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Age: 33
Sign: Sagittarius

State: London and South East
Country: UK
Signup Date: 7/30/2006

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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 
It's been a while since I posted, and this first post of the New Year also happens to be the last.

I've decided to move my musings and moans to the dependable blogger.com blogging site (dependable in that it's a little more tolerate of Apple's operating system).

If you decide to move along with me then thank you in advance otherwise I appreciate your readership for the last two years.

Bye!

http://now-what-nish.blogspot.com/
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Friday, October 31, 2008 
It's funny that even the most mundane every day things can appear strange or unusual in a non-familiar environment. This feeling, for me, has been more pronounced in Japan than anywhere else.

I saw this arresting sight (note the sign) in Shinjuku not far from the railway station. I've had about three (at most) Krispy Kremes in my life and they were all consumed within the last three months too. I'd take my place in any queue of course but my patience (and sugar craving) doesn't run longer than this line.

From Blogger Pictures
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Oceans Apart
By The Go-Betweens
Release date: 2005-05-03
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Friday, October 31, 2008 
The title's slightly misleading in that I've not just read that particular book but it does happen to be the last new book that has passed my eyes (I recently re-read William Gibson's Virtual Light and also The Hobbit).

I wish I could dazzle you all with some profound thoughts. something to add to the acclaim and praise Rushdie has already received for his sophomore effort (a Booker and two Booker of Booker awards). The truth is that I don't have much to offer at all.

I will say that I enjoyed the book on the whole. However, I don't mind admitting that there was a stage where I could have simply stopped reading altogether. This had nothing to do with the novel's fantastical elements though which seemed perfectly in place with the tumultuous events captured by the narrative.

It's probably the best of the Booker novels I have read although there's no escaping the fact that this is a small list indeed (Roddy Doyle's and James Kelman's winners although I do have Kiran Desai's somewhere).
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Fantasy Black Channel
By Late of the Pier
Release date: 2008-07-22
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 
There was an interview with a Democrat politician on the BBC World Service the other day which raised a chuckle.

In his view America's standing had fallen in the eyes of the world during the Bush administration (surprise, surprise). It had squandered goodwill by its various global activities such as the war in Iraq.

He continued to rattle of more of America's ills and finished off by moaning that it still couldn't pronounce the word 'nuclear'.
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Music Has the Right to Children
By Boards of Canada
Release date: 2004-03-23
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 
There was a snippet in Simon Hoggart's column in last Saturday's Guardian which really made me laugh, i.e. it was sick.

He was recounting a meeting with some publishers and of their conversation regarding 'misery memoirs' (something you should recall that I dislike intensely).

Apparently, the group had fun trying to find the worst title for a possible Christmas bestseller.

The winner? No, Grandad, not on my face.
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Forever Delayed
By Manic Street Preachers
Release date: 2002-10-29
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Sunday, October 12, 2008 
The title gives it away but what the hell...

A middle-aged couple came in to collect their Samsung camera today. It was back from repair so the wife wanted to test it first. I told her to go ahead. She gave it to her husband and whilst he fiddled about with it she read the engineer's notes (they fixed the barrel assembly gears FYI).

The woman mentioned to me that it was so-and-sos camera (her daughter, I presumed) and fished a memory card from her purse to give to her husband so he could take a picture. He managed to do so but couldn't preview the shot.

Clearly exasperated by her husband's lack of prowess she handed the unit to me. I pressed the preview button and was faced with a snap of presumed daughter with her lips around a large cock. Flustered, I flicked ahead and was confronted with a landscape shot of the still faceless man (and his knob) at rest.

I handed the camera back and told the woman I couldn't look through the pictures because they were of a rude nature (in hindsight I should have been more diplomatic and said "personal"). She said that her daughter (again she used the young woman's name rather than the word 'daughter') had alluded to the nature of some of the photos.

The camera was handed back to me and I was asked take some test shots, which I did. I was afraid that the photos wouldn't process and that I would have cock and balls thrust in my face (so to speak) once more, but thankfully two innocuous pictures of the store's wall were previewed in succession.

I can laugh now.
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Best-Second Session
Release date: 2006-03-14
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Friday, October 10, 2008 
Myspace hates Mac OS X.

Regardless of whether or not I use Safari (my current browser) I can't do anything beyond producing plain text on this blog. Even if I want to italicise something or increase text size I have to produce the HTML tags (something you should have already noticed).

This is a roundabout way of saying that I wanted to post something with a picture yesterday and couldn't. This was after arseing around with uploading it to an online host too.

Anyway, the post I was going to...er...post will have to wait until I sift through my previous entries for the correct HTML code. So...yeah.
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Folklore
Release date: 2007-10-09
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 
How are you for money?

I ask this because the store was packed last weekend. People were buying laptops and TVs as per usual. It was mind-boggling...well, at least my mind was boggled.

It seemed to me that people were of the mind that their money wasn't going to get them very far in the tough times ahead so the best thing to do would be to spend it now.

Of course, I don't expect the current situation will mean everyone will stop spending (although the weekdays have been extremely quiet) but I guess I was expecting a little prudence.

It'll be interesting to see what happens this Christmas.
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BEST ~ first things ~
By Kumi Koda
Release date: 2005-10-03
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Friday, October 03, 2008 
You know what I've missed due to my infrequent appearances at Myspace?

That's right! All those friend requests from blokes with get-rich-quick schemes and women who want me to gawk at their tits.

In fact I received a request from someone from the latter category just after I submitted the previous post.

I did what I usually do: gawk and deny.

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Leucocyte
By E.S.T.
Release date: 2008-09-30
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Friday, October 03, 2008 


Have you been keeping up with American politics?

Admittedly, I only read what's in the Guardian, and even then I only really take notice when there's a report of a great gaffe or sleazy scandal. Thankfully, the arrival of Sarah Palin has ensured a healthly flow of the former.

It's really rather rich that someone with my level of knowledge of US politics, i.e. fuck all, should take delight in the mishaps involving America's most famous hockey mom. However, it's increasingly apparent that we aren't too far apart (let's say we're Alaska and Russia) when it comes to the strength of our knowledge base.

Mrs Palin is now becoming notorious for dodging questions entirely and offering rapid collection of words in answer. Recently, she couldn't even say what newspapers or magazines she read in relation to her knowledge of world events and current affairs. True, Dan Quayle couldn't spell "potato" but I'm sure he could come up with the title of at least one publication.

Yet what fills some people with fear (notably Democrats and liberals) is that this is Mrs Palin's strength.

A Republican supporter interviewed on the BBC World Service praised her down-to-earth, Middle America way of speaking which was free from stats and facts. A Democrat on the same programme said that this method of address was actually condescending to Middle America because it was this section of the country that was most in need of policy talk. The Republican then retorted that if this somehow how made her below Middle America then so be it. (There then followed comments from another Republican who described the Bush administration as Socialist, which gives you an idea of the level of debate.)

Yes, my left of centre stance does make me biased towards the Democrat candidates (though even I can't ignore that Joe Biden has made a fair few mistakes too) but in the end it doesn't really matter what I think. The outcome will have some effect on me as a British citizen but ultimately it's the Americans who get to decide what is best for their country.

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Accelerate
By R.E.M.
Release date: 2008-04-01
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