Category: Entertainment
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World Ignorance Championships
The World Ignorance Championships This was originally an event that was instigated in the early 1950s by Immingham Brown. Brown was a man who had been a particularly unsuccessful spy during the war years, and he realised that the one thing that he was good at was being ignored and ignoring things. He set about…
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I Saw Her Standing There
This is an interactive story that I wrote on Twitter, I wrote it unplanned based on suggestions and votes from Twitter followers. It was written and posted as is, only stopping briefly for a spelling check. Writing is usually so far removed in time from it being written to it being read, I just wondered…
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Music? Call that music?
It’s just a noise. People who say that music was best in a certain decade, you know that they are wrong, don’t you? Unutterably, brain-meltingly, quantifiably wrong. It’s okay to be wrong sometimes though. I should know, I do it all of the time. Come on in, the confusion is just the right temperature. They…
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Trite Entertainment
Originally posted on my old blog on October 17th, 2016. Okay, let’s get this out of the way – I hate what is usually termed “light entertainment” or “family entertainment” I have a passionate love for things like Morecambe & Wise, The Two Ronnies and so on. No, the sort of thing I do not…
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State of play.
Originally posted on my old blog on September 24th, 2016. This afternoon I decided that I wanted to play a game that I had not played for a while. I put the disc in, UPDATE NEEDED. To any modern gamer, this is to be expected really, but it is always galling when you do not…
