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Luminox: medieval modernity 2007-03-19 01:06:00 On Thursday night I left the library at closing time just before 7pm. I walked up Catte Street to unlock my bike and cycle home for dinner. As I was crossing the lane underneath the Bridge of Sighs, I thought "What the fuck?!" as I saw flames coming from the New Bodleian. It was on fire. When I was closer I realized it was a deliberate fire: a huge globe of little flames in flower pots, smoking incense. I stood on the corner outside the History Faculty, drinking tea from my flask, taking in the wonderful scene. I love how Oxford can surprise you like this. The whole of Broad Street was transformed. Wires of lights were suspended from the Clarendon Building and the Sheldonian Theatre. There were braziers in the middle of the street.Further up, there were metals columns above a bowl of fire, with some sort of gear-wheel mechanism controlling the supply of oxygen, so they would periodically explode a fireball from the top. They were being operated by men in black suits wearing black h Read more:Luminox
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Same difference 2005-06-05 21:10:00 Is there a difference
between writer's block and wanker's cramp?
Witan of mittangeard sagen 2005-05-20 18:57:00 Swollen eyes bear no grudge.Walk backwards only when shadows are long.A bearded mouse finds its own way. Read more:sagen
Vulture capital 2005-05-04 00:13:00 One of them beat Ronnie O'Sullivan at the Crucible; the other sits on a branch and cadges scran off other animals Read more:Vulture
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The FA Cup versus Charles Clarke 2005-04-14 00:41:00 One of them will be presented to the winning captain at the Millenium Stadium on 21 May; the other is hoping for re-election as the Labour government's Home Secretary - but can you tell which one is which? Read more:Charles
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Public health warning 2005-03-18 02:37:00 If you're the sensitive type, look away now:Q: Why should you put a baby in a liquidizer feet first?A: So that it can watch you masturbate. Read more:Public
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Rad Cam toilet jokes 2005-03-10 13:01:00 Now that I've been offered a place on the English M.St. programme here in Oxford, I've got at least another year and a half of being able to read these jokes while I relieve myself on Bodley's finest:Q: What's the difference between 27 dead babies and a Ferrari?A: I haven't got a Ferrari in my garage.Q: What's red and yellow and looks good on hippies?A: Fire.
The truth about cats and dogs 2005-02-15 19:54:00 "Marriage is the price men are prepared to pay for sexual intercourse; sexual intercourse is the price women are prepared to pay for marriage."(Christopher Ricks quoted this in his Oliver Smithies lecture on Henry James, which he gave in Oxford today. I think the quotation is from a woman called Brophy, whom Ricks read when he was about 20.)
Blogcritics 2006-05-24 00:31:00 I've just signed up to Blogcritics in the hope of gaining more exposure for my ickleReviews. From now on my reviews should be appearing on there as well.
ickleRatings 2005-09-18 03:23:00 I've added a new feature to my ickleReviews: a quickfire rating system so that you can see at a glance whether a movie is worth seeing, whether it's okay/kinda average, if it reeks to high heaven, or whether you should drop whatever you're doing and go watch it now, right this minute. To be honest, I'm not that fond of judging movies like this, but as my reviews are so numerous now, it makes them more user-friendly to have this frontdoor labelling. I'd give you that sort of answer if you asked me in person, so why not do it in print? I don't like the star rating, or the marks out of ten or a hundred. My guide is the way that Roger Ebert does it, although I have replaced stars with other symbols. He rates each movie on its own merit and never gives more than four stars for current releases. He does, however, have classic movies, which equates, somewhat, to my * rating. I don't think my opinion about these * movies will change. Some of them (e.g. the Befores by Linklater) are amon
Happy birthdays! 2005-08-18 01:57:00 I've been writing this website for three years now. Some sort of landmark, I suppose. And yesterday I became a nuncle! I think my sister will either call her Aoife ("Eefa") or Lamb. It wasn't due for another month, but when I spoke to Laura on Sunday we were joking that it could pop out at any moment. And so it has. Read more:Happy
Wha be whaim? 2005-04-12 03:11:00 Bruno Ganz and Adolf Hitler
Mirror image 2005-04-01 13:53:00 Russell Crowe and David Morse
Technorati Searchlet 2005-02-11 02:18:00 While prostituting my blog in an attempt to get more hits, I decided to include the Technorati
Searchlet in my sidebar in the "Somebody hit me" section. It's really good: much better than the Google/Blogger NavBar at the top of the page, which doesn't seem to produce any results when you try to search this site. Try typing in "ickleReviews", for example, and it comes up with all the film reviews I've done so far. Now it'll be much easier to search through my archives. Bonus.
