It’s the last day of the year, so here are my top several things of 2010. I haven’t bothered to create an artificial five or ten of everything, partly because my consumption of cultural artefacts doesn’t really merit it and partly because I like to keep it fresh and unpredictable, like a game of snooker [...]
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You are at the archive for the December, 2010
A sizeable post about Roy Hodgson and Liverpool
I’ve never previously written here about Liverpool FC, since I figure not that many people are interested. But I can’t hold back any longer. I have to get it off my chest. So here goes. At the end of last season I felt it was the right time for Rafael Benitez to go. He seemed [...]
Mick Hucknall, Sex (Pistols), Baudrillard, Thora Hird.
Did Mick Hucknall actually sleep with 3,000 women in three years during the 1980s, as the Guardian claims today? Plainly the mathematics, if you care to consider them, which I don’t especially want to but sadly must, isn’t on his side since it involves somewhere close to 2.75 “insertions” per day – and Viagra wasn’t [...]
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