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• My new website

  October 18, 2009

  • After confessing on facebook to the fact that my kids mocked my website, I was contacted by an old friend who happens to be a professional - and very talented - designer.He came to my rescue and gave me a new website I can be proud of. It's based on a pre-existing wordpress theme, Workaholic from Graph Paper Press, which has been "re-skinned" to suit my needs, and to fit in with the ...
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• Dostoevsky on 'literary types'

  September 26, 2009

  • From The Demons (aka The Devils, or The Possessed): "She invited literary people, and they were immediately brought to her in great numbers. Then they began to come on their own, without invitations: one would bring another. Never before had she seen men of letters like these. They were impossibly vain, but very openly so, as though that was their duty. Some (though by no means all) would ...
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• Keanu Reeves' pint pot

  September 17, 2009

  • I was meeting a friend for a drink in the Compton Arms in Islington last week. As I was waiting for him to turn up I overheard a conversation between the barmaid and a punter.“That’s Keanu Reeves’ pint pot,” said the barmaid, nodding towards something wrapped in a plastic carrier bag.“Who?”“Keanu Reeves. He was in here the other night. Must have been filming nearby and he came in ...
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