Wednesday, April 2,2008

My day in court

02:49 PM:
well, the back rooms of a court.
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Thursday, November 22,2007

How to make a funny film

02:36 PM:
(and why the British film industry is so crap at it)
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Monday, April 23,2007

My absence explained

06:47 PM:
Aparrently Barbra Streisand hasn't been keeping up her blog either. This strikes me as very funny.
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Wednesday, December 6,2006

R.I.P. Robert Altman

11:53 AM:
In respect to the death of the great man, here is a piece I wrote for Hotdog magazine about my favourite scenes from my favourite Altman film, 'The Long Goodbye'
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Monday, August 7,2006

Mr. Thomas part 5

02:32 PM:
In which Mr. Thomas takes the first step towards finding out who's been screwing him around...
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Monday, June 26,2006

Ski School

09:00 PM:
Written on 18 02 06, recently discovered and posted today.
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What makes me laugh in American Airports

08:45 PM:
-laugh internally, of course. Best not to laugh in these peoples' faces.
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Wednesday, October 26,2005

It's been so long since my last entry I have skipped over a period in my life containing:

02:41 PM:
--y's first birthday
London getting the Olympics
London getting bombed
Dinner with Stockhausen
'Lost' season 1, 'Arrested development' season 3, 'Curb your enthusiasm' season 5.
Various Blunt Clubs, work related stuff.
Being tortured by the Chinese
And sleeping in a parked car outside Rochester between 2am and 4.30am with a Frenchman.
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Tuesday, August 9,2005

Really bad jet lag.

01:23 PM:
For anyone remotely interested, a description of how my return from the US affected my sleep.

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Friday, June 17,2005

Chain letters

08:44 PM:
I am writing this in response to the mail I have recently recieved exhorting the sender to send copies to all their friends.
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Wednesday, March 16,2005

My dusty past

03:10 AM:
Forgive me for not writing anything for the last two months but I've been delving into my past.

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Thursday, January 6,2005

The Letter

11:02 PM:
I got a letter today that infuriated me more than any I had received for some time. I was so angry I shredded it immediately and then shredded the envelope it came in for good measure.
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Friday, October 22,2004

I'm in too deep

03:37 PM:
There's no getting out of it, In too deep, no doubt about it...
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Wednesday, October 20,2004

It's competition time!

05:19 PM:
Your chance to win... er... a mini mars bar or something.
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Wednesday, October 6,2004

It's the cold talking.

10:59 PM:
Or is it writing?
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Monday, September 20,2004

The baby and the bins

09:11 PM:
The house is full of food. Good stuff, too, not the crap we usually eat.
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Wednesday, September 15,2004

It's a girl!

07:34 PM:
--y was born yesterday at 7pm

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Saturday, September 4,2004

Edinburgh and beyond

01:57 AM:
My plans for the future
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Sunday, June 13,2004

Today's Sunday

11:03 PM:
I pass this on with little comment; just the facts
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Tuesday, June 1,2004

Is this any way to run a psyche?

11:25 AM:
Details of a dream I had the other day
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Saturday, April 24,2004

More. Water. Yeah.

02:54 PM:
Who is the wise man, and who is the fool? you decide...
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Oh I don't know. A quickie.

02:50 PM:
This is a collection of events so brief they only just hit the radar.
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Sunday, April 11,2004

Re: the previous entry

06:54 PM:
There's been a bit of reaction to the last entry- I've been told I'm having a mid-life crisis.
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Friday, March 5,2004

What a night I had last night

02:37 PM:
It's got to rank as one of the worst ever.
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Thursday, March 4,2004

A Haiku for you

07:08 PM:
Ahem. Here I go...
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Wednesday, March 3,2004

Mr Thomas part 4

04:56 PM:
Part four of the unpopular and critically ignored 'Mr Thomas' story. In this part (a bit shorter than usual) Mr Thomas asks some advice from a fat guy he hardly knows...
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Wednesday, February 25,2004

I'm sorry you had to hear it here, and not in person

08:03 PM:
But we're going to have another kid...
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Friday, January 2,2004

Happy New Year (god I'm lazy)

08:09 AM:
Also: Happy Birthday --m, Merry Christmas and everything else I haven't bothered writing about
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Friday, November 7,2003

Back after a long absence

07:53 PM:
and in all probability before another long absence
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Friday, September 26,2003

Yes yes I know I haven't made an entry in ages.

