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Monthly Archives: March 2007

Spring? Nope…

Monday, March 19, 2007

Last Wednesday I went to work in shorts and sandals.

This morning it snowed.

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SteamPunk zine

Thursday, March 15, 2007

Yesterday’s post brought SteamPunk magazine with it, which explains me turning up bleary-eyed an hour late to work this morning. It’s a new no-budget zine, pdfs for free download or you get a handsome printed copy on recycled paper for US$3 plus shipping.

The good

It’s very handsome. The design and typography is great, mixing up faux-Victorian [...]

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BooksPrice: polite spam

Monday, March 12, 2007

I’m seriously in two minds about this. According to Lucy Orbach of BooksPrice, I rate a notification that their service just got better. On the one hand, it’s spam [ok, no it's not.]. On the other hand, it’s personalised and polite and damn it I think I probably do want to use their site.

I can’t [...]

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Reviews are go!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

As promised, my LibraryThing reviews account has a bunch of new reviews. I even managed to keep some of them short.

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Blues Brothers: now with more Blues Brothers!

Sunday, March 11, 2007

Wow. I finally got around to watching The Blues Brothers on my laptop (yes, it’s downloaded, yes, I’m ashamed). It’s the DVD edition. Meaning … new dialogue in the opening scene, shots of Elwood parking the Bluesmobile behind “Danger, High Voltage” doors at the end of an alleyway and climbing out the window because there’s [...]

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Boekenmarkt Spui, how I have missed thee

Friday, March 9, 2007

Ok, there are some genuine holiday posts in the works, I promise. I’ve gone through the mountain of photos I took and picked out a molehill of good ones, so One Day Real Soon they’ll appear here.

Today though, I’m rhapsodising (is that a word?) about my first Boekenmarkt Spui in three months. Whee!

Flann O’Brien’s The [...]

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