I’m concerned. When Meg gets herself a fella (which can’t be far into the future), will she be less prolific at notsosoft? Hope not.
Category: old blogging
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simple pleasures: baked beans on
simple pleasures: baked beans on buttery brown bread toast. highly recommended.
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oh, and in other news:
oh, and in other news: there isn’t any. well, not that I’m confident enough about to report anyway.
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Also freshly purchased is the
Also freshly purchased is the new Rae and Christian album, Sleepwalking, which I much prefer to Northern Sulphuric Soul, although that is a good album too.
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My new book, freshly purchased
My new book, freshly purchased this morning, is Blue Light by Walter Mosley. Here’s the cover blurb:
In San Francisco in the mid 1960s, a cosmic blue light strikes people in its path, quickening their DNA, and greatly enhancing their strengths and understanding. They become the Blues, powerful yet vulnerable. And Blue Light is their story.
Narrated by Chance, a half-black, half-white follower of the Blues, the novel traces their desperate conflict with one of their own, a man who – struck by the light at the moment he died – has become the living embodiment of death.
Blue Light refracts questions of identity, race and humanity – hallmarks of Walter Mosley’s writing – through a gripping adventure that puts a dazzling new spin on the relationship between the past, present and future.I will, as usual, report back.
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Well, I’ve finished Atomised. It
Well, I’ve finished Atomised. It is certainly a disturbing and thought provoking book, with added touches of melancholy and black humour thrown in for good measure. As you get in to the book, you begin to wonder if the fairly detailed accounts of gratuitous sexual activity are merely self indulgence on the part of the author. Perhaps they are, and yet they do have relevance to the ultimate goal of the story, which is not actually revealed until the final pages, and is disturbing in itself. If you read this book, prepare to have some of your ideas challenged, and others reinforced. But beware, as the book occasionally trips over into pretentiousness, although more often than not, that is a deliberate ploy on the part of the author to further ridicule and parody the progenitors of the ideas that are the target of his polemic.
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drinks last night in the
drinks last night in the company of Sarah, Kearn, Jim, Jayne, DA, DAGS, Paul F and Dom. Tim spotted in the distance. A most mellow evening.
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tonight, I have been reminded
tonight, I have been reminded of some of the conversations that took place on Thursday night with Sarah, Paul F and Ian. and, no, I’m not going to repeat them here. cripes, I must have been really pissed!
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went for beer last night
went for beer last night in the Nags (briefly) and then headed down to W2, in the company of Arron (who is off to St Lucia for a week – envy!) and Sarah. The girls behind the bar (Claudette and Michelle) had dressed up for Comic Relief – or should I say, “undressed-up”. Al was wearing the loudest shirt in history as well, which, to be honest, was much less easy on the eye than the girls’ attire! I don’t know how much money they had by the end of the evening, but at around 10pm Michelle told me they had collected more than £300, which is pretty darned good.
Sarah came back to mine for coffee and we chewed the rag. I wasn’t in the most bouyant of moods, and can’t say I feel much more cheerful this morning (which is not helped by a hangover and awful weather). However, the new issue of wallpaper* arrived this morning, and that has helped. -
exam results in – a
exam results in – a pass and a credit, which is good, and at least means I don’t have to do them again! now I suppose I should focus a bit more on the current studying.