Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 22, 2009, 5:31 pm
(via lovegifs) Yes, they seem quite dinosaur-like nowadays compared with mp3s and music on CDs. But I liked having tapes. I liked taking time to make compilations. For myself, and others. I liked goi...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 21, 2009, 11:44 am
Peter getting out of Nick’s pool, acrylic on canvas, by David Hockney, 1966 (via Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool) In 1966 Hockney travelled to Los Angeles for the second time. Greatly attracted ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 20, 2009, 1:08 pm
 (via Laura Laine) Posted in the arts Tagged: art, artist, fashion, fashion illustration, illustrator, sketch, women
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 20, 2009, 3:47 am
Posted in fragments of the past, photography Tagged: 1930s, athletes, men, moscow, red square, russia, soldiers
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 20, 2009, 3:41 am
Posted in fragments of the past, photography Tagged: history, new york, nyc
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 19, 2009, 6:14 pm
Out tonight for drinks at a wine bar in Leicester Square (not, you’ll be relieved to hear, on the awfully touristy main drag, but just off it) – then dinner at my favourite Chinese. Mother...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 19, 2009, 1:01 am
Is it only on the London underground where they say, nonchalantly over the tannoy whilst giving service updates: “there are delays on the X line between Y and Z due to a person under a trainR...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 17, 2009, 4:05 pm
Posted in desperately seeking steven, fragments of the past, friends, music, notes to self, videos
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 17, 2009, 11:02 am
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 14, 2009, 4:46 am
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 14, 2009, 4:42 am
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 11, 2009, 5:39 pm
Am loving True Blood. Loving it! Is better that Spooks Series 8, would you believe! I am genuinely savouring every single episode. And I’m falling in love with Sookie Stackhouse (played –...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 10, 2009, 3:35 pm
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 9, 2009, 2:34 pm
We’re now in autumn and around the corner is the bleak midwinter that comes with living in northern Europe. The temperature has dropped considerably over the past week or so. It’s now in s...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 5, 2009, 3:55 pm
I may have gained 14 lbs in the past year. But I no longer have any spots. A good thing for someone in their early 30s. They had bugged me on and off for two decades. My skin is better than it’...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 5, 2009, 2:41 pm
Great evening at the theatre seeing Priscilla: Queen of the Desert. Really good fun. One of the best things I’ve seen at the theatre in a long time. I love the film too, which probably helps. ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 3, 2009, 3:59 pm
I’ve been at my company a year. The anniversary was the end of last week. I wrote a long post at the weekend. Which I didn’t post. Not sure why. It was too long to be honest. And I was on ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 2, 2009, 4:29 am
The brand new 8th series premiers this Wednesday at 9pm GMT on BBC1. It’s fair to say that Spooks is one of my most favourite TV series and certainly one of the very best things that the BBC air...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Nov 1, 2009, 3:42 pm
... in 1913 at age of 26, and soon rose to be arbitrator of modernist English poetry with her two brothers, collectively known as “the Sitwells.” While her love was poetry, she wrote sev...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 31, 2009, 1:51 pm
(Mae West, 1934) I’ve having a quiet weekend following a horrendously busy week. Morning was productive. Barber, Wine Shop, supermarket, Italian deli. Have cooked this afternoon. Going to spen...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 29, 2009, 4:08 pm
A lone piper was playing at the station this evening, on my way home. I find bagpipe music haunting. I’m guessing it’s in connection with Remembrance Sunday which is imminent. We wear popp...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 27, 2009, 3:20 pm
Pilates can be up and down. Some weeks I find it really hard and I long for the end. Other times I get a kick out of it. Tonight wasn’t too bad. I seemed a bit more supple than usual and had m...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 25, 2009, 7:38 am
Sobriety test, Los Angeles, 1950s Funny how they used to do such things. I had a work party on Friday night and got v.tipsy. Started on Peroni beer, then moved to ‘gin & lemonade’ (heret...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 20, 2009, 5:13 pm
An enjoyable evening with family at my favourite wine bar in Belgravia. Met them at the place I frequented when I was saying hello to Sven – a very old haunt of mine. I’m not averse to ca...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 18, 2009, 7:12 am
It’s a period comedy set on a pirate radio ship floating in the North Sea in the 1960s. I enjoy period pieces harking back to the latter part of the 21st century – and so to that end, I en...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 17, 2009, 6:06 am
