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The End
A few weeks ago I wrote some erudite and fanciful post, which I never published. It was probably the best thing I've written in a while, in a literary sense at least, explaining why this journal is over. Saying this part of my life is over, and why ( Read more... ) -
The Feeling
Saints preserve us, I am actually seriously tempted to go to that dreadful club at the Astoria tonight, if only to see The Feeling doing a live PA.
Just got their album, and it's good, though so reminiscent of mid 80s soft rock that even if you haven't heard them, you'll swear you've heard some of those songs before. In a post-ironic kinda way, -
It's my birthday...
Oh, and it's my birthday on Friday. 5th January is always a shit time to have a birthday, falling as it does in the deathly post-New Year period, but at least it's on a Friday this year so I can celebrate properly ( Read more... ) -
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Hot on the heels of Augusto Pinochet, Saddam Hussein is on his way to whatever hell is reserved for mass-murdering dictators. Good riddance to him, but I didn't cheer in quite the same way I did with Pinochet. In Chile he was old news, a bitter thorn in the social consciousness, but his death was ultimately a footnote. Saddam's execution by ( Read more... ) -
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Merry Christmas everyone ( Read more... ) -
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Breaking news...
Now the bodies of missing sex workers have been found in woods near Ipswich, police have finally released details of who the serial killer might be.
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Very nice evening. Had my friends Mike and Vicky over. I made a festive risotto with roasted butternut squash, liberally sprinkled with parmesan slivers and bright red pomegranate seeds. I got the pomegranate idea from Nigella Lawson. iejw, I'm sorry. But it looked very pretty, and my guests were hugely impressed ( Read more... ) -
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Feeling SO much better today, having done nothing much else but rest. For some reason I've been having terrible nausea since the middle of last week, which getting stressed and drinking and going out a lot this weekend didn't much help ( Read more... ) -
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Yay! Augusto Pinochet is dead! About fucking time. I hope he sufferred just like all those people he sent to be tortured and secretly murdered ( Read more... )
