show becomes an excuse for pointing up at the screen and loudly pronouncing subjective verdicts — "Oh, I like her!" (Reese Witherspoon); "She gets on my nerves!" (Anne Hathaway) — and eating too much pizza.
The most casually proficient contestant The Great British Bake Off has ever had, Selasi was a maverick who treated being on the UK's most popular show as an excuse to take time off work and have a nap.
Gilhooley, who has acted in BBC Scotland "Still Game" sitcom about two boisterous pensioners and written for the football comedy sketch show "Only An Excuse", explained that he first met McNamara in a superstore car park.
