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FOREVER 21 store, Cerritos Mall. 10mm focal length, ISO 400, 1/10 […] FOR some reason I’ve recently become a huge fan of iced tea. I think it’s because it’s not as gassy as Coke and because it’s slightly less dehydrating than coffee. Drinking cold tea over ice with lemon obviously goes against every atom of my Britishness as tea should be served hot, strong and with milk. But the iced stuff tastes good and, from Ev’s point of view, anything that cuts down on my dinosaur-roar burps in restaurants is good with her. Iced coffee, on the other hand, is something I’ve never got in to. But when I saw Starbucks’ […] August 24th, 2010 | Category: TV | Leave a comment THERE was a pretty horrific smash near us on the Peninsula last night. Two cars which may have been racing crashed, one into the Peninsula sign. The Mustang’s three passengers were thrown from the car and killed and the driver is in critical condition. The driver and passenger of the other car, a Ford Taurus, legged it and were picked up near our apartment building. Ev saw all the police and fire lights when she came home from a friend’s at about midnight (I stayed home to catch up on my horror-movie watching). Shame I didn’t go as I’d doubtless have had […] httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XxScTbIUvoA (Today would have been HP Lovecraft’s 120th birthday. Hope he avoided the Mountains of […] Dear Long Beach Police Department: Correct me if I’m wrong, but if I was to blow through a stop sign/red light, or drive at night without lights, or drive on the wrong side of the road, or drive down the middle of the road blocking other traffic, or drive across junctions causing other motorists to slam on their brakes, or weave back and forth across lanes, or (and this is my all-time favourite) drive down the wrong side of the road at night with no lights, you’d be writing me tickets from now til 2020. Right? So why is it that I see cyclists […] THE A4120 heading to Aberystwyth, […] SWEET zombie Jesus, Francis Spufford’s I May Be Some Time: Ice And The English Imagination is boring. Boooooor-ing. How you can take something as fascinating as Arctic/Antarctic exploration and make it so deadly dull is beyond me. “Hey,” Mr Spufford must have thought, “I’ll dedicate an entire chapter to Edmund Burke’s ruminations on the flooding of the River Liffey”. You do that, Francis; I’ll be over here reading a much more interesting book. Ev, don the Raiments of Happiness and prepare to perform the Dance of Rejoicing, for I’m about to get rid of […] AFTER giving up on My L.A. I picked up Monica Dickens’s My Turn To Make The Tea, her semi-autobiographical account of working as a junior reporter on a provincial paper in the late 1940s/early 50s. The book is pretty lightweight (I got through it in a night) and very witty and engaging. There’s no real plot but that doesn’t matter as the book’s entertaining enough. Dickens’ character Poppy describes the day-to-day life of being the only female reporter on the Downingham Post, the frustrations and chauvinism she experiences as she tries to add some sparkle to the deadly dull pages, and the […] |
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