Author Archives: adrian
About time too
With the media frenzy over the past week, you’d think we were about to experience the Second Coming rather than a short period of frozen precipitation. It’s easier to be cynical about exaggerated snow reports when you live in (mostly) … Continue reading
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New music purchases
It’s been a bit of a music acquisition week so far. It’s also been one of those times when I wonder why I don’t do all my online shopping from US-based sites. Around a month ago, I ordered the DVD … Continue reading
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F’KIN A!
Bad news for fans of Beatles songs reinvented as Metallica songs. Beatallica, pioneers, trendsetters and global superstars in this sadly under-represented genre, have been issued with a cease-and-desist order (which you can read in PDF form). And no, it’s *not* … Continue reading
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Ugandan discussions and big balls
Fans of satirical/anti-sleaze/media-commentary magazine Private Eye may be interested in this site… Ugandan Discussions features cover scans of every issue of the Eye since 1961. Yes, even the really notorious one that WHSmiths refused to sell. [via BoingBoing] Elsewhere, a … Continue reading
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Lifestyle shopping for idiots
I wonder what she’d gone to buy… a JERKER computer desk, maybe? Or a KLUBBO coffee table? Or maybe just a few pairs of PLASTIS rubber gloves? Whatever, she’s pretty angry. Of course, that may be because a loved one … Continue reading
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Please give me back my news!
I grinned as I bought a copy of The Independent today. Instead of the usual front page layout, they had lots of boxes containing headlines and straplines to various major news stories, topped by the headline “HERE IS THE NEWS … Continue reading
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More carefully chosen amusement products for your leisure hour
I’m doing a lot of laughing this week, it seems. I’m still not entirely clear on where this originated (all links seem to lead to a David Miyamasu) or whether it’s really aimed at non-Christians like me, but I really … Continue reading
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We are Zogg
Found via jwz, this made me laugh a lot… My Little Golden Book About Zogg
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Senses working overtime
Esref Armagan paints pictures in oils. He is also blind and has been for the whole of his life. File this under “Next time I whinge about anything trivial, please slap me”.
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Televisual anticipation
http://www.trashbat.co.ck There’s a decent feature about Chris Morris (and ‘Nathan Barley’, the new comedy series he’s co-written with Charlie Brooker) in today’s Observer. One little factual error therein… Chris never “announced the death of Michael Heseltine” on Radio 1. His … Continue reading
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