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Maybe it's something simple

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 08:15:01 -0700

On a whim I picked up some Pork Tenderloin on the way home yesterday because, let's face it, isn't life essentially meaningless without chunks of raw swine. The phrase "existential void" is lurking, sullenly on my frontal lobes. Full ahead I thoug...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 12:09:16 -0700

This weekend I learnt to weld. And cut stuff with oxyacetylene torches. I now feel approximately 10-15% more manly than I did on Friday and it's another thing ticked off the ToDo list I keep in order to be fully prepared for the forthcoming zombie...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Tue, 12 Aug 2008 02:47:58 -0700

Whoops. It appears to be Tuesday already. Tricksy weekends and Friday weddings confusings me. In the spirit of laziness and expediency then, MORE JONATHAN GLAZER. I promise this will be the last one. Honest. Note once again the use of lighting ...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 04:01:58 -0700

I'm surfing some sort of endocrinological roller coaster here (and, apparently, mixing my metaphors with alacrity and gay abandon) suffering from the trifecta of immunocompromise, jetlag and post wedding attendance recovery. Yesterday I sat down i...

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To ease the blues away

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Tue, 29 Jul 2008 11:10:29 -0700

More bad food photography - I don't know if it's the stabiliser in my camera failing or the DTs are finally catching up with me but these came out quite blurry. That said - this ratatouille (old-style, no aubergine eggplant) came out spectacularl...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 28 Jul 2008 11:17:20 -0700

There's a saying, often misattributed to Mark Twain, about the coldest winter being summer in San Francisco. Personally, coming from a country where the summer time is measured in hours rather than months (and from the colder, northern part of the...

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90s Music Mondays

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 16:57:21 -0700

Cast your mind back to 1992 - Boutros Boutros-Ghali has just become Secretary-General of the United Nations, Windows 3.1 has just been released and the Manic Streets Preachers haven't started their determined spiral into bloated, pompous crapitude...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 12:25:22 -0700

So, in order to scratch the itch I dug through the giant pile o' stuff and dug out the Nightmares on Wax album. And lo, it's as chilled as my feverish brain remembered. Bizarrely I also dug out a copy of Paula Abdul's "Forever my Girl", a second c...

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The things you own end up owning you

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:12:00 -0700

Almost a year ago I packed my wordly belongings up into a motley collection of cardboard boxes and stashed them in a storage locker in North London waiting to get shipped to the US. Now, after various trials, tribulations, diversions and disaster...

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90s Music Monday

nobody@vox.com(Simon Wistow) — Mon, 30 Jun 2008 15:24:16 -0700

I started working 10 years ago today. Or, at least, this Monday of the month 10 years ago. It all started with a football match and probably some beer and ended up with me and a friend named Gareth walking up Liverpool Road to an interview at som...

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