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Saturday, December 30, 2023

the last book I read

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Endless Night by Agatha Christie.  Mike Rogers is a little bit WHOOOAAA, a little bit WHEEEYYY; he is, in short, a geezer . Well, perhaps t...
Wednesday, December 20, 2023

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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I can't remember how I came across this video featuring former Nirvana bassist Krist Novoselic (among others, including Soundgarden gu...

and I know that I am dying, and I wish I could beg

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I find myself oddly uncomfortable with some of the fulsome tributes to Pogues frontman Shane MacGowan, who died a couple of weeks ago. Not ...
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Saturday, December 16, 2023

the last book I read

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The Lyre Of Orpheus by Robertson Davies. Meet the Cornish family and their assorted friends and hangers-on. Well, hang on, actually we don...
Friday, November 17, 2023

the last book I read

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Speedboat by Renata Adler. Jen Fain is, we gather, a journalist, working primarily in New York. I say "we gather" because there...
Thursday, November 16, 2023

double or nothing

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Yes, it's esoteric cricket records and factoids time again. Is that in tribute to the climactic stages of the 2023 Cricket World Cup ...

absolute bulltwit

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Here's a bit of random fun: you'll probably have all seen one or more of the various internet things that attempt to categorise put...
Saturday, November 11, 2023

mein drampf

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Here is the whisky news. And the whisky news is: I've run out of whisky! Yes, the bottle of Johnnie Walker Black Label that I've be...
Monday, October 30, 2023

the last book I read

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Transit by Rachel Cusk. We are back in the company of the protagonist of Outline . Or, rather, not really in her company, since one of the ...
Monday, October 23, 2023

the last book I read

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Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. War - war is stupid ; and people are stupid. Just a few of the thoughts that pass through the mind of Inm...
Tuesday, October 03, 2023

spaghetti alla carbonfibre

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I see I didn't do a stats update in the wake of Europe's demoralising defeat in the 2021 Ryder Cup, so I guess a catch-up is in orde...
Monday, October 02, 2023

the last book I read

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All That Follows by Jim Crace. Leonard Lessing is a jazz saxophonist. Pretty cool, right, only he's more of a former/lapsed jazz saxoph...
Monday, September 25, 2023

the last book I read

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Against A Dark Background by Iain M Banks. Meet Sharrow. She only has the one name because she is a Proper Lady, descendant of a noble fami...
Wednesday, September 20, 2023

welcome to the machine

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Here's an odd thing I noticed yesterday which I surely can't have been the first person to question, and which I'm mildly surpri...
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