The title of this post was a program idea dreamt up by a friend of mine upon hearing that Dutch TV is on the verge of broadcasting “The Donor Show”, a reality TV program where a terminally ill 37 year-old woman gets to choose the recipient of her kidneys after she dies. These apparently insensitive, [...]
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Bigger Red Bulls
27May07I spotted this pair in the Lower Regent Street branch of Tesco Metro today. I was looking for milk and bought wrapping paper, these two cans of red bull and a can of red wine. It’s hard to say why Tescos are responsible for accepting one in eight of every pound spent in Britain, isn’t [...]
Power Failures in Chez Nic
21May07Our house, for some reason, has the flakiest electricity I’ve ever known. That includes two years at university living in a house with perpetually stoned, necessarily lazy housemates whose financial misprudence, procrastination and often downright bloody-mindedness conspired to let the metered electricity, run first into credit, then die completely. These frequent power cuts led mostly [...]
I flew to Scotland the other day
21Feb07Airports are the most messed-up places I know. I’ve just queued for 20 minutes for the honour of taking half my clothes off, swabbed for explosives and then electronically stripped naked (seriously) by a millimetre-wave scanner monitored two minimum-wage numbnuts still giggling over the best pair of x-rayed tits they’ve seen today. Or mocking my [...]
