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Rain Dogs
It could be any city, but I've always thought of it as New York ( Read more... ) -
The Age of Adz
I wrote this for Twitter's weekly Listening Club, on the week where it was my turn to choose an album everyone would have to listen to, and I chose Sufjan Stevens' challenging "The Age of Adz ( Read more... ) -
The Inner You
Apparently I wrote this back in 2006. A fragment of a story which I never completed; seemed quite fitting to the season, so i reproduce it here ( Read more... ) -
Ginger's and Jamie's
Highly enjoyable Friday night out with Liz, my sister Lucy and her husband/my brother-in-law Jamie. The plan for the evening had originally revolved around the mythical Digbeth Dining Club, themed food vans in a Digbeth Warehouse serving up gourmet fare. We decided to start the evening off with cocktails first, at the bar "Ginger's" on Newhall St ( Read more... ) -
Christmas Tidings
So let's just imagine that December brought with it several insightful blog entries from me about Christmas, because I meant to write them - honestly, I did - but I guess I was having too much fun actually enjoying the month to get down to it. Or I was too lazy. Yeah, there is that ( Read more... ) -
Season Select
Halloween celebration/commemoration: Completed
Christmas celebration/commemoration: Booting up ...
Seasonal Playlists: READY. PRESS START TO PLAY!
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The Iron Lady (some spoilers)
Liz wanted us to go and see The Iron Lady. There's nothing wrong with a film existing about a person you don't admire, after all, is there? Hitler's been in loads of films, and the most recently prominent, Downfall, was really popular and led to a humourous Youtube meme. There's nothing saying that the film is going to come down pro-Thatcher and ( Read more... ) -
Something Remains
I sit here in one of Birmingham's independent coffee-shops. This one has WiFi, and so I have brought along my laptop to which I occasionally pay attention between moves of almost-Scrabble on my phone device and ploughing through the stack of newspapers to my right (it has been a newspaper-heavy week for me. I tend to buy one newspaper a week ( Read more... ) -
Productive
The next couple of weekends are busy for us. Next weekend we're off down south to see Liz's family (and possibly some other friends, if we have any spare time). The weekend after that we have other friends coming to stay with us and we may be out shopping with them in Birmingham. The weekend after that (the last before Christmas), we may be having ( Read more... )