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If anyone was interested the aforementioned gig has, oddly, moved from the Jericho to the Pub Oxford.

Sup. If anyone's interested, The Objections (not my fault this time) are playing an extremely short-notice gig tomorrow at the Jericho. As long as we get to practise tomorrow afternoon I daresay it should be a reasonably storming affair. Not sure about details yet, but I guess it'll kick off at 7:30 or something like that.

Hum. It's not often that things, especially political things, go just the way you want them to, so it's worth appreciating that this election result is as far as I can see pretty much perfect. Labour returned with a drastically weaker mandate but still very safe, and without either other party actually getting anywhere near government, but ( Read more... )

"You have to let go in a way you never have before. You have to go beyond your ego. To a higher place."

Toni Bentley on how she found enlightenment through sodomy in her book 'The Surrender: An Erotic Memoir'

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Unbelievably, this whole Spanish race scandal keeps going from awful to worse. I mean, when Wright-Philips first came on, it sounded like there was a small but very vocal minority making monkey noises when he was on the ball (and by the by, one thing I forgot to note last time was how heroically he performed under conditions that no player should ( Read more... )

Ahem. Obviously what I didn't get round to was pointing out that we always play crap in friendlies and that Spain too have a marvelous side - almost as elegant in their simple passing maneouvres as 70s Brazil or Italy today. I can honestly say though that I'd rather support a losing team than a winning one with supporters like that. I'm sure it' ( Read more... )

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Arafat thought close to deathForget this US election nonsense - this could be the worst or the best thing to happen to middle-eastern peace, and thus world peace, in decades. On the one hand his death could leave a power vacuum that would make the current situation look stable. On the other, while Arafat lives the peace process will almost ( Read more... )