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Now this is weird - Sisters Euro Pop Metal with Demon Shouty From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (2 hours old)

The Ghost Dance sent me looking for something by the sisters and I found this by a German Goth Metal band called Crematory Like the jolly synth! … more

Ghost Dance Celebrate From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (2 hours old)

I used to love this band. Formed by Gary Marx who was one of the early guitarists with the Sisters of Mercy and Anne Marie formerly of the Skeletal Family. I saw them twice, once at the Pink Toothb… more

Mexican style chicken wraps From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (2 hours old)

This is something I knocked up to use some left over salad and herbs and some reduced to clear chicken and wraps. Made six burrito style wraps which served three. First into a pan goes some oil, sm… more

Blasphemy From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (1 day old)

I see that a group of 56 Islamic countries want the international community to implement laws making blasphemy a crime. This won't do. While I can respect people having belief they must not be allo… more

Pudsey Police From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (1 day old)

They were round this morning going from desk to desk with their little bucket. Look I have nothing against charity but it pisses me off when people are coerced into it by exerting peer pressure at… more

Animal Magic Tricks? From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (1 day old)

I have tended to look upon the shuttering of local shops with quite innocent eyes. I notice when a shop has its shutters down for more than a few days, and wonder if there is a family illness, or a ho… more

Rumpy I From technomist in Armchair Revolutionaries (1 day old)

I see we have a new Holy Roman Emperor. Apparently he is from Belgium. I have no idea whether he speaks French or Flemish, or more importantly, takes mayonaise or ketchup with his chips, but we are to… more

Redbridge Takes on Newham, (Waltham Forest does nothing yet) From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (1 day old)

On a drizzly day like today we either have no planes overhead or hundreds, as they seem to fly over the clouds to where they are going or come down to the bottom of them to sneek a peak. As it happens… more

Meep From technomist in Armchair Revolutionaries (1 day old)

Here's a story from the States. Danvers High School in Massachusetts has banned students from saying the word "meep." Officials say students use the word, to disrupt school. http://www.salemne… more

I'm a Celebrity Get me in Here From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (2 days old)

where the expenses will be brill. Call me Dave's latest idea is to put Carol Vorderman in the Lords so that she could be Minister of education in a Tory cabinet. Is he having a laugh, at this ra… more

William Morris Multicultural Day Care Centre From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (2 days old)

On the opposite corner from Millenium Food and Wine at the junction of Melville Road and Erskine Road there is a slightly shabby building which houses the William Morris Multicultural Day Care Centre.… more

Hello, flying through From lyndlj in Just Me!! The Butterfly effect (2 days old)

I actually managed to get 2 numbers on last nights lottery instead of the usual 0 or 1, still four numbers off getting anywhere but hey ho the story of my life ;) Almost the weekend and I know that… more

CD Kar Electrics From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (2 days old)

CD Kar Electrics is one of those small car-related businesses whose presence in otherwise mainly residential streets really only seems to make sense when you see that they are living in one of those t… more

Köln is Great!! From MsMotty ^Pro in Linzi's blog (2 days old)

Remember what I said about no Germany? I sort of made a mistake. To be perfectly honest it was the fact that my brain worked out that I sort of would beable to go for my annual shop-and-funfest in Köl… more

Swordfish From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (2 days old)

Will I ever stay awake beyond the bit where Halle Berry is wearing those little orange pants?… more

Winter Balls From JessicaSmith ^Pro in Jessica Smith (2 days old)

Ok so I am assisting some friends with a marketing project involving Balls for Walls.... So to brighten up your walls this Winter http://www.balls4walls.co.uk … more

Lunatic Drivers From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (3 days old)

What is the problem with waiting at Traffic Lights? On my way to Sainsburys tonight this mad bitch decided not to wait at the lights but drove her fucking enormous pig ugly Rangerover around the th… more

Millennium Food and Wine From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (3 days old)

Anyone remember The Millennium? I don't. I didn't go to any memorable effort for it at all. It may have been the champagne, but I do not recall a trip down to some corruptly built shed in docklands fo… more

Emmanuel Christian Centre From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (3 days old)

At the corner of Erskine Road and Cottenham Road stands a large building with an air of use and vigour about it, called the Emmanuel Christian Centre. It is officially 102-106 Erskine Road. The gr… more

Somaliland closed down From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (3 days old)

Those local readers of this blog who are without the astonishing levels of computing power and other technologies available to Technomist may find the need to use the services of internet cafes. There… more

Erskine Road From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (3 days old)

Where Erskine Road and the High Street meet, the High Street presents this road with the frontages of GSM Mobile, Sedoo Creations, the still schizophrenic Kemer Resturant, (with a sign saying Bunter's… more

Gigantor From technomist in Late-night Bohemians (3 days old)

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Cool information about global warming From technomist in Pebbles and nature (3 days old)

Link to some interesting global warming data. No doubt someone will disagree with it. Apparently we are cooler now than we were 10 years ago (when El Nino caused a temperature spike). But the tren… more

Moorcock to write Dr Who Novel From Shipscook in Ceridwenscauldron (3 days old)

Reading the BBC News pages today I discovered that Michael Moorcock has been asked by the BBC to write an all new Dr Who novel. Ohhhhhh I thought that will be interesting given Mike's interest in mult… more

Neyo has rescheduled From JessicaSmith ^Pro in Jessica Smith (4 days old)

£2 per ticket booking fees, plus £2 postage...for people who booked through ticketmaster.. This new performance will take place at the M.E.N. Arena in Manchester on 13 February 2010… more

Mile Davis - Spanish Key From technomist in Diverse sounds (4 days old)

From Bitches Brew … more

How are we doing? From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (4 days old)

As the crappy decorations twinkle in the same old way in the High Street, and on the shrunken market traders gear up for Christmas, it is worth noting that although Wilkinson's is about to open, the r… more

St James's Street Station From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (4 days old)

There have been a few minutes of airtime given to the unsurprising news today that there are a number of shabby stations in England which are in need of improvement. Allegedly the worst is in Manchest… more

Baroness Buscombe Considers Sticking Her Unelected Nose Into the Internet From technomist in Armchair Revolutionaries (5 days old)

The Independent has it that Baroness Buscombe, chairman of the Press Complaints Commission, wants to examine the possibility that the PCC's role should be extended to cover the blogosphere. "Some o… more

Hit and Run Cyclist From technomist in Archipelago of Truth (5 days old)

It was a just over of year ago, (though it seems much fresher in my memory than that), that I had the pleasure of looking at an exhibition of the works of a well-known and much-admired local artist, V… more