Gordon Ramsay is my new hero. He's the Jeremy Clarkson of the cooking world, and Hell's Kitchen has become my Monday-night televisual staple.

Speaking of, here's Ramsay's visit to the "decidedly penis-shaped house" (a lighthouse on the Isle of Man) of the "multi-media gobshite" in an episode of The F-Word earlier this month ( Read more... )

The other day I received in my change a one-dollar note with the words "Track me at www.wheresgeorge.com" stamped on it in red. I was hoping that, aside from its journey from one of the four Mint facilities, it had travelled far and wide since it was branded, but sadly no:One-Dollar Bill, Serial# L26946165L ( Read more... )

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Translating the Isles' jocular "What are you like?" into an English (US) equivalent is proving rather difficult ( Read more... )

I recently procured The Bluetones' best-of, A Rough Outline: The Singles & B-Sides 95 - 03 (the 60-track limited edition, natch), and very pleased I am with it thus far ( Read more... )

Did I miss a few moments of silence this morning while a fairly hefty slice of the world's bloggers struggled to come up with a reason against al-Zarqawi's perishing?

I did? Damn you, work.

Had to share these three photos of this past weekend's earlier-than-usual trek to Acadia.

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Via usemycomputerThree factory workers have been arrested for stealing hundreds of BMW and Mercedes cars, piece by piece. Over a period of six years, the suspects smuggled millions of car parts out of the plant in Munich, by hiding them in their clothes and bags, before clocking off their shifts. The parts were then stored and reassembled at a ( Read more... )

I had my first experience of a drive-thru (we're too lazy to spell it in full) fast-food establishment (Dunkin' Donjitos, to be precise) last weekend while in Maine. (In my defence, I thought it was drive-thru-only, but it was pointed out to me, all too late, that it was a walk-in as well ( Read more... )

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