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  • Dog with overly made up, impersonal, ever-smiling fleas

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    Thereafter, TV One revisited, like a dog returning to its vomit, the Michael Jackson circus every night, for significant periods, for the next 11 nights. Ian Bayly, I love your work.

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  • Read: The Autograph Man by Zadie Smith

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    It may have been a mistake to read this right after White Teeth. The Autograph Man is on a completely different scale to its  predecessor, the narrative taking only a couple of weeks and centering around one main character, Alex Li-Tandem, an autograph collector who loses his father in the opening chapter. Alex lacks charm…

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  • Dining – Q @ The Westin

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    My main was the Rack of South Island Wild Boar with a roast apple. It was a little bit chewy in places, but nothing to do with how it was cooked, which was beautifully. I got three generous sized ‘racks’ and a bit of pork belly, which didn’t last too long. Birthday Girl went for…

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  • Upgrading is such sweet sorrow

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    Three and a half years ago I bought one of my most favorite gadgets ever – my first iPod. 4th generation, 20GB, that vanilla white. We had a lot of fun together. The iTrip meant I could play it over any radio, and when I changed cars, the new stereo had a cable to plug…

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  • Abandon all hope

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    Obama Drastically Scales Back Goals For America After Visiting Denny’s

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  • Read: JPod by Douglas Coupland

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    What is it with writers putting themselves in their books? Brett Easton Ellis went from being a kind of bored god to me  to totally frickin insane (in a bad way) in Lunar Park, and Douglas Coupland did much the same by sauntering into JPod in an exercise in twee pointlessness. It’s a sequal of…

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  • Read: White Teeth by Zadie Smith

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    This was kind of like reading Michael Chabon for the first time – I couldn’t wait to finish so I could rush out and read everything else she’d done. Set in London, White Teeth bucks its way over a hundred years or so to tell the story of three London families. But that’s kind of…

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  • On the road again

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    Here’s me on my way out of Telecom Wholesale – a wicked, wicked place to work. No, my photoshopping skills are no better at work than at play 🙂

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  • Best. Trailer. Ever.

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  • Shut your maaaf

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