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Poll 275/285

For $reasons some bright spark from the telly played an unexpected burst of 'Pop looks Bach'. As is usual I was taken with a feeling of mild terror and that odd shiver up the back that happens when you listen to something really very good. ('Do something right' by Arcwelder, f'rinstance. Or Autobahn or Kerosene or ( Read more... )

I have just been tangentially reminded of an odd interlude from the other month ( Read more... )

The Tom Gauld cartoon in the Guardian Review this week is a work of more than usual genius. Especially given the content of the last Review section. When I can find it on the interwebs, I shall link to same.

Elsewhere, the Obs. seems to have turned into a cunning PE parody of the Torygraph. Shame, that.

Someone's already written the satire/po-faced Randian homage (It's hard to tell the difference) where a tolerably long-lived corporatist, um, thing (state's wrong) embiggens itself by finding planets and uplifting a random species so they can be sold firearms and cheeseburgers, right?

It's a bit odd when places where I used to fix computers turn up on the UrbEx boards. A while ago, I wrote that "The past was something other people brought up because they were festering for an argument, while for me it was some kind of unravelling stair-carpet and as long as I kept moving forward, the unravelling wouldn't catch me up and pitch me ( Read more... )

Poll Subcultural revolutionaries

(Or perhaps even 'better known'. However, that implies an external value judgement which I would prefer to avoid.)

This doing bog-all business is becoming a little wearing. Not that I'm wishing for Interesting Times. Dear me, no. I suspect it would probably be much nicer were I doing sod-all in Cap Ferrat, rather than BS16. Still, there we are.


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