Fevered Mutterings
Oh No, Not Again
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2008: Well, That Was Unexpected.
Im here at my mums in East Yorkshire, the sparrows are coughing and shivering in the trees and stamping their little feet to get warm and huddling round little braziers and wearing scarves made of moss and lichen and occasionally lifting a wing to block the wind so they can light up a fag, the sky i …
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Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) is the Longest Song In The World
Its a well-known fact that Peter Sarstedts Where Do You Go To (My Lovely) is the longest song in the history of music. Dont misunderstand me: I dont mean this empirically. Its actually just over 4 minutes long, in realtime. But nobody experiences time in realtime (take the length of the fifty-ninth …
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My Words (And Others): Your Chance To Opine
For the last 11 months, Ive been one of the writing team at Ecosalon, a blog about eco-friendly and all-round sustainable living. Maybe youve read / pondered / laughed in the face of some of my work over there. Maybe you take great pains to recycle, think looking after things is just good common se …
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Stray Moment
Walmgate Stray, York, 7th December. (Yes, Photoshop may have been involved at some point).
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Caprica Gets Green Light
And the post-Battlestar-Galactica world suddenly seems bearable.
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The Man Who Yet Again Thought It Was Thursday.
Image: cayusa. I am a mere plaything of space/time. Im back in Hornsea yet again. Regular readers will know that this probably means my mum was ill, and that I had to drop things in York and rush through on the bus. And theyd be bang on the money. However, shes recovered nicely, no hospital visit th …
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And Again, Elsewhere
Promoting Wooden Grenades, I be.
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Metaboli and Steam: Swapping Disks On Your Behalf
Image: stargazer95050 If theres one yardstick of how modern PCs have improved in user-friendliess, its how programs get installed. 1988 1. Open box. It contains a manual and a number of bundles of 3.5 floppy disks. (If there are less than 5 floppies its hard to fight down the feeling that youve …
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Threads
The 1984 BBC nuclear apocalypse drama. Its been released on Google Video, in its entirety. I watched it this evening. Id forgotten how much power it has. After 20 years, its still left me shaking. Terrifyingly real. Horribly unsettling.
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Human Nature v0.1
Overheard at my local Fishn'Chip shop: Customer: Owright luv. Ill ave 3 fish, and Fryer: You only ordered one fish. Customer: Wot? Fryer: Were closing in five minutes. You only ordered one fish when I asked you. Customer: But theres three fish there. I can see em. Fryer: The other two fish …
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Fryd Blackberries in Twitter: Delicious.
Image: andyi Stephen Fry recently toured America, and as my housemate noted, all the people he met had no apparent inkling that he was the other half of a comedy duo with Gregory House. Its amazing he had the time for this epic gallivanting, what with award-winningly presenting Q.I. (which can be …
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Stand well back, please
Im starting this blog up again. There may be oily gouts of smoke as I crank the handle. There may be the terrible smell of neglected machinery starting up for the first time, incinerating layers of dust and cobwebs and moss (apologies to anyone who likes spiders, moss or filth). There may be A Big N …
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Wrong, Wronger, Wrongest, Jon Gaunt.
Image: elmada. Jon Gaunt, Sun columnist and presenter, has been sacked after using the N-word (no, the other N-word) during an interview with a Redbridge councillor. Non-news, in a lot of ways. This kind of thing happens every five minutes to journalists who write material thats ill-thought-out …
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How To Not Fit Everything In
Ill keep this short, because I havent been as organised as I need to be to fit everything in. This post is about how its important to get organised, so you can fit everything in. Im still not very good at it. And now its important, because I have two part-time jobs and one of them is my Career. Chan …
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Another Good Reason For Chinese Students
Image: thejerk. Last year, I wrote about how wonderful Chinese students are. For the geographically challenged, I drew a map illustrating how China covers 28/30ths of the worlds surface, home to some 80 trillion people or 99.998% of the Earths population (if youre wondering, the same proportion of …
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The Worst Marketing Campaign In History?
So thats how they do it. Amazing. Next up, Im going to write 12.5 million posts asking for your money. Suckers.
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Le Week-end De Lenfer de Nez
I had it all planned out, this weekend. Ive got loads of work to do. And this weekend would be the How. It would be my salvation - my USS Nick Of Time appearing out of a wormhole / fog-bank, all guns blazing. This weekend was my Excaliber, my Stormbringer, my Magnum 45. (Punk). And then around Frida …
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WazzaaaAAAH?
President-Elect and Frank Sinatra impersonator Barack Obama (image: Joe Crimmings). Well now. That was quite fun. I stayed up most of the night, flicking between the New York Times and the BBC News maps (the former more detailed; the latter more prescient), watching a dismaying amount of Americans …
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And Elsewhere Once More
Talking about, wouldjabelieve, hat and coat racks. Back soon.
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Elsewhering Again
Here: Lovely bed beauty vs. bonkers bed madness. Artful chili subtlety vs. artless chili in-your-facery.
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