The other morning, I walked past a bloke from the 24-hour glazier fitting some temporary chipboard to the shop next to one of the matching kebab emporia, which meant stepping off the narrow pavement while not diving under a bus ( Read more... )

They're building a vast new shopping thingy in Bath, which will no doubt remain half-empty for a couple of years. It's made of steel and concrete and big low-loaders trundle up with great flat plates of Bathness that they bolt to the outside so it looks like the rest of the pretend buildings there. They could be making the same thing in a different ( Read more... )

(It's a Janitors B-side ( Read more... )

You can colour me moderately peeved. The local GP has had more trade out of me in the last four weeks than in the previous four years and I am now sucking down Erythromycin every few hours (pauses for Usenet Joke), the Saab failed its MOT on a couple of stupid things (a blown bulb and the alleged bendy-pipe between manifold and exhaust. Since the ( Read more... )

There are too many people.

There should be a cull.

We can begin with the poor fellows afflicted with distended testicles or suppurating penis or whatever other terrible accident forces them to sit on the tube with their knees at an angle of 45 degrees. Shooting the infection-site would be a mercy and put them out of our misery.

The clearly splendid types over at Lineout Records are giving away a(n) MP3 by the new model ELRmy (Yes, I read the NME in the 80s. I can handle it.) and it's very fine racket indeed. Howling guitars and lush production values. I am very much looking forward to seeing them in action on Friday night. (Is it sold out yet ( Read more... )

Entirely unsurprising goings-on concerning the eDonkey network: http://blogs.securiteam.com/index.php/archives/801Read more... )