Method to madness 2005-02-09 02:30:00 The thinking behind the font - Courier New - was to make it look like a typewriter. Old (typewriter style), new (template design and techonology: t'internet), borrowed (from Blogger) and blue (colour scheme, based on the NavBar). All I need now is a wedding.
New look 2005-02-09 02:18:00 Regular readers of the site will notice that there have been a number of visual tweaks in the past few days. I'd be interested to know your thoughts on them. I got tired of the dots, partly because it's one of the default templates; in fact, the very first one on the list. Now, at least, I have a unique design.
VD 2005-02-04 05:14:00 This year, give your loved one something they'll never forget. Be an Anti-Valentine.
Tom Paulin, "The Road to Inver" 2004-10-08 02:09:00 Went to Far from the Madding Crowd for Tom's book launch of his new collection of translations, versions and imitations. It wasn't quite the networking opportunity that I thought it might be, which isn't such a bad thing because I don't like that word: networking, not opportunity. Tom seemed a little distracted and melancholy. I do think he savours these occasions when he can see all his friends, though. I guess he doesn't like being the centre of attention. He said something later about disappointing a friend at not being able to go to an event in Middlesborough. I think he has to go to London for Newsnight Review on Friday night.Saw the Scottmeister, who had already had a good few wines. He was drinking with Seamus Perry, whose article on "Romanticism: The Brief History of a Concept" I read just before Finals. I think he's at Glasgow University now. He seemed to think that All Souls is the kiss of death to a career. He was second in his year, but didn't get in. His Finals pape
Hello Picasa 2004-09-01 02:39:00 Okay, so I wish I hadn't posted so many pics of me when I set up Hello
on this site. It's really nifty and everything, but photos of me, generally speaking, are not. It's a bit weird putting photos of me on my own site. Loser. Well, winner at some things, but not this one. Wooden spoon, anyone?
I could just edit them out, but I've got this karma thing going where it would be bad vibes, man, to take anything away that has already been posted. It'd be like erasing history, fiddling with my archives, which is what Big Brother does (George Orwell's, not Endemol's, dummy), not innocent little me, just having an ickle bit of bloggery experimenting fun.
(If I had put "experimental fun" there, it would seem like I only have fun on a trial basis. Three bits of fun at a time for £14.99 a month, 21 days' free trial, cancel any time.)
So anyway, I'm trying to write more posts so that the pics disappear from the front page. Again, I could just change the settings, but I don't want to Read more:Picasa
Morning pages 2004-08-30 03:52:00 I'm not sure whether I should start writing my morning pages on here. Go look up Julia Cameron if you don't know what I'm talking about. I've got a few problems with doing them here: 1) They're not supposed to be read by anyone, not even me. 2) How do I know when I've written three pages, when this baby is all one big long, stretchy page. 3) If I write them on the Information Superhighway (more on that later), then I miss out on using my lovely fountain pen. (My screen would get a bit messy if I tried to write with that here.) Any ideas? Would all you people that are not reading this anyway, want to read my morning pages? It would just be whatever comes to my head at the time, probably quite personal and kind of an inside job.
But the good news if I actually wrote them here would be that I would actually be using this blog, which the lovely people at Blogger keep sprucing up, and all for free, thanks to Google.
The thing that reads this page the most is either me when I check t Read more:Morning
Blogger/Google/Hello rock! 2004-06-20 12:58:00 Dude, Blogger
just got a whole lot cooler since they teamed up with Google
. This free image hosting is very sweet. I can't believe all this stuff costs nowt! I hope it stays that way... Read more:Hello
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