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Bert, aged 22 = pompous arsehole
While running a search for an old email, I came across this little gem. It’s a letter I had written to The Times way back in January 2006.
Christ, I was a smarmy dick.
Sir,
John O’Dea (Teenage Sex,…
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Insta-Life?
It’s sometimes hard to remember just what makes you you, when everything around you is geared towards making you forget.
“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don’t matter and those
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Plane Stupid
So, I missed a flight.
Actually, scratch that. ‘Missed a flight’ implies some sort of attempt at catching it. You read those three words and think of alarm clocks that don’t go off, mad scrambles to the airport and the…
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Apathy and Its Demon Children
My dear friend – and partial namesake – Richard Borg
sent me this missive a couple of days ago. Part confessional, part
manifesto, I recognise many of his frustrations and suspicions
as my own. The words below are…
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A Cynic’s Guide to Language in the 21st Century Economy
I’ve been guilty of neglecting The Vestibule this week. Call it a post-divorce hangover. Or you could simply attribute it to me having more pressing things to get out of the way.
Either way – while searching for an old…
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Ittra minghand il-Mullah
Note: The funny squiggles below are what is known as ‘Maltese’ . For more information, ask elsewhere.
Intqal hafna – wisq – fuq dan l-imbierek divorzju. Jiena u nikteb dawn il-kliem, ghandi quddiemi sitt pamphlets li ntbatu…
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No beta-carotene thanks, we’re Danish
Marmite and other banned foodstuffs
It would appear that Denmark has banned Marmite, on the grounds that it goes against controversial 2004 legislation which outlaws foodstuffs supplemented with vitamins and other nutrients. Marmite is in some illustrious…
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Comic Book Heroes
A suitably trivial Friday afternoon post
That Putin fella, what a (v)lad!
The comic isn’t a million miles from the truth, if reports in the english-language media are to be believed.
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Trust me, I’m French (and powerful)
France’s culture of omerta’ has overstepped the mark
It’s been quite the week for Dominque Strauss-Kahn. I had always suspected that the IMF’s head honcho and pretender to Nicolas Sarkozy’s presidential crown might be a wanker. But…
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A Happy Family
Felt like writing some fiction last night. Had/have no idea where this was/is going, but found it enjoyable to write all the same. Will continue it at some further point in time.
He came in at just under…
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Recently I’ve been liking…
A selection of stuff that’s been hitting my mental mojo
Tunes
…Michael Kiwanuka’s new track ‘Tell Me a Tale’
…’County Line’ by Cass McCombs
…The one and only Jacques Dutronc
…The…
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An Ode to Gentlemen’s Thursdays
Join me in re-living the midweek event of 2011
The gentlemen they gathered
With the conservo as their hub
To the sound of beers cans crackling
They formed a gentlemen’s club
Bertu and Buttiru
Made quite the cleaning…
