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Aug 6, 2010, 7:00 pm
Two quick raps on the door. Landsman gets up, thinking it's going to be Berko.
"Hi, there," says the man at the door in American. "I don't think I've had the pleasure."
"Who are you?" Landsman says.
"Me is your burial societies," the man says in wretched but energetic Yiddish.
"Mr. Spade is here to ... Comment - Like
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Jul 16, 2010, 11:25 pm
[Exciting sexy new things are happening in regards to the blog. Watch this space. Or rather, ask me for a link to the other space and watch that instead.]
So lots of stuff is going on with the move and with me, so in lieu of a proper blog post, have a meme. It started with DeeDee Ramona, then passed... Comment - Like
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Jul 10, 2010, 6:33 am
Games as art. Oh dear. I keep coming back to this one, like the proverbial dog. Of course, the short answer from a gamer's perspective is that it doesn't matter. Regardless of what we call them, games can be fun, beautiful, uplifting, depressing, life-changing even. So why the frantic scrabbling aft... Comment - Like
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Jun 20, 2010, 10:18 pm
Danger, Will Robinson! This is going to be one of those posts. Long, angsty, self-obsessed, and more than a little incoherent. You may want to skip it if you don't have a lot of patience for me talking about how I've got, as the kids these days say, Issues. That is all.
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I don't feel well
I've ... Comment - Like
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Jun 18, 2010, 9:45 am
'You have to consider the possibility that God does not like you. He never wanted you. In all probability, he hates you.
This is not the worst thing that can happen.'Ah, religion. Well, this shouldn't cause any controversy or anything. But I'm not a complete idiot, despite all the evidence to the co... Comment - Like
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Jun 15, 2010, 9:47 am
By this point, I'm pretty much out of the Socialist Party. Mostly I just stopped going to meetings and answering phone calls, which is pretty much a pattern I'm used to by now. I think we can chalk it up to a combination of laziness and a distinct feeling of wasting my time. It turns out I'm not act... Comment - Like
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Jun 2, 2010, 7:07 pm
Horrific news from Cumbria, in a disturbingly familiar pattern:
Twelve people were killed by a gunman who went on the rampage across Cumbria in north-west England. Taxi driver Derrick Bird shot dead a colleague in the town of Whitehaven, before driving through the countryside apparently t... Comment - Like
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May 19, 2010, 9:48 am
Janet Street-Porter is just one of those people who, whenever I see them on TV or whatever, I always feel a corresponding need to shout and throw things. But the worst part is, I can't even remember what she's done to piss me off so badly. It can't just have been a snap judgement on my part, can it?... Comment - Like
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May 8, 2010, 8:22 pm
So, hello people of Alexland. I am blograping him. It is fun. ALEX HAS A GAY MAN IN HIS HOUSE. AND A STRAIGHT MAN. AND A WOMAN (I'm the woman). Alex is angry. I'm not Harold bloody Pinter, apparently. I'm 'Woman'. Alex was going to type that I am Harold Wilson, but unfortunately... Comment - Like
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May 7, 2010, 3:41 am
Let's just get the cock jokes out of the way now, shall we?
This election has been something of a disappointment. On the campaign trail, amid early polling, we were promised a long build-up to a dramatic, exciting climax. Ultimately, however, the hoped-for Lib Dem surge failed to materialise, leavin... Comment - Like
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May 2, 2010, 3:52 am
Since between Nigella Lawson and Sophie Dahl, the BBC seem to be pulling out all the stops as regards food porn, I thought it might be timely to offer some cookery tips myself. Given that I'm a useless-to-outright-dangerous cook and I probably don't make very good 'posh totty' (hourglass figure notw... Comment - Like
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Apr 9, 2010, 2:44 am
So fairly soon we're going to have a general election. I'm voting for the first time, and it's a rather brutal introduction to parliamentary democracy to have Wikipedia call your constituency 'the safest Conservative seat in the country'. Figures. There's essentially no point in me voting, but I'm g... Comment - Like
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Mar 23, 2010, 12:27 pm
Most lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have been verbally abused and a third physically attacked, according to a new survey.
The statistics from Stonewall Scotland suggested most people did not report the incidents to the police. Well, I'm shocked like Captain Renault. Luckily, Stonewall... Comment - Like
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Feb 19, 2010, 2:46 am
A friend of mine died recently. I hadn't known her for long enough for us to be really close, so I'm more shocked than anything else. I can't even begin to imagine what her family and closer friends have been going through. I don't do vicarious grief, so I'm not going to give her name, and it feels ... Comment - Like
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Feb 14, 2010, 6:22 am
Strange times at the Independent. More often than not it's my second choice if a copy of the Grauniad is not forthcoming, because I like having my prejudices reaffirmed the same as everyone else. If you're politically-minded in that slightly deranged sort of way that passes for normal amongst curren... Comment - Like
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Feb 10, 2010, 12:34 am
I hate being nocturnal. Especially in winter; I end up standing on my front doorstep with a cigarette in hand, and with between the cold, the wind blowing my hair around, and my insistent love of long black coats, I start feeling like one of those Scottish widows. It doesn't help that there's bugger... Comment - Like
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Jan 27, 2010, 12:12 pm
I've quit college to spend more time with my neuroses. I have responsibilites, after all. I have walls to stare at, and the mould in the sink isn't going to water itself. RSS feeds to read, neglected emails to reply to. Busy busy busy. Who needs academia when you have a Rhizopus houseplant to take c... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2010, 7:17 am
Right now, I don't feel like I'm much good at anything. And it doesn't feel like that's going to change. That's all. Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
These days I'm starting to feel like Sisyphus. Now that Croydon is over and done with, as Yogi Berra said, it's deja vu all over again. I'm beginning to get a little pissed off with my own inability to stick with things, and more than that I really need something to keep me occupied. Everything else... Comment - Like
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Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
I could see my entire life flash before my eyes, like one big gay pride parade!Yesterday was Pride London, and I worked up the courage to go up there and spend what seemed the hottest day of the year (in oh so many ways) gaying it up and being vaguely political, in the best traditions of hipsters ev... Comment - Like
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