The end of an era is upon us

A sad day

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/6252300.stm

Will probably mean less to you if you didn't go to Glasgow Uni (or similar)

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An interview with the wee man himself

who says there's no news in Scotland?

I know everyone's already seen it

but this had disappeared of You Tube for a while and now it's back! Bolt, ya nugget.

God it's been ages

so it's been a while since I've posted anything. Rubbish. Let's just get it clear at this point that I am aware there are a few hardy souls who do actually look at this thing once in a while and for them I can only apologise for the lack of witty banter that has been forthcoming in recent weeks. I'm also more than aware that I owe Lorna and Im a write up for their generous sponsorship of my mum ...

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sorry for the lack of blogging recently

bear with me - normal service will be resumed soon

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This time last year I was getting ready for Roskilde

This year I'm sat watching Glastonbury getting verrrry jealous.... I never really cared before, but now all the memories are coming flooding back.

Next year Rodney. Next year.

I added the "cities I've visited" application to Facebook this evening

37 cities in 10 countries, eh? Sounds almost impressive. Except that 75% of them are places like "Birmingham", "Glasgow", "Belfast" and "Brighton", whilst the rest are pretty much a detailed map of mid-80s middle class holiday destinations.

Still, in the past year I've been to Berlin, Gdansk, Malmo and Copenhagen, so maybe it's not too late.

New kid on the blog

I am thinking of retiring from blogging, as I will otherwise just get depressed at the gulf in quality between this tattie (like what I did there?) rag and the newest addition to my "links" - Withafacelikethat.

This is the forst foray into the internet revolution by my good friend, Mr Gavin Wilson. Unfortunately, he is a professional journalist, and you can therefore guarantee that the content ...

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Musicovery

I stumbled Upon this the other day - it's quite cool

Musicovery

I'm a bit pished

oops

I have Roskilde-envy

The paper had a feature on European festivals today. Made the mistake of looking at the line up for Roskilde. CSS, LCD Soundsystem, Arcade Fire...

200 Euro for a week of camping out in a dusty field whilst an 18 year old scandinavian kid pisses against your tent before setting fire to it - come on! Who's with me?!?!

I've made my can of beer last 2 hours

rock and roll

Egads, what to talk about

Always the way, isn't it? You finally get an opportunity to sit down and chew the fat/entertain the masses with some blog-situated frivolity and then you come over all shy. Probably just as well though - am supposed to be job hunting.

All I ask for is £25K, no uniform and Fridays off to go down the pub. Can't be that feckin hard, can it?

The adoring look of the father to be

Worshipping Stella's belly. Either that or Pino had just overdone it last weekend and couldn't stand up in the park. Still love the photo though.

Slowly returning to normality

I had a very civilised weekend this weekend - skintness helped force my hand and resulted in me having a few beers on Friday, a nice afternoon in the park and then a very civilised Saturday evening getting all cultured on the South Bank at the reopening of the Royal Festival Hall, and the best, most sober Saturday night's sleep I've had since I was about 14 years old. I slept like a log and woke ...

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Getting cultured for free

At the reopening of the Festival Hall

25% of Londoners think I'm boring

Wouldn't-know-a-frothy-get-you-home-in-the-evening-anecdote-if-it-hit-them-in-the-face-and-
then-pooed-on-their-heads philistine twats.

Quality control goes out the window again

Quite how thelondonpaper manages to fill it's column inches on a daily basis is beyond me, as I am convinced there is a complete lack of submissions for their "columnist" feature. The latest proof is that they have printed my drunken mush, penned when in a state of some fuzziness on Thursday evening.

Whilst I was proud the first time I got a column printed, it's more a case of "quantity over ...

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Summer's here...

Pushing the boundaries of journalistic endeavour

after months and months of writer's block (caused in no small part by people telling me they actually liked my previous column), I finally found inspiration this evening in the form of a plucky fly. Kind of like Robert the Bruce. Thanks to Gav for pointing out the obvious, i.e. that it was a spider in the story. So much for poetic license.

Anyway, it's not pulitzer prize winning and probably ...

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