Author Archives: adrian
This little piggy went to business school…
And that’s not all. Being a meat-eater myself, I might not have come across Vegan Porn if it weren’t for the link in MemeMachineGo!, one of my regular reads. But I did. And there I learned about marketing pork to … Continue reading
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Cool to be a beefy lass
Randomly following links, lily-padding from blog to blog (like a blogfrog, naturally), I came across Cool 2B Real. The cutesy graphics and predominance of pastel colours looked like a typical young girls magazine, but the rather saccharine text (“… strive … Continue reading
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The voice on the Tannoy tells me to Hoover up the Biros
Call me naive, but I like it when people I admire and respect keep on doing more things that make me admire and respect them. In most cases, I’ve been lucky. Even when my favourite musicians, authors, actors or even … Continue reading
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Pax Romana – a dissident’s view
The “Pax Romana”, I’ve just learned, ran from about 27BC to 180AD. Given current events and the alleged plans for a “Pax Americana”, it’s interesting to note how Tacitus described the Pax Romana… To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these … Continue reading
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Mah-Jongg, Mercury Rev and midnight snacks
This evening, Nicola and I made the 45-second trek (!) to our local, the Robin Hood, where we met our friends Lindsey and Howard. A couple of months ago, we gave Lindsey a Mah-Jongg set for her birthday, and this … Continue reading
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New Chris Morris short film
I am, it must be said, a really quite hopeless Chris Morris fanboy. I have more of his work than I have time to watch or listen to. But that’s good. As is the news of the DVD release of … Continue reading
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Another me in a different world
Funny what you find when you go through your webstats. One of the referrers to my site was from the personal site of a guy named Ami Mukerjee. He’s a law student from New Jersey. His site looks uncannily like … Continue reading
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Congestion charge
Also on a political theme, but in a far more localised sense, central London’s Congestion Charge began today. Now, as a non-driving, willing user of public transport, I’m prepared to admit I may be too biased to have a balanced … Continue reading
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Marching
Well, the real political effect will be difficult to identify, possibly even non-existant, but the anti-war march in London seemed to go pretty well. The atmosphere was friendly and inclusive and there was a gratifyingly broad range of class, race … Continue reading
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America, fallacy of WW2 comparisons
Brian Eno talks of how everything that was great about the USA is being eroded by their bunker mentality. (From Time Magazine, quoted by Robert Garvey in the alt.fan.frank-zappa newsgroup) Ben Hammersley, meanwhile, points out the stupidity of those who … Continue reading
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