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"Working with a baby had its problems, but then I tried directing chickens..." Their president is being booed off the streets of London, an effigy of the man is being torn down...
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How About Some Politics? Some Satire Perhaps? No? How About Some Lovely Jam? And now for some current affairs. This one came to me via Courtney and Liam. As Liam points out, it...
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The Beauty Of Language Normally, I try to keep this page all-ages-friendly, but I couldn't pass this one up, especially since that bear-thing is so cute: What swear word are...
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children black fingernails chop off their hands Years ago, I remember that the Eurovision Song Contest was on the telly. I was too young to go out, and there was nothing else...
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Bush and Becks Here's a fun piece. The Guardian asked a number of people to write a letter to Bush, in honour of his visit to Britain. Letters to Santa, if Santa was a power...
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Stripmining The Past There's a young bride, mid twenties, looking gorgeous in her wedding dress, but visibly upset. "It's too soon, isn't it?" she asks in an English accent....
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"...a twist in the fabric of space, where time becomes a loop..." Weird feeling this. I'm listening to British radio over the 'net, and it's getting on for half five over...
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I Hate It Here Right now, I'm listening to British radio (Xfm at the mo) over the internet because (a) internet access is free and unlimited over here, and (b) American radio...
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Providence As I went through my daily rounds of Other People's Blogs, I noticed that some people order their links alphabetically, and as such, my blog is often at or near the...
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Spud-U-Like You are Spider Jerusalem. Spider is THE journalist of the future. He smokes, he does drugs, and he kicks ass. The drugs are going to eventually kill him but not...
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Bibliophile A trip to the local Half-Price Books (a national chain that does exactly what it says on the tin) led to a spiffing Hellboy calendar for 2004, with lots of lovely...
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The World's All Curvy... One of the things I don't like about this new PC is that it has a monitor. After using a laptop for years, I've grown quite used to the crisp,...
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The Matrix Revisionist The nature of freedom fascinates me. I wrote my dissertation at university on it. Specifically, I'm very interested in the apparent tensions between...
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Contradictions In E Minor So, if I'm in such a good mood, why has today's playlist so far been this and this? Good albums, both, but hardly cheery. Perhaps I'll put this on...
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Melek Stonecutter: Casts Fireball Beholder takes 41 damage In what is apparently a common problem for those computers with Athlon processors, the random shutdown problem...
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"...I had what alcoholics refer to as a moment of clarity..." Yesterday, Kev reported that he'd achieved a state of transcendental calmness, completely unintentionally....
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"e ne em ma ni a gi a gi ni mu ma ma dam e ne em am an ki ga a gi a gi..." Dear God, now my right eye has stopped working. What is working, however, is the comments system....
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Fear Is The Mind-killer...Well, Lack Of Sleep Will Do It Too I am somewhat dazed at the moment. I'm not sure whether it's because of my recent lack of sleep, or whether it's...
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Things To Do In Denver (or Minnesota) When You're Dead (Tired) Hmm. Well, BlogExtra say that the comments problem will be sorted out within a day or two, although I'm a little...
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Leave Me Behind, I'll Only Slow You Down Well, the lack of comments would appear to be due to the disappearance of the BlogExtra server. Last time this happened, I added a...
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Er... Well, my links are back, but now my comments are gone. Willikers.
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Winter Wonderland It's snowing. =D
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And The Winner Is... Hmm...a lot of people seemed to have a very vague idea of the answer to last weekend's Halloween competition question. Most people seemd to know that there...
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William Shatner's Face II It was bitterly cold tonight, as I found myself escorting a bunch of children I have no blood relation to around American Suburbia (which is exactly...
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William Shatner's Face Here's a reprint of The Guardian's report on the famous War of the Worlds hoax that Orson Welles pulled off sixty-five years ago today. Brilliant. And to...
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Vampire Babies And Female Footballers Somehow, it seems appropriate that this tale of toddler bloodsuckers comes from eastern Europe, where all the best vampire stories come...
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Astonishing Indeed On the recommendation of Mr Regie Rigby, I paid my money and this morning received a copy of Garen Ewing's The Rainbow Orchid. Yes, it looks and feels lot...
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Anyone Know What "Corset Training" Is? My old school chum Helen has a website to show off her Goth modelling ways. Apparently, she's been "corset training for some time now"...
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Admitting Defeat I finished Eyes Of The Dragon, only to read on the very last page that two of the book's characters met up with Flagg again after the events of this book, and...
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Sometimes The World Is Neat Old news, but still worth a mention. Bill Murray is to provide the voice for the CGI cat in the upcoming Garfield movie. Why is this neat? Well the...