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Blog! For once it's refreshing to find a weblog as conventional as lipglosslolita -- and that isn't a criticism. As I've men...

Engineering There is an escalator at Liverpool Central underground station which has never worked. When I was a kid I used to run up the ...

TV I remember the aired pilot for 'South Park'. Not this one , the one in which Cartman gets a satalite dish stuck up his ass; in...

Physiology I'm not sure whether I'm left or right handed. I hold my pen in my right, but this is also where I hold my fork a tradi...

Site News Evening. Thank you to all the nice people who contacted me regarding the possible demise of the weblog because of 'hosting ...

Quiz! I taste like beef. I'm probably made of beef. You are what you eat, they say, and if the title didn't mean something else, I w...

Journalism Every now and then The Guardian reprints an article from an online source, usually Salon . Although they've been including...

News Every summer someone in Surrey will complain about a hosepipe ban. Perhaps if they read the top news story in Moldova they may have ...

Blog! Black Robot has been feeling a touch of insomnia: "4:00am ... Still awake. The room is bathed a deep blue color from the TV. ...

Food I'm notorious for not being able to take my drink. I can just about handle a Budweiser or a Rolling Rock -- anything else and I ...

Game Shows Dave Gorman was once deeply disturbed to find that one of his namesakes plays Scrabble with his wife every lunch time and recor...

Music Sometimes a voice is so expressive and silencing that words fail. I first heard Eva Katzler on the EP 'Poem' she put out i...

TV As an update to Off The Telly's remarkable history of British Breakfast Televsion , Media Guardian uncovers the replacement for Ch...

Sport Feeling conflicted. My boyhood footballing heroes Everton are playing my new friends at Middlesborough on Saturday. May the best...

Time It's always strange at the end of a week's holiday. Time is slipping away until the vacation version of me reverts to the vo...

Blog! Anna Kiss is posting again: "there are moments when i feel happy and alive and well. then there are moments where my heart fe...

Blog! When I first named this weblog I originally invisioned it as a place to let off steam -- somewhere I could be mean spirited and ugly...

Food At first you would think Milk Bottle Of The Week would be a definitive candidiate for 'the worst of the web', but it's s...