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two adjacent stories on crap local paper at my parents':

'A Mid Devon terraced house hid a sophisticated system used to produce cannabis on a grand scale'
'Horticultural Haven set up: A growing generation at a Tiverton primary school have been busy flexing their green fingers'

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^ cale does 'hallelujah' with a string quartet. fucker OWNED that song; wonder if he performs it these days, considering.

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I have found the (so far) only pro-Israeli sentiment in Robert Fisk's 1286-page The Great War for Civilization: The Conquest of the Middle East. At one point, The Times' deputy editor says of a misleading Israeli public statement about the invasion of Lebanon: "What a bunch of fascists." Fisk, at this point, lets the reader know that Israel is not ( Read more... )

i have a job interview tomorrow. hence, i have gone from looking like this:

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best music review ever!!!!

"Of course, it is pretentious, there is noodling and it has some minor flaws, but Colin Meloy still writes damn good songs about rape"

i've been reading sapper's 'bulldog drummond', a book i've only ever encountered in its being maligned: i was fully expecting a monosyllabic bore who was only happy on days where he'd beaten up two or three ethnic stereotypes and indulged in a couple episodes of marital rape before breakfast. possibly (given the examples on wikipedia, if nothing ( Read more... )

children's show 'yo gabba gabba', but with actual gabba:

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i was too entertained by this; i should get off the internet.

shiela jeffreys has a new book out, on 'the political economy of the global sex trade' - it's called the industrial vagina - based on this and another book title (something like anticlimax: the sexual revolution and its discontents) i have developed a strong liking for her work ( Read more... )