Reasoned Debate

I’m sure by now you’ve all seen the excellent Super Size Me, the entertaining documentary in which New York filmmaker Morgan Spurlock demonstrates that eating exclusively at McDonald’s for a month will, gasp, make you fat. Sal and I caught it a couple of weeks ago, and thoroughly enjoyed it. Of course it’s a one-sided polemic, but it’s a very funny one-sided polemic, and, unlike watching, say, a Michael Moore documentary, you don’t spend most…

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Blog Fodder

Someone must have been paying attention lately, because shortly after writing the entry below apologising for my lack of updates, I was rewarded with not one, but two encounters with blog-worthy nutters. The first was the elderly lady sitting opposite Sal and myself on the tube on Saturday afternoon. At her feet, she had three or four plastic carrier bags containing copies of tabloid newspapers, which she proceeded to tear into small pieces and throw…

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Stroke of Genius

Top marks, today, to the brilliant minds at Metronet, Tfl and WAGN trains, who have decided, in their infinite wisdom, that for the next year or so while the escalators at Moorgate are being replaced, WAGN trains will not be stopping there, but will instead terminate at Old Street, the stop before. Until today, my daily change of trains from WAGN to the Northern line at Moorgate has been about as easy as changing trains…

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Normal Service, Resuming Shortly

I guess I should apologise, on the off chance that there’s anyone actually out there still reading this, for my lack of updates (aside from the occasional celebrity spotting haiku) over the past month. It’s not like I’ve been short of things to write about, (although a funny incident on the tube or at a gig slightly pales into insignificance against the sort of things that Rob has been recounting in his fascinating updates from…

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Celebrity Spotting Haiku #2

In the row in front, At the Richard Herring show, Emma Kennedy I’m not sure if that really counts, but as I never see celebrities around town, I have to make the most of everything I can get: On Saturday, Sal and I popped into the West End to see the finished version of the Richard Herring show that we had seen previewed back in July. Despite my impression that we might turn out to…

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Celebrity Spotting Haiku #1

Bloke off Grand Designs by the Thames at Tower Bridge, filming some new show. UPDATE: Gutted. So excited to have finally spotted a celebrity around town, and now I discover, thanks to PopBitch’s Hasselwatch that none other than Mr Michael Knight himself has been to London’s The London Dungeon recently, just a short walk from my new office. Must get out a lunchtime a bit more often.

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Australia vs Pakistan

This weekend’s gloriously sunny Saturday saw me pay my first ever visit to Lord’s. The occasion was a pre-ICC tournament warm-up between Australia and Pakistan, and despite the exorbitant ticket prices (especially considering it was only a friendly), almost every Australian I’d ever met in London was there too, along with many more I hadn’t met besides (if you’d wanted to pick a good day to start burgling houses in the Shepherd’s Bush, Acton and…

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