Isn’t food brilliant? Can’t get enough of it. It’s a damn good job that eating, something you have to do so you don’t die, is also something that can be so pleasurable. Other than overcooked liver in school, the time I mistook taramasalata for strawberry ice cream, and the times when my mother deceitfully tried [...]
When John McCain appeared on this news this morning talking about how he had suspended his presidential campaign to tackle the financial crisis, and that he had asked Barack Obama to do the same, something smelt fishy and therefore ruined my breakfast cereal. When it turned out that Obama had in fact already called McCain [...]
The throng exited the train this morning at London Bridge at the same time as hundreds of other people, and that whole ‘wall of people’ thing got going, the one where your steps get short and fast as if you’re all moving a phalanx into formation, and the station attendents open the gates to prevent [...]
I have to get a TV recorder thing. It dawned on me last night without the benefit of a TV recorder thing that TV really is shite. Whole hours pass with nothing good to watch, making watching without a TV recorder thing unfeasible now. I have Freeview, because I like the idea that you don’t [...]
Scientists working on the world’s biggest machine are being besieged by phone calls and emails from people who fear the world will end next Wednesday, when the gigantic atom smasher starts up.
Such is the angst that the American Nobel prize winning physicist Frank Wilczek of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology has even had death [...]
A BBC News journalist this morning commented on how, during John McCain’s speech at the Republican Convention, the crowd started shouting “USA! USA! USA!” in a seemingly spontaneous fit of patriotic fervour. It made me laugh to then read Michael Tomasky’s article in the Guardian where he explained that the reason the chanting started was [...]
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