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There is no way you are going to read a weirder news story than this one anytime this year

Posted on March 26, 2011

You have to make your own entertainment in the country, you know I was born about 30 miles from where this took place, incidentally.

Posted in Animals, Ethics, Mental Illness, SATAN!, The Law, The Media | 4 Comments

football done properly

Posted on March 15, 2010

11 J-League professionals versus a team of small schoolchildren. But there are a hundred of them.

Posted in Savage Nerdery, Sport, Videos | 4 Comments

Cassetteboy vs Nick Griffin

Posted on October 24, 2009

Daisy is probably the one who will really appreciate this, so I hope she sees it when she gets out of hospital, but we have a nasty far right party called the BNP here (which always makes me laugh when … Continue reading →

Posted in Politics, Videos | Tagged | 2 Comments

Firefighters were tougher back then

Posted on September 14, 2009

Nantwich is a small market town in the north of England. This is from their tourist information leaflet “The best recorded disaster is the Great Fire of 1583 which, encouraged by constant winds, lasted for 20 days and destroyed most … Continue reading →

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Chip Pan Fire

Posted on August 3, 2009

Given the recent talk of chip butties, I thought it only right to post this cautionary tale: Glosses: A chip pan is a regular frying pan filled with very hot oil for the cooking of chips 999 is the emergency … Continue reading →

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A Kind Of Homecoming

Posted on August 2, 2009

There’s still time before the shuttle leaves, and so I decide to take a walk outside and say my final goodbyes to Hesperia. Two years I’ve been here, working out at the other side of the galaxy, and even though … Continue reading →

Posted in Travel, Writing (Fiction) | Tagged | 3 Comments

Punk Haikus

Posted on July 23, 2009

Shirts off in the pit Sweaty bodies all around Tomorrow – bruises! … Razor and raw egg Shave the side and rub it in Instant mohican … Three chords and the truth All you need to start a band (drums … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged | 4 Comments

Why Having Left Japan Sucks, Part 857

Posted on July 20, 2009

…because not five minutes (okay, twelve months) after I leave, they decide to build a 35 meter high robot in the park we used to go to almost every other weekend more pictures and stuff at www.pinktentacle.com

Posted in Photos, Technology, Travel | Tagged | 1 Comment