Broadcasting

Books,Film,General,Music,Net hate,Net joy,TV 25 January 2012 | 0 Comments

Hypocrisy is a wonderful thing, and thanks to the medium of social networking, it is a much easier thing to achieve. Every time Facebook chisels away at the privacy settings of the least private private network in the world, or Google adds another prohibitively anti privacy line to its terms and conditions, I do the [...]

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Doomed to Repeat

Football,General,News,Politics 9 January 2012 | 0 Comments

After the utter mindfuckery that was the worldwide news in 2011, you would be forgiven for hoping that absolutely nothing happens this year, that 2012 would be just a nice gentle, perhaps somewhat English affair. People not doing a lot, grumbling weakly about the smallest of inconveniences and then retiring to a nice cup of [...]

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11/12

Admin Stuff,General 31 December 2011 | 1 Comment

Ok, so I can’t resist it. The end of year review is like catnip to bloggers, even though nobody really gives a rat’s arse about my views about the year. Mind you if I start thinking like that then I’d never manage to get another blog post out again. (Stop crossing your fingers there at [...]

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30dsc day 28 – a song that makes you feel guilty

30 day song challenge,Music 29 November 2011 | 0 Comments

Song 28, Colour Haze – Tempel. I’ve been putting this one off for a while now, because quite frankly I don’t know if any music makes me feel particularly guilty. I suppose the intention in this task is to see if there’s any music that causes a memory recall for something bad you did. But [...]

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Leveson and Speed

General 28 November 2011 | 0 Comments

I don’t know if you’re the same as me but I’ve been fairly obsessively following the Leveson inquiry into the practices and ethics (or relative lack thereof) of our ‘Gawd Bless Em’ national press. The testimonies offered by the likes of the McCanns has been well served elsewhere, but just as interesting as the enquiry [...]

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Look at me I’m all shiny and new!

Admin Stuff,Blood on the Motorway,General 15 November 2011 | 1 Comment

The more astute of you will have noticed that this here blog has had a shiny new redesign, and is all sparkling and new. Unless of course your general method of entrance to this blog is through an RSS feed, in which case this blog post will look exactly the same as the last one. [...]

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An Afternoon With Jimmy

General 6 November 2011 | 2 Comments

I haven’t blogged for a while but there’s nothing quite like the death of a celebrity that you have an anecdote about to bring a blogger back to his keyboard. I’ve written this tale before, so forgive me if I recount again the tale of when I was put into a headlock by an elderly [...]

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Gym Films 3: Tokyo Drift

Exercise,Film 11 October 2011 | 0 Comments

After my last post about discographies (go here if you haven’t read it, you a bad bad person) it seems somewhat appropriate that this week’s thrilling instalment of Gym Films is in itself a kind of Discography, except for films instead of albums, and Vin Diesel’s muscles rather than songs. I saw a review (by [...]

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Discography

Begging,Music 10 October 2011 | 3 Comments

I spend most of my day with one headphone in my ear, which is obviously preferable to spending the day with no headphones in my ear. Sometimes I go hog wild and put two in. Throughout the day I am free to listen to music whilst I do all the work type things that I [...]

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Lists and Learning

Demon Pigeon,General,Learning,Music,Writing 7 October 2011 | 2 Comments

Last night I braved a downpour so severe I could barely make out my own headlights on the road ahead to make my way towards a modern building in an esteemed seat of learning, and found myself sitting in a classroom for the first time in over a decade. I was surprised to see that [...]

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