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Monthly Archives: January 2006
Flying Dog vs Metal Cat
I often lie awake at night, wondering to myself – “who would win a fight out of a flying dog and a metal cat?” Let the jury decide: FLYING DOG METAL CAT So, who wins? Cast your vote via the … Continue reading
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Squirrels on Crack
Squirrels on Crack Originally uploaded by Deadbeat Dad. I love the ‘how a squirrel might look nibbling on a rock of crack’ callout. Tweet This
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Our Disco Podcasts
My favourite night out – And Did We Mention Our Disco? – which happens every Friday at my favourite tiny underground club with a killer soundsystem, cheap beer and lovely, cosmopolitan clientele – Plastic People in London’s fashionable Shoreditch – … Continue reading
YouTube
YouTube is awesome. It’s, like, Flickr, for video! That is to say, for non-geeks, it is a social-tagging enabled video sharing and hosting website. So you can upload a video you have made (or just have lying around…) and then … Continue reading
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Word to the wise
Overheard recently in the Soul Tree club in Cambridge, from one of those West African guys who set up a little hand-towel and After Shave/Cologne concession in the toilet of nightclubs, as he liberally sprayed a slightly bemused punter pretty … Continue reading
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Mini Me Machine
So I had this brilliant idea on the train this morning. Really, it’s brilliant. You may be aware that you can now get your body 3D-scanned at a walk-in booth – I think Levi’s had a concession at Selfridges or … Continue reading
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Go Dana!
In a friends-and-relative are star authors (or going to be) type double whammy, massive (and somewhat belated) congratulations to my dear sister-in-law Dana whose Science Fantasy novel The Steam Magnate, which will be published in September by Aio Publishing. Being … Continue reading
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GO Ali!
Huge congratulations to our friend Ali Smith, who has won the Whitbread Novel Of The Year award, beating out such nonentities as Salman Rushdie and Nick Hornby, with her novel ‘The Accidental‘. I suppose you’ll be wanting that website now, … Continue reading
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Fish’N'Chips’N'Goths’N'Gravy
We spent New Year’s up in Whitby, North Yorkshire. Two things should be known about Whitby – it has the bestest Fish’N’Chips in the country (according to Rick Stein, at the Magpie Cafe, we tried them, and lo, they were … Continue reading
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My New Year’s Resolutions…
I’m telling you all these in the vain, misguided belief that it might actually make it incrementally more likely that I hold to at least a few of them. I’m a sucker for resolutions, me. Anyway, my resolutions are, in … Continue reading
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