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Tuesday, September 25, 2012

dixon of cock green

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It's very easy to get caught up in the gleeful schadenfreude surrounding the Andrew Mitchell affair , and there's no doubt that with...
Monday, September 24, 2012

the last book I read

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Millennium People by J.G. Ballard. David Markham is a psychologist (a typically Ballardian occupation) all set to jet off to America o...
Sunday, September 23, 2012

incidental music spot of the day

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Low by Cracker over some of the player background info sequences on Sky Sports' coverage of the final round of the Tour Championship . ...
Wednesday, September 19, 2012

willy make it? no

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Here's something I forgot to add to the previous post, but to be honest it was starting to get a bit long anyway. One of the things we d...

time off in Looe

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Here's a few notes on our trip to Cornwall last week - a sort of combination family holiday for the three of us combined with a substitu...
Monday, September 17, 2012

the last book I read

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On The Road by Jack Kerouac. Before we start, chalk up another one for the list entitled Books I Bought Like A Gazillion Years Ago And ...
Wednesday, September 05, 2012

headline of the day

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Startling news from the normally normally sedate environs of Cirencester: Just in case you thought that this was just some sort of ina...
Tuesday, September 04, 2012

publish and be drammed

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My wife and baby daughter are away for a couple of days, so it's time to kick back, pour a glass of something brown and volatile, and la...
Friday, August 31, 2012

there's always a catch

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Much has been written about Andrew Strauss ' departure from the England captaincy this week, so I'll restrict myself to a couple of...
Wednesday, August 29, 2012

the last book I read

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Idoru by William Gibson. Colin Laney has a weird talent - he's able to detect patterns in computer data by picking out "nodal poi...
Monday, August 27, 2012

two-and-a-bit-item list of the day

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Brand names that I never really "got" until having a belated forehead-slapping moment of "oh, riiiigghht! " revelatory c...
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Friday, August 24, 2012

headline of the day

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This one from a couple of days ago on the BBC website : This is of course another crash blossom as previously mentioned here and here...
Monday, August 13, 2012

the last book I read

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Age Of Iron by JM Coetzee. Mrs. Curren is a retired classics professor living in Cape Town at the tail-end of the 1980s. Not only is th...
Thursday, August 09, 2012

the year of the sexist olympics

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Leaving aside a bit of disagreement on how best to handle the foul stench emanating from their groinal areas, we're all pretty much dow...
Wednesday, August 08, 2012

kneale before zod

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Just a quick addition to the last post: my teasing reference and subliminal link to Nigel Kneale 's 1968 drama The Year Of The Sex Olym...

the year of the sex olympics

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I suppose it's obligatory to do a post at least tangentially related to the Olympics, so here goes. Tangentially, though, remember, so n...
Wednesday, July 25, 2012

new model salami

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Never mind Allah writing his name in aubergines and all that stuff, here's a haunted piece of salami I found last night! Now I ass...

one little prick and it's all over

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It was a double helping of early morning shouting at the radio in the car last week. And a good thing too as I find it really sets me up for...
Monday, July 23, 2012

the last book I read

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The Illusionist by Jennifer Johnston. Stella meets Martyn on a train, some time in the early 1960s. She is an impressionable young woma...
Tuesday, July 17, 2012

god sinks a long one

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Here's your regular religious arsebasketry round-up. Firstly another data point in support of my theory that most high-profile Amer...
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