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…made me smile

Posted on October 15, 2007 by blogmywiki

I’ve been slightly delirious since my visit to the hospital this morning, and lots of small things have made me giggle. Best was on the way home this evening… an Evening Standard placard reading: DEADLY SKUNK FLOODS LONDON. It really … Continue reading →

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Smile

Posted on August 6, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who was it who said, of literary criticism I think, “we murder to dissect”? Who said that writing about music was “dancing like architecture”? Well in the Guardian Guide on Saturday, Tim Jonze wrote about the comedian Josie Long. He … Continue reading →

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Jon Ronson… going up

Posted on July 7, 2007 by blogmywiki

Who’d have thunk it? Guardian magazine columnist Jon Ronson, who normally winds me up every Saturday morning, has shot up in my estimation. Apparently he recently told mad shyster David Shayler to ‘fuck off’. On Radio 4.

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My name is Jon Ronson, I live in Wisconsin, I work in the lumbermill there

Posted on May 7, 2007 by blogmywiki

Our friend Georgina and I both love to hate Jon Ronson. His Guardian column makes us both scream and yet we always read it, week in week out. That and Charlie Brooker’s TV review are the only things I always … Continue reading →

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