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Music Stunt 2009

Stunt 2009: Week 19 – The Band

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Karen’s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.* Didn’t think much of this playlist first time through, until I got to the final track, which really woke me up. I’ve listened to it quite a few times since, […]

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Music Stunt 2009

Stunt 2009: Week 17 – Tindersticks

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Karen’s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.* It’s been quite a busy week, with fewer listening opportunities than usual. So far, with these stunt posts, I’ve reached the end of the week and been happy to move […]

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Music Stunt 2009

Stunt 2009: Week 13 – Africa calling

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Karen’s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.* Is anybody actually using these Spotify playlists? Cos if not, I’ll just save myself the effort. 1. **Pata Pata** Miriam Makeba – such a jolly and uplifting song, I can’t […]

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Displeasure In The News

Relaxing road laws could create 1,650,000 jobs

Experts will today present a proposal to the Government that road laws should be relaxed in the interests of increasing employment and stimulating the economy. Professor Bob Falconfucker bellowed “My colleagues and I have spent the last three months running simulations in The Raccoon And Firebucket, and our findings have been quite surprising. We found […]

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Music Stunt 2009

Stunt 2009: Week 1 – Grateful Dead

*This is a companion piece to a similarly-themed article on Karen’s site which, all things being equal, should be published at roughly the same time.* 1. **Dark Star** from Live Dead Some crushingly long prog rock twattery that’s 95% guitar solo. This does absolutely nothing for me at all. I like my guitar solos to […]

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About Me Meander

Aunt Rachel

Today I went to my Aunt Rachel’s funeral. I wasn’t quite sure what I was doing there, to be honest. She was never interested in me, my sister or my son, and I was never interested in her. There were no specific things about her that I disliked, we just had nothing in common. I […]

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Displeasure Photos

The one problem with the Nikon D40

I bought my Nikon D40 from a camera shop. I spent a fair amount of time talking to the expert behind the counter, discussing what I would get if I were to buy a more expensive camera. The expert was telling me how a more expensive camera might have more megapixels, it will be more […]

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Meander

A startlingly interesting bike ride

Usually the number of interesting things that happens during my 4 mile commute is some non-negative integer n where n = n mod 2. But today, three interesting things happened! Well, not that interesting, but there were three of them! 1. There’s a decomposing animal which I have been monitoring since Friday. On Friday it […]

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Moleskine Unboxing

The manilla jiffy bag! Gasp! It’s so fucking exciting!

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Gardening

I mowed the lawn and the lawn lost

*Google says that I’m not the first person to use this “I fought the lawn…” pun in a blog post title. Ah well, you win some, you lose some.* Back in March, we had a lawn installed. As the grass gradually got longer and longer, we realised that we could not delay the purchase of […]