Blackpool permanently enjoys a strange type of fame. There is the Blackpool that is made out of brick, concrete and rock that sits on the Lancashire coast. This Blackpool is run-down, often wet, cold, and full of desperate drunks and yet… is also surreal, beautiful and weirdly funny [10p Tea virtually demands to be heardContinue reading “Blackpool”
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Ghosts in rooms with the lights out
With The Lights Out, the long overdue Nirvana box-set finally has a release date: November 22nd 3 CDs and a DVD, including versions of all the apocryphal songs that you can glimpse on the file sharing networks… This month’s Q magazine has a decent page-long review. There’s a lousy official site here, and this siteContinue reading “Ghosts in rooms with the lights out”
London: Secret Level Code
London is a secret city. The maps lie about it. The first time you discover this – probably the way every first-time Londonder discovers the maps are wrong – is when you abandon the tube map for the first time (like a tube failure forcing you to walk to the next nearest station…) The TubeContinue reading “London: Secret Level Code”
Bibliography
I feel like a member of Greenpeace forced to drive to a Hummer everywhere for a month, only it’s not the scarcity of fossil fuels causing me concern… it’s time! The clock is ticking, and it’s not quite as much fun as it looked in 24. Although I don’t have terrorists after me, but IContinue reading “Bibliography”
Cut Out And Keep
Been another busy week – secret plans have been ticking over, plenty to do at work, and my Japanese abilities are gaining critical mass… or not. I have however, been learning to tell the time! Ima nan-ji desu ka? (Incidentally, if you want to see some Japanese critical mass, have a look at this lovelyContinue reading “Cut Out And Keep”
I knew it all along…
“Alex, Your ideal job is a Clown.” Want to know your destiny? Click here for the highly accurate and in depth (ahem) “Job predictor”. original
The world through someone else’s eyes
Just a quick post today – life contains to be busy, and I’ve still not got a new camera, as the Optio S4i has been phased out, while its successor, the 5 megapixel S5i, has yet to show up as available. However, a couple of photo related links, both from excellent gadget weblog Engadget. ClickContinue reading “The world through someone else’s eyes”
The Ossuary at Sedlec: Gone but never forgotten
Back in the Spring I visited Prague. As everyone says, it is wonderful. It’s an incredibly popular place to go for one of these sexy “city break” holidays (strangely sexy when you consider it’s just saying “a holiday that’s shorter than you’d like and tries to cram in as much as usual). One of theContinue reading “The Ossuary at Sedlec: Gone but never forgotten”
CHE: Infamy, Infamy, They’ve… ALL… got it in for… me
I’m posting this because of some vague sense of completism that is probably a left over from my brief infatuation with Panini stickers. Because this comes via the ever-marvellous Boing Boing, so everyone in the world ever has seen it already. But it is a very good t-shirt, so I shouldn’t exclude it for simplyContinue reading “CHE: Infamy, Infamy, They’ve… ALL… got it in for… me”
The Only Cubist Lampost In The World(TM)
Having problems getting hold of a camera at the moment (deceitful internet sites claiming to have stock and then turning out to be mistaken…) So I’ve been sorting through some slightly older photos. I took this when I went to Prague in the spring. It is exactly what the title suggests. There are some more,Continue reading “The Only Cubist Lampost In The World(TM)”
The Wired Jester 