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Sunday, March 31, 2013

deep and crisp and even

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All I've ever wanted out of life was for people to say: that Dave, he's a pretty straight guy. You know, when he says a thing, you ...
Wednesday, March 27, 2013

gray expectations

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These days we can't just drop everything and jaunt up Pen Y Fan at the drop of a hat, as parental responsibilities tend to intervene. ...

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Robbie Robertson , chief creative force behind The Band and intermittent solo artist over the past 30 years or so, and the Duke himself, ...

a house by any other name

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Here's a thing I've never really understood: house names. I mean, I understand that back in the day some sort of descriptive thing w...
Monday, March 25, 2013

headline of the day

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Stand by for a bit more fuckwitted Daily Mail innumeracy . What's wrong with this headline? The answer, of course, is that the cl...
Sunday, March 24, 2013

radio blah blah

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Light and shade, tears and laughter, etc. etc. on the Radio 4 slot I like to call "the one after the Today programme" this week. O...

the blog cannot hear the blogger

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This week's literary Dead Pool also includes the rather more heavyweight name of Nigerian novelist Chinua Achebe . All I can tell you ...
Thursday, March 21, 2013

you spotty little herbert

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I see that James Herbert has died , though of course we shouldn't rule out the possibility that he may yet return as a hideously decom...
Wednesday, March 20, 2013

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Former world and Olympic downhill skiing champion and golfing WAG Lindsey Vonn , and former world tennis #1 and golfing WAG Caroline Wozni...
Wednesday, March 13, 2013

the pope must die

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All the hoo-hah over the election of a new Pope takes me back to my schooldays, specifically 1978 , when I was eight. Yes, I lived through...
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Tuesday, March 12, 2013

don't panic

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I'm a day late, as his birthday was yesterday (he would have been 61) but I think it would be appropriate at this point to offer you a c...
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Sunday, March 10, 2013

one hundred killer hurts

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A couple of brief follow-up thoughts on earlier posts: Memorable character though he is, Anton Chigurh from No Country For Old Men repres...

you may have my $25 when you pry it from my cold dead wallet

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Here's the latest missive from your friends and mine at Bud's Gun Shop , the lethal hot-lead-propelling device retailer of choice fo...
Tuesday, March 05, 2013

the last book I read

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No Country For Old Men by Cormac McCarthy. It's an early morning in 1980 in southern Texas, near the Rio Grande, and Llewellyn Moss...
Friday, March 01, 2013

incidental music spot of the day

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A brief snippet of the intro to The Band 's signature tune The Weight on the trailer for the new Tom Cruise apocalyptic sci-fi actio...

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Let's do another one. Here's this morning's Desert Island Discs castaway , autism expert Dr. Uta Frith (no, me neither), and c...
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Monday, February 25, 2013

the last book I read

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Dinner At The Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Pearl Tull is dying. But do her family flock to her bedside? Well, in general, no, or at...
Sunday, February 24, 2013

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Miranda 's resident comedy love interest and eye candy for the ladies Tom Ellis , and French loose cannon and one-man rugby calamity fac...
Saturday, February 23, 2013

it's a knockout, except when it isn't

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One of the things I quite like about the World Matchplay Championship that's currently underway in Arizona is how straight knockout tou...
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Friday, February 22, 2013

electric halibut brackets mister brackets

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Here is my theory, which, while not related to the brontosaurus in any way, is nonetheless mine, and I own it, and what it is too, and it...
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