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Napster ‘99 all over again
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Remember when Napster was a free for all? It was bloody magic, I was working in Dublin at the time downloading CRAPLOADS of music on a Celtic Tiger-provided high speed connection. The best bit was thinking “what about that one song I liked back in ’86?” – a quick search and there it was, you…
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Anthony Bourdain’s Lebanon perspective
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Shee-yit, I’ve got a blog!Anthony Bourdain is the anti-celebrity chef with a taste for Steak and The Ramones – that alone makes him my kind of guy, but he also does deadly keyboard. I pilfered copies of “Kitchen Confidential‘ and ‘A Cook’s Tour‘ last Thursday, and have read the first and am halfway through the…
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Mount QB weekend 040606 002
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Mount QB weekend 040606 002 Originally uploaded by richirvine73.
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Bullet Points
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It’s a beautiful blue sky day in Auckland. Here’s some bullet point for the long weekend. – Thinking of original stuff to put on your blog is HARD. – We came third in the quiz this week. – Mother of all Score! Reports is coming soon. – Go out and buy Samuel Flynn Scott’s album…
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Being there : Danny Bhoy at the St James 170506
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He’s almost too NICE to be a comedian. He came on with a big smile that never wavered, even when a god squadder took vocal exception to his (really, very inoffensive) ruminations on religion. In response, he sung a ‘typical hymn’ – “God is Great, we’re all shit”. Bull’s eye, I think he may have…
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Surf Spots 170506
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– Every week, since about oh, 1998, The Onion has made me laugh. That’s a lot of laughter, and this warning that people’s drunkenness does not impair the Alligators’ ability to inflict enormous physical harm made me spray the screen.– Here’s a fairly comprehensive list of the 50 worst songs ever recorded. Was compiled before…
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Bitchin’ in the Kitchen
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No matter what you think of Jamie ‘aw-wight? Luv-ah-lee’ Oliver, the guy can really cook. Inspired by a quick rifle through one of his books, I whipped this up last night: First, get: 1 Chicken Breast1 strip Bacon1/2 Red Onion, cut up1 Green Pepper, cut up1 Red skinned potato (cut up and microwaved for a…
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Championes
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We WON the quiz last night. This seems to be happening more often. Interesting points to emerge:– There were only three of us in the team. – We got out to a huge lead in the first half, then steadily got crapper as we went, but somehow managed to hang on and get into the…
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Surf spots 090506
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– Rob Manuel, co-founder of B3TA is an inspirational kind of guy, as you can see. I’ve been thinking about creativity and burnout a lot recently, you will find all the answers you need here. Possibly. – I’m a WICKED procrastinator. I sat down to write this blog post and… and… Hey that was COOL,…
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