Strangely Perfect

I’ve been (and still am!) busy over the last few months moving house and otherwise making a new life for myself.  Despite this, I did find time to go a see an event that I never thought would happen – James Williamson & Iggy Pop playing on stage together- for the first time in 30 [...]

Like a metal mickey, old Geordie Gordon Moore (no, not him of Intel and his ‘law’) has astounded the medical profession with the recent discovery that a big hole in his head has grown back under the protective metal plate that was inserted to fill the gap.  (see the story here: Man grows new skull [...]

I’ve just had a hit from someone looking for Colony Holidays…  Sooo I’d better write this down fast!  I’ve been meaning to do it for a while. Colony Holiday Etc A few years back I fished around on the web to find out what had happened to the CCHS, Council of Colony Holidays for Schoolchildren.  [...]

Following on from the Google Street View roll-out, two issues have popped up – again; People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis a commercial organisation like Google People’s privacy on the streets vis-a-vis government organisations like local councils For the first, the self-appointed guardian “Privacy International” have made an official appeal to the Information Commissioner’s Office [...]

Highlighting the Differences in Public Health provision, the Attitudes to Death and Responsibilities of the State and the Individual to Public Welfare. The title is the biggest bit – trust me. Introduction This takes us from today’s news from America and the Duffy’s Cut project to a tiny hamlet in Northumberland, England, called Throckrington. Duffy’s [...]

One other side effect of the Google release into the wild UK of Street View, has been people checking up places they know – and I’m no exception. This is where the band Crawling Chaos played their first gig: View Larger Map ….and this is a dude in a farty twat car, debating whether to [...]

Barn Suitable for Conversion to Recording Studio, Pied a Terre… Relaxation Point, Sanctuary, Holiday Home, etc Isolated, & Private.   ~£50k 76 miles from Newcastle 89 miles from Glasgow 46 miles from Edinburgh 247 miles from Birmingham 360 miles from London Contact Mr Anth Chester via this website or tel: 0191 2592313; mob: 07932440357 View Larger [...]

Don’t Shake Hands with the Office Boss if you Live in Newcastle, (But You Can Shake Hands with the Window Cleaner or the Toilet Cleaner)! Amazingly, this is all true.  The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine has done hand swabs of commuters across the UK and come to these key points: Northerners‘ hands [...]

This is powerful stuff from 1277 in Japan… Introduction A 55-year old Japanese monk writes a letter to a proud, hot-headed Samurai warrior who has the absolute right to cut his head off with but a moment’s notice, (swish!), almost without reason. The Samurai know all about honour and don’t like to be lectured by [...]

Having been playing with the neat Broken Link Checker plugin today, I discovered a few links that had gone or changed and set about fixing them.  During this process, I came across a mention about Arthur 2-Stroke who periodically self-promotes himself, even now.  I’d like to share this wonderful experience that I gleaned here at [...]

Describes how New York, Washington and Moscow are all actually only 20 miles apart!

I’ve cleaned up the above track a bit although it’s still 14Meg in size and lasts quarter of an hour. It’s classed as Crawling Chaos although only two members took part in this version. This version of Zombie Dance is part of a commission given to Rees and Jeff by some chums, Zyclon B Zombies, [...]

I’ve just been browsing my photos and have found a neat one taken in 2002 of the Bridge Hotel looking southwards down from The Keep. For those that don’t know, The Keep is the “New” “Castle”. It was made in 1086 or something, so maybe we should change the name of Newcastle back to what [...]

In this review of the 24 hour party people film, the author, Miranda Sawyer states So, the Tony Wilson of the film is constantly saying, ‘I’m a Cambridge graduate, you know,’ which the real-life Wilson doesn’t. ..er. That’s not quite true from my recollection , you know. Before “Sex Machine” was released by Factory we [...]