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Yearly Archives: 2002
these people are sick
But their sickness isn’t obvious. Continue reading
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feeling strange
One of those odd little moments of equilibrium in freelance life. I think I have done everything I should have for the moment: a profile and two book reviews for the Guardian; an enormous mass of book corrections and acknowledgements. … Continue reading Continue reading
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talking to morons
I wnet to get my hair cut yesterday and when I got home my wife and daughter laughed more usual. It turns out the hairdresser has done her best, with very defective materials, to give me a mullet. Behind my … Continue reading Continue reading
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oh shit
The only piece of hard information I ever got from Greil Marcus had to be this. Warren Zevon’s dying. Continue reading
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I hate libertarians
Because they always end up worshipping lawless power (and also becasue they’re arrogant little pricks). So Declan McCullough’s PR for the Cato Institute is a reliable source of irritaiton. Most recently, he found an economist to argue that Linux was … Continue reading Continue reading
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journalist sacked update
Perhaps it couldn’t have happened to a better man. or a nicer paper: cop this for a piece of grotesque moralising: Continue reading
oh, Yuck!
The front page of today’s Telegraph is disturbing for many reasons. There is a huge colour photograph of an apocalyptic figure blowing his horn in front of a bonfire: it shows “Andrew Brown, joint master of the Saltergate Hunt.” Well, … Continue reading Continue reading
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teach them English
How do you say to a customer, “Sorry, it’s a bug. We don’t know when we’ll get around to fixing it?” Not like EMusic, to whom I had complained that their MP3s don’t have a full v1 tag, and always … Continue reading Continue reading
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journalist sacked
for fucking? I’ll never complain that there’s no new news again. Continue reading
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seduction
Listening on headphones last night to Sympathy for the Devil in a state of elevated insomnia, brought on by the consumption of trout and grappa, and a subsequent low-class drunken argument about Nobel prizes with Dr Wilkie. Perhaps it was … Continue reading Continue reading
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