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Monthly Archives: January 2007
By the pricks who trade in slums: something wicked this way comes
Two days ago I read that mortgage approvals had dropped in absolute terms by 12.5% in December 2006. Today it’s announced that home repossessions surged in 2006. In between those two news items, I received a surprise letter from Allen … Continue reading
Posted in commerce, correspondence, housing, intuition, opinion, society
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Säkkikissa, Padraig an Phoist and Superted
Ages ago now, bluedevi asked if anyone could find the more extramural aspects of their experience of children’s television on YouTube. As she says, we’ve all had those bloody canonical conver—do you remember The Adventure Game?—sations, so this would be … Continue reading
Posted in art, drawing, media, music, nu-media, past, rhys_gruff, television, time
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Too drunk to pluck
Last night (and much of this morning’s early bits) was spent at j4 and addedentry‘s housewarming. Despite their rashness in implicitly inviting all two million or so LiveJournal users, the house was merely comfortably crowded and, eventually, warmed. By 3am … Continue reading
Posted in diary, experience, instruments, intoxication, music, parties, person
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The freedom to be an idiot; for now, at any rate
You think you know people; you think you can trust your demographic; and then a bunch of them start saying witless, ill-conceived rubbish like this, in favour of ID cards. I’m stunned that rational people don’t see the harm in … Continue reading
Flugzeit macht schrei
Congratulations, incidentally, to anyone flying this year: you’ll be complicit in the deaths of over forty people in the recent storms. That’s not strictly true, of course, but I’d like you to think of it as a hard-hitting metaphor. Pinning … Continue reading
Posted in aeroplanes, climate, death, environment, location, opinion, person, rants, transport, weather
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How cool is now?
You all know the arguments against Big Brother. You all know the arguments in favour of Big Brother. I won’t patronise you by rehearsing them here, each with its own bullet point. Of more interest is the tone that airing … Continue reading
Posted in class_warfare, cliques, media, people, privacy, race, society, surveillance, technology, television
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It all hinges on me
This morning one of those well-advertised 80mph gusts swept the car door almost entirely off the rest of the car. Being as mildly obsessive as I am mildly Aspergery, I’d filled the boot nearly a year ago now with plenty … Continue reading
Stick it in your priest-hole
Cat and Girl know how to get my juices flowing: one-on-one wrestling between a priest and a rabbi. There needs to be an addendum, though, and I’m surprised that C&G, with its emphasis on the meta, didn’t provide it. If … Continue reading
Posted in art, belief, comparative_religion, drawing, hilarious_jokes, opinion, understanding
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How do you smear a problem like a Crapper?
I can’t think of a single way of insulting someone with a name like Pete Crapper, that the local registry office hasn’t already far surpassed. He and his sons were the subject of the text printed on the workie van … Continue reading
Posted in cars, experience, safety, transport
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A hand, a fist, hoocha hoocha hoocha, Panama!
Borders has one of the best selections of obscure, niche-market magazines in Oxford. For all its multinational rapacity, and its attempts to package, brand, pre-chew and mulch down literature that a bookshop ought to treat with at least a little … Continue reading
Posted in amerika, columnists, establishment, gossip, hoi_polloi, journalism, lies, media, opinion, politics, society, truth, understanding, war
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Small Beds and Large Bears 