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Wednesday, January 31, 2018

why did the halibut cross the ocean? to see his flatmates

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In a shocking and shameful dereliction of duty and a betrayal of everything that this blog stands for, I note that we have only done one hal...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

the last book I read

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Matter by Iain M Banks. Here on Earth we take the whole planet occupation thing for granted. Simply evolve over a series of aeons from s...
Wednesday, January 24, 2018

dry January? more like DIE January

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Another day, another gratifyingly early fulfilment of a New Year's resolution, this one being to really step up the brutal and  relentle...
Monday, January 15, 2018

valley of the dulls

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Sorry to do a follow-up to a follow-up , but I remember how I happened across the Spurn story now: I was fiddling with an Ordnance Survey ...
Sunday, January 14, 2018

a low spurn count

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Here's a bit of a round-up of some bits and bobs that probably don't merit a blog post of their own: I was going to make the poi...
Monday, January 08, 2018

a mountain sense of excitement

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It's always nice to at least make a start on fulfilling a New Year's resolution early doors, less than a week after New Year's D...
Friday, January 05, 2018

mounds of love, by Kate's bush

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Here's a couple of recent news (or, more accurately, "news") stories which revisit some stuff featured a few years back right ...
Thursday, January 04, 2018

the last book I read

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Stick by Elmore Leonard. Ernest Stickley jr. is a little bit whooaaahh , a little bit wheeeyyy , a bit tasty, a bit dodgy. He's a g...
Saturday, December 23, 2017

the last book I read

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The Human Stain by Philip Roth. Coleman Silk is an ex-professor of classics and former dean of faculty at a New England university. Des...
Wednesday, December 20, 2017

sage and uncle stuffing and granberry sauce

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A couple of examples, as if further proof were necessary, that Electric Halibut surfs the very bleeding edge of the Zeitgeist , protected on...
Friday, December 15, 2017

elektrischer Heilbutt: jetzt mit farbstoff

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One thing I noticed while sitting around in a pair of crusty urine-soaked underpants morosely swigging neat whisky out of the bottle the ot...
Monday, November 13, 2017

break on theroux to the other side

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One thing I forgot to mention in the last book review was that Barefoot In The Head is full of allusions to the mystical writings and teac...
Wednesday, October 25, 2017

the last book I read

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Barefoot In The Head by Brian Aldiss. It's the late 20th century, and there's been a war. So far so standardly post-apocalyptica...
Tuesday, October 24, 2017

featuring songs by Nine Inch Nails and Skrewdriver

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I'll tell you what fascinates me about things like the new Nick Knowles album (yes, it's really a thing, it's happening , and t...
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Living entirely on a diet of sponge fingers and Tizer, the electric halibut is an elusive, enigmatic creature. Who knows where he will pop up next? He may be coming to your town.....no, hang on, that was the Monkees.
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