Tag: Life

Never shy of jumping on a bandwagon nearly a year after it closes its UK operation, I’ve been bidding on Tivo PVRs (‘Personal Video Recorders’) at eBay. Do you think…

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Juliet asked me to download some of their stuff so that she could be fifteen again for a while so I did and now I’m speechless at how we let…

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I’m in the kitchen washing up and watching Twyla Tharp‘s staggeringly beautiful In The Upper Room on BBC4 ??a piece from 1986 with a score by Philip Glass (They’re having…

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Enigmatic Paul Murphy will draw your dog (or your car, or anything really) from a photograph (or from a photograph of somebody else’s dog if you like). Intriguing rumour has…

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I’m at Demos‘ tenth birthday party and I’m bending the ear of Geoff Mulgan ? founder of Demos and, since 1999, a top man in the Number 10 Policy Unit…

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The 14 year-old in me (so that’s about 1977) really wants one of these instead of one of these (nice cutaway here). I am so suburban (or maybe one of…

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They don’t have much in common, but they’re all gone and the world is measurably poorer without them: Johnny Cash, Hugo Young and Edward Said (an outstanding and honest obit…

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I’m thinking of growing a moustache.

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Drag racing is unbelievably noisy, toxic (“Remember, ladies and gentlemen, cover your children’s eyes as we spray the track…”), decidedly unsophisticated and about the least green pursuit I’ve ever witnessed…

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Dunwich, in Suffolk. Beautiful…

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