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Just found a good series of anecdotes in The Independent's media section on interviews with musicians that have gone wrong.
It has some gems including Mark E Smith being drunk and abusive (not all that surprising); a Smash Hits editor vomiting on Mariah Carey; a Sounds reporter accidentally calling shit Joe Strummer a […]

Oxford thrives on a strange antagonistic relationship between “town” and “gown” - the university and the city. In the same way that whatever the tricep on your arm does, the bicep does the opposite, so these two follow an equal yet opposite route.
So while large chunks of Oxford, owned by the university, have […]

After alot of farting about, I have finally shifted over to Vodafone and got myself a new phone that *will* actually pick up my email. Not only that but I have just realised (not for the first time) that I am living in the future - the future that was hilariously documented every week […]

Oxford is called the “City of Dreaming Spires” and I have to say these are my favourite two - All Souls'. This pic was taken from the back of them, when strolling down the strange New College Lane.

I'd taken a nice photo of a yellow punt at this point earlier in the day and wanted to get a snap of all the punts when tied up for the night. I like this.

I like this - the warm setting sun, the pavement of Oxford's famous High Street, the silhouette of a bicycle and two people strolling off together.

I must have looked at Magdelen College a hundred times but I only just noticed the bishop with the wagging figure as if on the bow of a ship. It was a lovely day too and the different light and shadows on the different parts of the building gave the shot a nice depth […]

I was strolling over Magdelen Bridge on a hot lazy Sunday (actually 21 August) when I caught sight of this yellow punt and immediately thought it would make a great pic. I had my camera to hand and it inspired a photo-spree of Oxford. I made my way back to this point late that […]

Podcasts are the new exciting thing - they are webcasts of recorded programs named after the iPod. Except, as I have just discovered, you cannot actually record anything but the most basic sound on an iPod - making the name utterly misleading.
I am a bit annoyed as the main reason for me finally […]

I knew it, I , sadly, just knew it. One of my hobbies is to spot patterns of where otherwise normal people become suckers - and then try to apply those patterns to current events.
The most useful application of this came when a long, long time before the invasion of Iraq, I was […]