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Entries from March 24th, 2009

Drowned in Sound

March 24th, 2009 No Comments

Specifically, Jon Boden’s completely superb new album “Songs From The Floodplain”. I have owned it for slightly over a week, after a friend recommended it, and I thought “it’s that chap out of Bellowhead, I ought to see what he does solo”. And as a result I appear to be developing a worrying obsession with [...]

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Public Pictures

March 22nd, 2009 No Comments

So, as most of you probably know, I’m a bit of a photography nerd. There are few things in life that make me happier than wandering about London with a camera in hand, and most of those things that do are not things I can do in public without getting arrested. So I get a [...]

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Gaming

March 19th, 2009 1 Comment

One of the topics Andrea gave me to talk about: Gaming. Well, here’s something I don’t talk about a lot in public: Roleplaying games. To my non-gaming friends, this is the nerdiest thing I do. By miles. Gaming has a bad rep as a hobby for the poorly-socialised and unwashed and/or as a hobby for [...]

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Humans Against Dead Humans

March 19th, 2009 No Comments

A glance at my housemate’s blog informs me that April is genocide prevention month. I shall of course, be doing my part, by suspending my usual genocidal activities next month. I urge you all to stop your wholesale slaughter of entire races of people in the month of April as well. More seriously, I had [...]

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Rituals Of Binding

March 2nd, 2009 No Comments

So, five years ago, I wrote a short piece about “technological shamanism”. When I wrote it, I was one of a very small number of people I knew who had a wifi enabled PDA, or really any ability to get internet access while out and about. My recollection is that some of the more advanced [...]

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