12:45 AM:
Stick it up your arse, will you?
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Tuesday, August 5,2003

Mr Thomas part 3

03:26 PM:
The next installment of the story. For parts 1 and 2 scroll down the page.
Apologies for the weird quotation marks. This computer has a german keyboard and I'm buggered if I can work out how to do English punctuation on it.

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Monday, August 4,2003

Vienna again

12:31 PM:
And it's time for more stories about the kids (yawn...)
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Thursday, July 10,2003

I have been feeling the urge to write something.

07:32 PM:
Usually I find it hard to drag myself to the keyboard and tap something out (don’t we all?) but if I leave it too long words start flying around in my head.

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I know it's been a while but something odd's up.

07:25 PM:
I'm sure that some of the entries I've made have been deleted.
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Tuesday, May 27,2003

I have a confession to make

11:53 PM:
It is possible that I have set back Humankind's first contact with an alien race by many years.
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Wednesday, May 21,2003

I was a Zombie today!

09:20 PM:
A little childhood (well, more like teenage-hood) dream came true today...
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Monday, April 21,2003

kiddie tag team - a game for two players

01:27 AM:
Objective: To reduce a parent or carer to a physical and emotional wreck
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Saturday, April 19,2003

Random acts in Vienna with a four year old

09:45 PM:
Took ---y to th Technisches Museum in Vienna today (that's the Science museum for you non-German speakers)
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Monday, April 14,2003

a double edged sword has been brandished at my blog

05:40 PM:
A poetic way of announcing that this blog has come to the attention of certain people. This entry contains an explanation of what a 'Public Albatross System' is.
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Thursday, March 27,2003

I'm beginning to wonder about my acupuncturist...

09:32 PM:
First, I'd like to say that Dr -u has done more than any other person to improve the quality of my life by bringing my eczema under control. BUT...
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Thursday, March 20,2003

something happened which hasnt happened for a long time

12:01 AM:

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Tuesday, March 11,2003

random stuff in my life right now

10:05 PM:
A snapshot of my life as at 10pm on march 11th 2003
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Monday, February 24,2003

Mr Thomas Chapter 2

01:22 PM:
The second part of something which started as a short story and due to popular demand is now getting longer. If you haven't read part one then scroll down and read it first otherwise nothing will make sense...

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Thursday, February 13,2003

I've been in Blue Hell

01:46 AM:
Or BlueYonder hell, to give it it's full name.

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Monday, January 27,2003

Very busy weekend

01:35 PM:
Friday night I was organising the Blunt Club's first ever film 'n' comedy show, Saturday was the second of ---y's 4th birthday parties.
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Thursday, January 9,2003

Today I am 32

09:51 PM:
Happy Birthday to me
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Wednesday, January 1,2003

Happy New Year (god I'm tired)

08:16 AM:
So that's it for 2002
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Monday, December 30,2002

Happy Birthday, --m

02:01 PM:
A quick note to say Happy 1st Birthday to little --m, which was on the 28th.
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Xmas turkey feast part 2

01:11 PM:
Time for the trimmings, sauces and peripherals...

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Sunday, December 29,2002

Turkey with all the trimmings

07:10 AM:
A fairly simple guide to the preparation of a Christmas lunch/dinner for about 8 people.
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Wednesday, December 18,2002

What the fuck am I doing awake at this ungodly hour?

05:33 AM:
Not that time means an awful lot on the internet...
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Time to plug a site

05:25 AM:
Here's a little number I tossed off a while back
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Monday, December 16,2002

Take a bow, Stig...

09:09 PM:
OK, now the blog's up and running I'd like to introduce the man who made it all happen
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Mr Thomas

05:45 PM:
Part one of a short story
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Wednesday, December 11,2002

very first entry

08:49 PM:
I am writing this from behind closed doors. Not only literally but metaphorically, too.
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