Monthly Archives: April 2008

King Missile: Detachable Penis

Posted on April 24, 2008 by Charles Lambert

If you don’t visit Joe.My.God (and you should, you should), you won’t see videos like this. Which would be an awful shame.

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Shopping

Posted on April 21, 2008 by Charles Lambert

One of the most intriguing aspects of last week’s elections here in Italy – perhaps the only intriguing aspect – is that so far no one has cried Brogli! Broglio is the catch-all phrase for the dirty business that goes … Continue reading →

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Little Monsters: Guardian review

Posted on April 19, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Another review of Little Monsters, this time from The Guardian. It’s the sort of review that’s best described as mixed. Mixed, as in: The parts of the book dealing with Carol’s adolescence are very good indeed, but the more contemporary … Continue reading →

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Peace-keeping

Posted on April 18, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Thanks to the FAIL blog for this.

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Labels (part three)

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Two more labels: toilet paper: zeffirelli

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Speakers’ corner

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Charles Lambert

I went to get my hair cut today. I tend to put this off, not because I’m fond of longish hair on middle-aged men; on the contrary. But, well, barbers tend to be talkative, in the way that dentists and … Continue reading →

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Pure as the driven slush

Posted on April 17, 2008 by Charles Lambert

There’s an interesting post by Mary Jones on the Picador blog, about slush piles (which gives me the opportunity to recycle in my title Tallulah Bankhead’s pitiless analysis of herself). If you read it, don’t miss my comment. Talking about … Continue reading →

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Labels: memory (part two)

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

There’s a limit to the number of labels a post can have. This is part two of the precding post: young people: unsynthesised manifoldplum: maplouise bourgeois: mannersmadonna: librariesmother: received truthnico: moral relativism That’s enough for now…

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Labels: memory

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

Too many of my labels have been used once and once only. It’s uneconomical, and slightly sad, so I’ve decided to repeat my earlier bonding exercise, in which I take two otherwise isolated labels and unite them. It’s a little … Continue reading →

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Adult content

Posted on April 16, 2008 by Charles Lambert

You may have noticed a new widget called Entrecredits appear on the right hand side of this blog, down near the ‘translator’. In my insane desire to increase my readership and eventually dominate the world, I sign up to pretty … Continue reading →

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