Monthly Archives: July 2008

Live fast, die young…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 30, 2008

… but do it right. That’s the message I’m getting. I noticed the somewhat unsympathetic response to the news that “troubled” singer Amy Winehouse spent a night in hospital following an “adverse reaction to medication” on a local forum and I couldn’t help but compare it with the reaction to news of the death of Heath “Keith” Ledger [...]

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End of an era…

By 6000 | 6000 | July 28, 2008

Was zooming around the BBC News website, as I am wont to do from time to time, when I came across this story. An iconic floating nightclub based on the river Tyne for 15 years is to be towed away at the weekend. The Tuxedo Princess ship, with its legendary revolving dance floor, is being [...]

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The Dark Hype

By 6000 | 6000 | July 27, 2008

I’m not a big fan of films and the cinema. Even less so when the hype surrounding a particular film means that suddenly, “normal” people can talk of nothing else except the latest offering from Hollywood. Gone are the important discussions about important things – politics, football, money, work – replaced instead by pseudo-knowledgeable comment about [...]

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Zuma “shocked and embarrassed”

By 6000 | 6000 | July 24, 2008

Not by allegations that he showers to protect himself from HIV, nor by his pending corruption charges, but by white poverty in South Africa. The head of South Africa’s governing African National Congress, Jacob Zuma, has said he is shocked and embarrassed about white poverty in the country. Mr Zuma was speaking after visiting the [...]

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Delaying arrest with Sad and Rad

By 6000 | 6000 | July 23, 2008

You know the problem. You’ve gone and murdered a few thousand ethnically different people and now the nanny state authories are unhappy for some reason and they want to arrest you and take you to Holland. And we’re not talking special cafes and scantily-dressed ladies in Amsterdam – we’re talking war crimes courts in The Hague, [...]

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