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Tue 19th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Why am I still awake?! I haven’t slept for 36 hours but after being tempted out to my local pub the evening has proved to be a long one…it doesn’t …

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Mon 18th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Back in the UK! I know there’s nothing more boring than some lucky bastard who’s just been on a fabulous holiday whinging about being jet lagged, so I’ll tell you …

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Sun 17th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

A rainy day in Soho The rain is still blasting down in Manhattan but we’ve spent a lovely day all snug on the Pink Pony cafe on Ludlow Street. Now …

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Sat 16th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Hungover in Manhattan Last night proved to be another lager fest, taking in an alcoholic stroll along the Lower East Side before finally crashing into the Raven Bar at 2am, …

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Fri 15th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Argh! My hangover! Spent last night hitting the bars of Williamsburg and it rocked! Our friendly bartender dispensed the free drinks and shots like they were going out of business …

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Wed 13th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

It’s finally stopped raining! After two days of torrential rain the thunderous deluge over New York has finally cleared. Yesterday we walked downtown and passed the site of the WTC, …

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Tue 12th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Update from rainy Manhattan Still having a fantastic time out in NYC although the weather’s turned to a London-stylee constant drizzle…The good news is that I’ve managed to get my …

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Sun 10th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

NYC diary…spent the day hanging in Brooklyn and Williamsburg today: Brooklyn is a fab mix of bleak industrial grimness and beautiful Hampstead-esque village houses and W’Burg truly rocks – I …

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Sat 9th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Greetings from New York! Flew over in a super-high tech Virgin AirBus. The video screen was so hi-tech, you could text/ring/email the ground, send text messages to fellow passengers and …

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Wed 6th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Wohoo! What a night! Met up with a mob of urban75-ers at the Hobgoblin in Brixton, wandered over to Brockwell Park to watch the fireworks display, then back to the …

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Tue 5th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Sun comes up, it’s Tuesday morning… A tale of loss and healing by the Cowboy Junkies

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Mon 4th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

I took a load of photos over the weekend of people huddled underneath umbrellas and battling against autumnal gales – expect some in the photo gallery soon!

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Mon 4th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Check out this neat scratchpad and leave a note for me!

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Mon 4th November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Thanks to the kind assistance of Emerald, I finally got the Blogger archives sorted. Flushed with success, I then spent hours redesigning the whassup page, which is now rapidly turning …

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Sun 3rd November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Woohoo! We watched loads of fireworks tonight in Camden – and then drank in that top rockabilly boozer, the Elephant’s Head: nice pub!

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Sat 2nd November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

6 days to New York! But today is a West End kinda day, with coffees at the Photographer’s Gallery…

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Fri 1st November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Style magazine bollocks! I got this email from the trendy ‘style’ mag, ‘Sleazenation’: “Hi- we’ve got together to do a nationwide survey with Diesel about youth protest and what the …

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Fri 1st November, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Friday’s Tommy Cooper joke: “I went to buy some camouflage trousers the other day but I couldn’t find any”

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Thu 31st October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Brixton news: the Dogstar has been bought by a pub chain and will be called ‘The Atlantic’ again. The Dogstar was funded by Brixton Challenge cash: they would have been …

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Wed 30th October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Joke of the day! How many anarchists does it take to change a lightbulb? None, the lightbulb must change itself. All anarchists can do is help its process of self-change. …

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Wed 30th October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

This morning’s annoyance: my PC has adopted an irritating, intermittent, growling that sounds like the bubbling chemistry set in the superb Ealing 1950s social satire, The Man In The White …

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Wed 30th October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Before they nag me, here’s two links to my chums’ newly-Blogger-enabled websites: check out Emerald’s fabulous goldtop.org and Tim’s skate/photo-tastic Sonik

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Wed 30th October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

Mighty Cardiff City go top of the league! I know that almost none of you have the slightest interest in the exploits of my favourite football team, but I love …

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Tue 29th October, 2002 - by editor - Leave a Comment

It’s been a bad tech day: it took me blinkin’ ages to get this blog thingy working (thanks to some ‘jazz’ directory structures on my server) and I still cant’t …

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