Monthly Archives: February 2004

itchy and scratchy

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

This is just incredibly tasteless and not in the least bit funny. However, since none of my readers will ever have experienced anything remotely similar, and this applies especially to the clerical ones, I thought I should link to it Continue reading →

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obscure injoke

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

The last really big row I saw on the Well before I left was caused by a pompous imperialist American called Richard Bennett who also signed on his wife, [emendation: she was signed on before him] and used her account … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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good sex in films

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

I finally went to see Lost in Translation today, and the scene where he wakes up next to the cocktail pianist is one of the funniest, saddest, and best-acted things I have ever seen on screen. No nudity; no writhing; … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Ad script for the RIAA

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

Was Satan the father of file-sharing? Listen to his own words on apple-sharing. Then decide. ‘O fruit divine, Sweet of thyself, but much more sweet thus cropt, Forbidd’n here, it seems, as onely fit For Gods, yet able to make … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Fire

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

By the standards of the middle classes we are not rich at all but it is astonishing how well free trade lets us live. Last night I ate a plate of mussels for supper, and then some bread and cheese … Continue reading → Continue reading →

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Memo to Downing Street

Posted on February 1, 2004 by acb

“Unfounded allegation” is two words, not one. Andrew Gilligan’s allegations were false. They were not unfounded. Continue reading →

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