Shortlist 2004
Thomas Cook expressed concern at Tom’s reluctance to embrace travel writing and quickly drew up a shortlist for 2004.
I’m halfway through The Factory of Light (Michael Jacobs), but the others are unknown to me.[…]

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NIGHT TIME MILK – the results!
i. It is tasty stuff, good quality organic milk, a nice creamy burr to it but never claggy, exactly what you think a glass of milk should be like.
ii. Immediately after drinking it I went to bed and […]

Whether it’s a silly season story or not, the credibility of the Woodward to football rumours demonstrates yet another way in which ‘sound business principles’ are making their way into football. The objectification of management &#[…]

Gareth’s postcard collection[…]

Final reel fandango
Randomly turning on the telly on a lazy day at the home of your choice is a good way to catch the best bits (i.e. the last half-hour) of films that you can’t be arsed watching all the way through. As it so happened this las[…]

“I have always been delighted by Deleuze’s disdain for ‘travelling’”: K-Punk’s holiday write-ups (scroll up on the main page of his site for some stuff on Portmeiron). I can’t claim more than the most nodding aquai[…]

“Margaret Meehan, Parkdale?”
Don’t know how this will translate to the Brits but I never do, did y’all have SCTV over there ever? Did it become a cult over there the way it did over here with lonely kids who stayed up way too […]

In August 2004 Blog Seven was a weblog about London.[…]

Ordinarily, I wouldn’t give a crap about the Kobe Bryant rape trial, but check out this article :
The Science of the Brief Encounter
It looks to be a well-researched overview of the key physical evidence in the case (incl. DNA evidence). The […]

Next up, the Earth twins — if the results hold, looks like we’ve now found evidence of Neptune-sized planets around other stars, and predictions are more are on the way. No visual sightings of these small ones for a long time, if ever, f[…]