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Buy New Kindle eBooks

Thursday, January 19th, 2012

We like our eBooks. In fact since Wife Christmas decided to generously purchase a Kindle for her blissfully ignorant husband, we’ve dabbled in the world of Kindle and fallen in love. (more…)

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New Year on a Lonely Pier

Tuesday, January 17th, 2012

So I spent New Year 2012 drinking champagne with a handful of friends on a lonely pier on the Thames. One of us, I don’t know who, figured it was preferable to being at some painfully cool warehouse party in Hackney Wick, full of red-eyed revelers snorting lines from mirrors and pushing feel-good gravel up their noses; temporary couples fucking in the stairwell, on the sofa and under the kitchen table (NY, 2010). This year’s arrangement was nice, tamer than ever, but nice. I’ve never seen the mayor’s fireworks display before—it reminded me of a Jim’ll Fix It episode, the one where the Bank of England let a kid burn £million in notes. (more…)

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Online Bookshops Vs Bricks and Mortar

Wednesday, January 11th, 2012

So what are the pros and cons of buying books online and buying books via the old-fashioned high street (or side street) way?

Online Bookshops: Why Buy?

Cheap. Amazon and other online bookshops are nearly always cheaper. Even with postage, and often by a third of the price. It’s nearly ridiculous…but also quite fantastic. (more…)

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A Christmas Tale or How I Learned to Love Bono

Saturday, December 24th, 2011

It was late and I was on the bus going home. The bus stopped and a family of shoeless, homeless, emaciated, wretched fools climbed on to the bus, but they didn’t have the fare and so the bus driver sent them back out into the snow – it was snowing. A lady next to me tapped me on the shoulder and softly, coquettishly said, “Well tonight, thank God it’s them instead of you!” (more…)

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do not read this, sing it!

Tuesday, December 20th, 2011

do not read this, sing it!

it’s useless unless unless unless it moves you. like beating drums, like beating screwdrivers, like beating your bishop, like beating the homeless. Nothing beats like beating the homeless. And if the homeless is a girl with a family problem it’s wonderful! (more…)

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Honest Christmas Bonanza

Thursday, December 15th, 2011

Welcome to the Honest Christmas books bonanza… (more…)

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Occupy Art. Word¹.

Wednesday, December 14th, 2011

I have been thinking the big things about government and civil disobedience and art and society and love and what it means to be a human being and why do we tell the stories we tell when there are so many other stories and why, when there are so many other stories, do I call myself mama, yo. (more…)

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Substance

Monday, December 12th, 2011

I often dream I am in jail. I can’t imagine why. Maybe if I did have enough imagination to imagine why, I wouldn’t dream about being in jail in the first place. But what I lack in imagination I always try to make up for in substance. (more…)

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Stop Online Piracy Act Threatens Freedom of Speech

Thursday, December 8th, 2011

It may have slipped under your radar, due to the relative lack of press coverage, but there is a bill being debated in the US Senate at the moment that has massive repercussions for the way the Internet operates in the future, and consequently for free speech in general. The bill, backed by US giants Viacom, AOL, Nike, among many others, is called the Stop Online Piracy Act, or SOPA for short. (more…)

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Wednesday, December 7th, 2011

I have a big cock. I had to get that out of the way first. On paper it is easy, but in the real world it is very hard. I have a twenty-seven-inch cock. An old girlfriend called it The Onion. I was very proud of the name. Many years later I found out she called it the Onion because of the smell. I always thought she named it The Onion because it brought a tear to her eye. (more…)

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