Me in the snow. I can’t believe I was ever this little.
Today, I am 40 years old! Happy Birthday to meeeee!
Yesterday, I finished off the last bits of text to go with the artwork for a 7″ being released by Swedish label Heavenly Pop Hits. I’m also finishing off the artwork for my new album [...]
Archive for July, 2006
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L-R: Arthur Deane, Jimmy Deane and Ted Grant, mid-1950s
Ted Grant died last week, aged 93. Read the Guardian obituary by clicking here.
It’s impossible for me to say how great an impact Grant has had on my life. And, as a good ex-Marxist, I’m very suspicious of any historical analysis which places too much emphasis [...]
Mascot Fight are extremely on their way to becoming my favourite band from Derby. The why? Well, every year, they seem to release a song that’s made out of pollen and pink bonbons. Last year it was the hieronymous ‘Thinking In French,’ a song as pulchritudinous as it was deliquescent.
I wrote about that song [...]
(No it hasn’t.)
UN peacekeepers in south Lebanon contacted Israeli troops 10 times before an Israeli bomb killed four of them, an initial UN report says.
The post was hit by a precision-guided missile after six hours of shelling, diplomats familiar with the probe say.
The UN report says each time the UN contacted Israeli forces, they [...]
I got the above DVD this morning and it’s ace. But it also made me rather sad at the heinous state of current Brit comedy. What I love about this series is that it’s silly, stupid, satirical and very, very funny. The kid stupid humour of hacked books written by Ted Cunterblast, the oleaginously obsequious [...]
Paul Sellars wrote:
>Jyoti Mishra wrote:
>In completely un-related news, I’ve just about got my fallout >bunker finished… I haven’t felt this apocalyptic since the ’80s…
It is slightly terrifying, I grant you.
Are you assuming that the US is allowing Israel a free hand in the hope of provoking Iran to intervene, thereby providing a pre-text for an [...]
Yaffle! In my garden!
Activists pushing investors to drop shares of Coca Cola stock scored a victory Tuesday when a segment of the nation’s largest pension fund divested from the beverage giant.
Activists had been putting pressure on the educators’ retirement fund TIAA-CREF to drop Coke stock from its Choice Account, a fund set up to cater to socially conscious [...]
One year after the death of Jean Charles de Menezes, his relatives and friends have gathered at the south London Tube station where he was killed.
A hot and humid Saturday at Stockwell Tube station was the backdrop for an intensely emotional display of grief, one year on from the shooting of Jean Charles de Menezes.
The [...]