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I’ll punch a donkey in the streets of Galway

Cast - Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Barbican Theatre, November 13, 14, 15 review to follow

En Vogue

This is my most favourited picture on Flickr. Sixty-one people, mostly from Qatar or the United Arab Emirates, have clicked the little star since I uploaded it in 2005. It has only around 1300 pageviews. It is my most favourited picture not because of my photographic skills, or my wonderful eye, ...

Turkish delight

Canal Parade, Amsterdam Gay Pride 2007. View the whole set.

Post office

Me: 'I'd like to send this package to Greece, please.' Woman weighs package and looks at pricing table. Then she starts giggling nervously. Woman: 'I'm not sure if Greece is in Europe or not.'

Joss Whedon accepts Equality Now award

"Because you're still asking that question".

KITT, scan my vital signs

Sad but true: I'm refreshing my favourite bittorrent page every few minutes, because I want to see David Hasselhoff cry on American Idol. right. now. As for other bad television... I have succumbed to Big Brother (UK). Oh noes! My only previous experience with the show was the finale of BB 1 ...

I am not of Orange

Hadn't been in town for Queensday since... well, since before I moved here. Didn't take long before I remembered why I never bother. Queensday is when everybody: 1. sells crap in the streets 2. drinks a lot of crap beer 3. eats a lot of crap food 4. wears orange Orange is probably my least favourite ...

Not spared

Oh heavenly salvation our precious city has been spared the storm is passed and vanished above us the storm has ended and Death steps back into the water once more Oh heavenly salvation Oh heavenly salvation (iTunes served me this Kurt Weill song just a minute ago. I'd forgotten all about it.)

Mr Butcher, dirty bollocks

Utrechtsestraat, Saturday afternoon. I'm in search of pork belly but the luxury butcher is all out of pig. 'We had to send it back, it wasn't right.' Poor piggie. Murdered to death and then discarded. I try my luck at the butcher on the other side of the road. Inside, it's like going ...

Sorry, but I hadn’t heard it before

Comic Sans walks into a bar and asks for a beer. Says the bartender: "Sorry, we don't serve your type here." (Heard on my new favourite BBC programme, The Culture Show. Must get that new Francis Bacon book.)

November 19th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 18th through November 19th

These are my links for November 18th through November 19th: 15 Helpful In-Browser Web Development Tools | Developer's Toolbox | Smashing Magazine - MySpace.com - Tony Christie - UK - Pop / Rock - www.myspace.com/tonychristie - I really need to learn to prettify myspace pages properly. This looks really good. Facebook ...
November 19th 2008
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I’ll punch a donkey in the streets of Galway

Cast - Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Drifting and Tilting - The Songs of Scott Walker Barbican Theatre, November 13, 14, 15 review to follow
November 18th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 17th through November 18th

These are my links for November 17th through November 18th: Ginger Anyhow: Text Messages - Embroidered text messages, mapping a relationship Marco Grob - Photographer - Beautiful portraits Steven Wells: Indie music could learn a lot from American Idol | Music | guardian.co.uk - "In real pop, pretty people who can't sing get ...
November 13th 2008
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Bookmarks for November 11th through November 13th

These are my links for November 11th through November 13th: BBC NEWS | World | Americas | US Elections 2008 | 'Secret' Obama code name revealed - But known as POTUS to the rest of us. e-solex - want BBC NEWS | Health | 'Love handles' raise death risk - Ah well at ...
November 11th 2008
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Proudly presenting zie.nl

Zie.nl, the new Dutch video sharing site that I (and our team) have been working on for the last 4 months has just gone live. We had cake to celebrate. www.zie.nl Yes, we realise it's teal. No, we're not that keen on it either. Yes, we'll work on it.

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