So we’ve recently been taken through personality profiling at work, to get us working better in our respective teams. I should say at the outset that if you’re unfamiliar with Myers Brigg...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 16, 2009, 4:32 pm
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 15, 2009, 5:34 pm
25 years after forming, A-Ha announced that they were splitting today. I remain transfixed by 80s music. Such a formative decade for me. Music such as theirs brings it all back. Then: Now: Posted ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 14, 2009, 5:31 pm
The usual journey into work. Train and tube. 50 or so minutes on a good day (longer than you might expect from zone 3, but that’s London for you). On the tube, the man on my left is transfixed ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 12, 2009, 1:00 pm
(all images via dannyroberts) Love this guy’s art – is great! And he’s only 23. He specializes in fashion related art. His prints also available to buy. Posted in the arts Tagged:...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 11, 2009, 2:56 pm
I’ve gained 14 lbs in the last year. I need to lose it. Not yet sure how. Re-joining a gym would be a start… Watch this space. Posted in health, music Tagged: culture beat, diet, mr vain...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 11, 2009, 9:25 am
I watched State of Play last night (the 2009 Hollywood movie, rather than the made-for-television BBC miniseries of 2003). It was good and is worth watching. I am a big fan of the original BBC versio...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 11, 2009, 7:16 am
Enjoyed good food in France on holiday last month, unsurprisingly. The supermarkets are great, as are the markets. And oh how I love the boulangeries! It was like a self-catering holiday which was g...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Oct 3, 2009, 1:43 pm
An enjoyable morning and lunchtime with a close friend (ex-colleague) at Borough Market. If – like me – you are covetous of very fresh, very high quality, seasonal and regional food ̵...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 30, 2009, 2:38 pm
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 29, 2009, 5:54 am
It was a modern miracle, the scene we thought we would never see. The Labour party rose, not just to applaud Peter Mandelson but to cheer him, to whoop at him, to adore him. Tony Blair famously said t...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 28, 2009, 5:43 pm
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 26, 2009, 3:00 pm
Igors Vihrovs became the feel-good story of the 2000 Olympic floor finals. With some of the most unique tumbling of the competition, he stuck his tricky tucked double-double dismount, and earned the f...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 26, 2009, 3:25 am
In the 1400’s a law was set forth in England that a man was allowed to beat his wife with a stick no thicker than his thumb. Hence we have ‘the rule of thumb’ ——̵...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 25, 2009, 4:06 pm
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 23, 2009, 5:42 pm
This sign was on the front door of the cafe we went to in Collioure. Made me chuckle. Très français! Posted in on my travels, photography Tagged: france, french, sign
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 22, 2009, 4:39 pm
… would you find a middle aged straight man on a public beach… wearing a thong. The person on his left is female (and presumably his wife). This Frenchman had a cigar which I thought quit...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 21, 2009, 4:34 pm
When we arrived at the house in France it was all shuttered up. The smell was slightly musty. We threw open the shutters throughout the house and let in the cool mountain breeze. At night, I would clo...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 20, 2009, 5:48 pm
Got back from a week in the south of France this evening. Enjoyed it. Good break away. Not looking forward to work tomorrow… Lots of photos and we did a lot of things. Driving in the mountains...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 16, 2009, 3:00 pm
The trouble with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people’s money. - Margaret Thatcher, quoted in The Guardian This post is one I made earlier; I’m currently in the south...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 14, 2009, 3:30 pm
I took this in Prague last year. I like their underground system. It has a kind of old fashioned sci-fi feel to it. This post is one I made earlier. I’m currently residing in the south of Franc...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 11, 2009, 9:28 am
Going to Starbucks for coffee is like going to prison for sex. You know you’re going to get it, but it’s going to be rough. - Australian comedian Adam Hills, quoted on the BBC Posted in ...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 10, 2009, 3:46 pm
The man on the opposite platform whom I see every morning in the rush hour. I look at him. He appears to look at me. He’s in shorts and a t-shirt but I’ve seen him in a suit before. And y...
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 9, 2009, 8:51 am
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Milo U. posted an article on Milo & The Year Zero - Sep 8, 2009, 3:52 pm
This evening I met up with Sven. I’ve known Sven pushing 2 years via my blog (we first started blogging one another 2 blogs ago in my case and 1 blog ago in his case). An enjoyable evening. Sve...
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