As the teams start to drop like flies and my coverage becomes more and more negligent, you may start to wish that it wasn't thirty degrees outside. That way we could get on with our duties with no fuss. I could write endlessly into the abyss and you could focus on your work rather than … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Day 9 – 14 – Round-up
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On Podcasts -Russell Brand, Ed Milliband, Sam Harris, James O’brien, Bob Mortimer, Adam Buxton, etc.
Life has been derailed by the World Cup, as evidenced by the above and below posts. As the World Cup has infested all my waking hours (not spent job hunting). Podcasts have continued with periodic certainty and somehow made me feel slightly better about life. This is an attempt to sneak in some more content and … Continue reading On Podcasts -Russell Brand, Ed Milliband, Sam Harris, James O’brien, Bob Mortimer, Adam Buxton, etc.
World Cup 2018 – Day 8
Summer in the British Isles is a curious thing, you spend months wishing for it in all its glory and then spend the days inside watching football when it arrives. Or I do, anyway. In an effort to avoid this exact situation, I made plans to excommunicate myself. A timely homage to Stalinist Russia. My … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Day 8
World Cup 2018 – Days 3-7 – Round-up
It's fair to say that with the tight schedule of football, exhaustion is setting in - for me. I managed the big Saturday and followed it up with a big Sunday - in which Mexico beat Germany! The big Saturday was a long day with lots of football, the big Sunday was a long day … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Days 3-7 – Round-up
World Cup 2018 – Day 2
All the signs were there. They read Portugal vs Spain - 7pm. But few could have anticipated that what we would witness would be something as magical as that. That is only partly true. The definable magic of the world cup is perhaps why we all watch it? When Danny Murphy repeats "Unbelievable!" three times … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Day 2
World Cup 2018 – Day 1
And, we're off... Strangely, to the sound of Robbie Williams. There was a sound in the UK of a collective, growing "aaahhhh..." as everyone suddenly realised that Robbie Williams is an archetypal Russian popstar. Could it be that Robbie Williams is a Russian plant too? Anyway, his sarcastic, Anglophilic, coked-up swagger put in mind an … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Day 1
World Cup 2018 – Predictions and Introduction
The greatest players in the world have assembled. The teams have been announced. Now, we all wait... Now that the worlds greatest have assembled at the G7 and SCO and ordained to let us have our fun, we may prepare for the biggest event the world has ever seen - not impending nuclear war, … Continue reading World Cup 2018 – Predictions and Introduction
On… Television
In accordance with my last post, I'm going to chunder out a mass review of all the tv I watched over the exam period. I kept a list and everything. Also in accordance with the last post, the generally confused and subjective tone. The general formula of TV is formula. Do it once, well. Well, do … Continue reading On… Television
Theory and Praxiszzzz
As I attempt to synthesise a semesters worth of sociological theory alongside a semester of unwritten posts and scribbles from a notebook, do not lose heart. There will be a point to all of this. The life of an anonymous, poorly-subscribed-to online lifestyle brand is a lonely one. The nature of living our creative existence … Continue reading Theory and Praxiszzzz
A letter of thanks – by way of out of date review and a bad poem.
I wrote a long diatribe, a review, before Mr Hummels came into being, about Frightened Rabbit. The review which I wrote focused on the intense brilliance of Frightened Rabbit - in the intimate setting of Princess St HMV. It was the first event of this sort which I had been to alone and felt an … Continue reading A letter of thanks – by way of out of date review and a bad poem.
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