Wait until next year

Putting off what could be done tomorrow, today

Category: not sport

It shouldn’t matter to you

Razzmatazz is the great forgotten Pulp single. I remember picking up the 12″ single in a bargain bin of a local record shop, the kind of record shop that doesn’t exist anymore. It wasn’t particularly fancy, was geared more to mainstream stuff and that appeared to be what it sold. So, if you liked a more obscure song, it paid to wait a few weeks and then sift through the bargain bin. It was a good and cheap way of discovering new bands, or at least hearing bands I’d read about but couldn’t hear on the radio. Read the rest of this entry »

Sunday Reading

Church sign

This week I have been reading/planning to read/pretending to read the following. Hopefully you’ll find something of interest amongst it all.

Image by Neil Krug, via Flickr

The return of Frank Bascombe

Coastline post-Hurricane Sandy

Potentially rather exciting news for fans of Richard Ford with reports of him reading from a new Frank Bascombe story. Ford has written three books focusing on the character, and I am a huge fan of themRead the rest of this entry »

Beavertown and The Great Escape

Beavertown Brewery banner

The finest pint is the earned pint. After a proper day’s work there are few things better than that first sip of beer. Now, as something of a desk jockey by trade I don’t really have many days that genuinely deserve a drink of that nature as I’m not exactly physically exerting myself as I write reports/complete spreadsheets/answer dumb questions from colleagues/stare at a screen. Read the rest of this entry »

White Lightning

As tempting as it is to raise a glass of industrial-strength booze in George Jones’ memory, I’ll probably be raising something slightly weaker in his memory tonight. Read the rest of this entry »

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