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Thursday, 24 October 2013

Here’s a case for making out why we’re in the Golden Age Of Bullshit. Or how it is all-too-easy for us to kid ourselves.

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There was a void in my life. Damages had finished, and I needed to fill the void. Ray Donovan did so for a week or two, but that has only be...
Sunday, 6 October 2013

Woodstock? Just more proof, if proof were needed, of mankind's infallible tendency to delude itself (and then some)

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The not-so-astounding news I have just read on the BBC News website is that tickets for Glastonbury 2014 have already sold out and have done...
Friday, 4 October 2013

How do you overcome an addiction? Simple: develop another. (But read right to the end to understand just what the fuck I’m talking about)

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First there was The Sopranos. Others might care to cite Six Foot Under (or whatever it’s called) and they might well be right. But as this i...
Sunday, 29 September 2013

Reunited after all these years, though sadly not with the girl, but the song which consoled me

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It was 1983 or 1984 (almost 30 years ago I realise to my horror as I write this), and I had just moved into my own house, a small two-bedroo...
Tuesday, 24 September 2013

Who wants to buy a new motor? Not me, though I might well have done by now when I tot up the dough my cars have cost me in just under a month

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It is a standing joke in my family that I have a fatal attraction for duff motors (as in cars). There is a some truth in that, but I would l...
Saturday, 31 August 2013

An unexpected but very, very pleasant sentimental journey. I won’t say ‘to my roots’ because that would be bollocks, but there was something of that about it. And a rather odd tale as to why my father was nicknamed The Spy (Der Spion) by my many relatives in that part of the woods.

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I don’t think I’ve yet really done justice to my trip to Germany in what I’ve written. OK, so my stay there was extended from just three day...

My how time passes (or from baby poo to first driving lesson)

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Altogether now: aahhh, isn’t it sweet. Well, it is for me. Not many months ago, it seems, I was wiping my baby daughter’s arse, then putting...
Monday, 26 August 2013

The joy of breaking down and needing a new starter motor while abroad, but thank the Lord for relatives, even if most of them are several times removed

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In Germany, though as things have turned out, in Germany for rather longer than I had planned. My niece, my sister’s oldest child, was marri...
Wednesday, 21 August 2013

Let’s hope the US courts see sense and let off Bradley Manning with nothing more serious than a slap on the wrist and the advice next time to look before he leaps

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UPDATE (on Aug 22): I understand that Bradley Manning was sentenced to 35 years, but could be out within ten, and that he now feels he is re...
Tuesday, 20 August 2013

Turn down the sneering, the natives are restless. Or why Frey and Henley are as good as Fagen and Becker any day (and aren’t quite as up themselves to boot)

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I’ve long liked Steely Dan and I also like The Eagles, though I have heard far more - well, everything Steely Dan have recorded, but not eve...