From the monthly archives: May 2006

Ah, One, you and I can never be

On May 29 2006 · 1 Comment · In Diary

I went to the One Railway website to find out about the price of a season ticket from Ipswich to London today, and met a wonderful woman. One. She was waving invitingly at me from the home page of the site, so I clicked her smiling image and up she popped.

I asked [...]

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Nailing jelly to the ceiling

On May 27 2006 · 1 Comment · In Diary

Blogs aren’t really that useful when you are trying to work your situation out and everything feels a bit, um, fluid. If you’re not that sure about anything you have to say, it seems daft to put it on a blog because the next minute you want to take it back. I just did that.

To summarise:

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Equal rights for Klingons!

On May 25 2006 · Leave a Comment · In Diary

A Klingon Batleth has been seized by police in a house raid in Gloucester, the Sun reports. The sword was recovered by ‘shocked cops’, who said it ‘could easily take someone’s head off’.

Shortly, it will also be announced that speaking in Klingon is to be banned, as well as eating live Gagh, and wearing [...]

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Eleanor Rigby

On May 25 2006 · 2 Comments · In Audio, Diary

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Beatles – Eleanor Rigby

I always think of this song when I see people talking to themselves, and yesterday I saw three or four. Railway stations are a natural home for [...]

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Reply to a Christian

On May 25 2006 · 1 Comment · In Uncategorized

Since the publication of my first book, The End of Faith, I have received thousands of letters and e-mails from religious believers insisting that I am wrong not to believe in God. Invariably, the most unpleasant of these communications have come from Christians. This is ironic, as Christians generally believe that no faith imparts the [...]

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Nnnrrraaaaaarrrgh!!!!

On May 19 2006 · 3 Comments · In Diary, Video

I can’t recall a time when mindless violence has been as amusing as this. The fight appears to start because the guy with the mullet licks the last of the other guy’s Marmite off his knife.

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