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posted on 21 April 2010 in Miscellaneous
I can't find another genre of entertainment that tries so hard to elicit jealousy and envy in the reader than the celebrity gossip magazine. The flipside to the green-eyed monster is schadenfreude. ...more info>>> |
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posted on 3 February 2010 in TV
OK so you can tell already I'm probably not going to review every episode of Limmy's Show. I thought Episode 2 was actually pretty good asides from all the boring World of Glasgow charact...more info>>> |
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posted on 14 January 2010 in TV
I managed to watch episode 1 of Limmy's Show (screened on BBC Scotland, 11th Jan 2010) via youtube here (1), here (2) and here (3) As with my review of the pilot show, I found this hit and mi...more info>>> |
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posted on 5 August 2009 in TV
Alan Partridge is a Radio Norfolk DJ and long-term patron of the Linton Travel Lodge (series one). He is the caricature of mediocrity (if there is such a thing). His bland, pathetic character is di...more info>>> |
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posted on 19 May 2009 in Books
This is the second book I've read from Fyodor Dostoevksy (Crime and Punishment being the first) - and already he is one of my favourite authors - up there in strange company with Martin Amis and Will ...more info>>> |
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posted on 30 March 2009 in Books
***CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS***
This story starts out with two very dispirate threads; one follows Peter, living in Chicago, who is reluctant to settle down. He picks up women in ba...more info>>> |
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posted on 14 March 2009 in Books
Tony Parsons wrote a great book called "Man and Boy" back in 2001, and returns to the same blueprint with My Favourite Wife - a story of a man putting his marriage in jeopardy by having an affair.
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posted on 3 March 2009 in Books
I'd heard many good things about Philip Roth, so I decided to buy "Exit Ghost" - it's a fairly slim novel so if I hated it I wouldn't be wasting too much of my time. It turned out to be a good read. ...more info>>> |
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posted on 1 March 2009 in Music Reviews
It's Mozzer's 50th birthday in May, but he still draws deep from the teenage angst themes of loneliness and self-loathing.
I've been a fan of The Smiths since the mid-80s, so I've followed ...more info>>> |
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posted on 27 February 2009 in Books
This is a very seductive book: no matter what page you flip to, you can get immersed in the narrative. This is what tempted me to buy it - I thought, gee this is gonna be a masterpiece!
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