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Knee High By The Fourth Of July Happy Birthday America! Now if only you'd act your age...
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Ominously, The Cat Leaped Out Of The Bag I've been hinting about it for a while, but now the news is official. I'm contributing to an anthology of stories based on and around...
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If You're Fond Of Sand Dunes And Salty Air... There's a really strong smell of the sea blowing in on the breeze. You know, that mild salty scent that you get just before you...
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Bugger That For A Game Of Soldiers I got my selective service registration card the other day. Bollocks to that. Now, I don't think there'll be a draft anytime soon, for a...
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Only In America See if you can spot what's so odd about this drive-through cash machine...
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Liberal Bias In The Media Of course there is. That's why a bloke whose main contribution to the world was starving thousands of Russians to death gets his funeral televised on...
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Two Sides Of America Here's one horrible story that just makes me want to pack up and go home, and here's something that makes me smile and give a little quizzical frown. Quite...
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Remember, Remember, the...er...31st of May? (or Long Films and Furniture Sales) As millions of Americans remembered the lost and the fallen* by...um...having barbecues, Meg and...
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Not Very Convincing... ...but it's the result that counts. Let's hope they stay in the First Division for longer this time around.
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Face...Off! Life imitates John Woo. I'm not sure whether thanking Jeremy for this is appropriate, as it creeps the heck out of me, but behold The Subservient Chicken. Now I'm...
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Goggle Box I've been looking through the upcoming television season here in the States, to see if there's anything worth watching, and specifically, anything worth watching...
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Losing Face And Blasting Frenchies I wonder, does it really look worse in the eyes of the general populace to say "Yes, we bombed an innocent wedding party, and we're very very...
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More Military Doublespeak I'm either very naive or highly optimistic, but whenever I heard about "civilian contractors" getting into trouble in Iraq, I assumed that they were...
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A Question Of Morals and Meanings How come when they do it to us, it's "barbaric torture", but when we do it to them it's only "abuse"?
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Hey Hey 16k Brilliant. Time to fire up the emulators again...
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It's Just Rounders For Fat Blokes, Innit? There are many very very good reasons to deride baseball, but this story highlights surely one of the most damning aspects of the...
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Liam Won't Be Pleased... We finally saw 13 Going On 30, and you know what? It's actually pretty good. It's a good solid romantic comedy that does what it sets out to do and...
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Apologies To The Bloggers I've not been commenting at your blogs because I've had little to say, to be honest, so sorry about that. But I've still been visiting your blogs and...
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"I Am The Punisher/And I Ride And I Ride..." Sorry. Couldn't resist it. I thoroughly enjoyed The Punisher. It was a very well made film, although I do have some reservations...
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Bicycle-riding psychopaths, birthday parties, and Lovecraftian Horror This past weekend was surprisingly packed. On Saturday, Meg's Dad came up and helped us sort out our PC...
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Arseburgers Orbital are splitting up. And what's more, they're doing their final farewell gig at Glastonbury this year, closing the festival. Buggeration.
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Thwap! Crack! Slash! Awww! We saw Kill Bill 2 the other day, and I have to say that while it's less inventive and certainly less violent than the first, it's probably the...
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Stormy Weather We had the first of the big summer storms last night. It lasted a good four or five hours, from about five in the afternoon. I've seen bigger storms. I've seen...
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23 Inventiveness is at a minimum, so it's time for a questionnaire. What's even better is that some of the questions are time-sensitive, and yet I've had this stored on the...
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Kevin Grows Up Explain something to me. How come the doors for disabled users in public places (for instance, the Mall Of America) are harder to open than the standard doors?...
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Did You See... Sorry about the delay. We went down to Rochester to help out Meg's mum (who's not well), stayed for Easter, and stayed a bit longer still because the car broke...
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Broken Relatives My uncle is still in critical condition, but recovering. Meg's grandfather had a heart attack a couple of days ago, but also seems to be recovering. And Meg's...
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Inappropriately Titled A few days ago, my uncle Peter had an aneurism while celebrating his twenty-fifth wedding anniversary in Las Vegas. That would be a textbook definition...
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Spotless It's Sliding Doors without the middle-class smugness. It's Vanilla Sky without the general lack of redeeming features whatsoever. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind...
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Ah! Spring! The sun is shining, animals are becoming more active, and people seem more cheerful. The air is full of bird song, the trees are starting to bud, and as the ice...