I just pulled off the second tick in as many weeks from my poor cat. If you have ever experienced these vile creatures before, you’ll have some idea about how slightly ill I’m feeling at the moment.
Is there a single more disgusting, parasitic and useless creature in existence? Why, of all the organisms inhabiting our [...]
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So I’m sitting by a window on the top deck of a bus, it’s doing its thang somewhere in North London, while I’m minding me own business reading a magazine. Said bus comes to a halt at a request stop (these things happen). From my vantage point I see two figures waiting to climb aboard.
Imagine [...]
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*Geeky Post Alert*
If you are familiar with Alan Moore’s graphic novel Watchmen, you’ll be as excited yet apprehensive as I am about the forthcoming film adaptation. Seeing that world and those characters on the big screen could be something special, no doubt about it. But can one film do such a labyrinth and epic piece [...]
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An issue I lightly touched upon in my previous (only) post was that of internet/blog anonymity. For my own situation, I used the expression “semi-anonymous”, which I believe sums it up quite well. Unlike Belle, I don’t plan on posting information about myself that could potentially damage me or my family. Beyond your usual, bog-standard [...]
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