Giant Rats in Bradford
Ratzilla shot on a Bradford estate! This is some scary assed stuff. Apparently some local yokels were out ‘ratting’ when a small group of huge rats ran out. The inbred … Read More
Tag: life
Freedom of speech
As you may or may not have noticed, this website was down for a week. Basically, I said a few things about someone that I was perfectly justified to say. … Read More
How to survive Armageddon
Sick bastard that I am, I often fantasize about the end of the world. Obviously it would mean billions would die, there’d be no more internet, no restaurants, no pubs, … Read More
Shunt at London Bridge.
Last night I went to a bar/club/theatre/art/performance/thing called Shunt with my wife and some creative friends. It’s a very difficult place to categorize except to say that it’s fucking brilliant. … Read More
Art and Culture versus work
“When a man is tired of London he is tired of life; for there is in London all that life can afford.” So said Samuel Johnson. He wrote the dictionary … Read More
Climate change
Pretty heavy topic eh? I was going to try and lighten this entry a bit with an amusing picture or two. I scoured the internet and discovered that the only … Read More
The Thai wedding.
Well it’s all almost over. After a month in Thailand, the return to Blighty and darkness and televisual toil beckons once more. No mysterious benefactors have stepped out of the … Read More
I got married… again! This time Bangkok Buddhist Style
Yes, I’ve done it again. Same lady, but different country and very different ceremony. So my blog and review output has been somewhat lacking. Apologies for this but I have … Read More
Belgium, Luxembourg, and the Galaxy.
Well, I’m back. I apologize for not writing recently but I have been on a minor European tour. First off, I’ve been to Bruges. In Belgium. Like the feckin’ movie. … Read More
Broken Britain
Except it isn’t really is it? I just felt like stealing a headline that appears in nearly every Daily Mail issue ever. What is pretty fucked though is the underground … Read More
Work is intruding on my social life
I’ve been up to fuck all recently as I just seem to work all the time. As I work freelance and am going on holiday to Thailand on the 10th … Read More
Give Dan Brown a break.
Life has been busy recently – but mostly in a good way. I haven’t had much time to review things as I have to actually read or see or play … Read More
Computer games are good for you
I have been meaning to write about this topic before, as it is clearly a topic close to my heart. Not really because I give a flying fuck about about … Read More
The Metro is now my sole source of news
There used to be a lot more newspapers lying around the places I work but that seems to have changed. Now it just seems to be the Metro which I … Read More
The Notting Hill Carnival
I don’t know why I don’t really like the Notting Hill carnival. It’s probably that it just seem a lot of grief – crowds, shuffling slowly through dancing people, piles of rubbish and a massive walk to the tube. All for very little reward.
So What’s Been Happening?
Because of all this I haven’t done much. I read the paper a lot. So er, here’s what’s been happening I found mildly interesting over the past few days:
The great Swine Flu conspiracy
In China Mexicans were quarantined and in Hong Kong a hotel got blockaded. Eqypt threatened to kill all its pigs and in Afghanistan, there was talk of killing the country’s sole hog. They only have one in the whole country apparently, which is a bit weird.
Science fiction looks different these days
In my youth alien planets were desert but today they are forests. To be specific, in my youth they looked like the Vasquez rocks outside LA and now they look like a Canadian forest.
Prostitutes and Burlesque Dancers vs the Evil Council
I missed two marches in London I would like to have seen.