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It’s A Marvel

The human body is a marvel; if you want to improve on it then you can even go for Ear correction or whatever-bit(s)-of-you-requires-it enhancement. If you’re reading this (and you must be, mustn’t you?) then you know as well as I do how fantastic the human body really is. First there are physical things you can do, then there are the many things your brain can manage…One of the best being allowing you to day-dream about being on some tropical More

Hate Maps

I hate maps. I will always hate maps. As long as there are maps in the world that exist only to torment the people of this world, I will hate maps with a vengeance!

I can’t really see how the most stupid invention in the world—the maddening and ludicrous ‘folding map which can not be folded back up again without taking time off work and the help of an experienced psychologist—came to be. At one point in time, presumably in More

T-shirts, Grr

Is it just me, or are modern T-shirts a million miles away from what we used to have back in the 90s? Back in the pure, innocent, virgin hey-day of T-shirts, when a slogan was a slogan and it didn’t consist of some stupid new-school saying put together shoddily by someone who thinks Graphic Design comes free with an Apple computer, times were good. You could go T-shirt shopping with the relative security that you would not come across horrendous More

Beak< - Album Review.

I’m a big fan of Portishead, so when I heard about the new side project by Geoff Barrow I was obviously very interested.

His transient group, ‘Beak’ was formed with the help of two other musicians; Matt Williams (from Team Brick) and Billy Fuller (Fuzz against Junk). The whole idea behind the new band was to create an album that worked in the complete opposite way to Portishead. Instead of spending weeks on end trying to perfect each track, Beak More

The Technique

I have this idea about what should happen when you are fourteen: I think all children should be made to sit-in on a particularly nasty giving-birth—not only grim because of sound, vision, and torturous blood, but because of the fact that I’d have rigged this fake birth so instead of a baby coming out a horse crossed with a lama would—so that they think twice about doing the business and producing a child. I have another idea too. That is More

Making Sense

It’s easy to moan about business and how it affects the environment, isn’t it? And to some extent it makes you feel included, since it’s something most people have something to say about. But how many of us actually understand what it means to run a business? I didn’t until yesterday. I met up with a friend of mine who owns his own business and fired a few questions at him: what I heard made me realize just how ignorant More