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September 5th 2009 14:55
What is this blogging all about? I'm sitting here, watching the darts and listening to my daughter enthusing about the lovely beaded necklace she's just made and thinking, 'what the hell do I do this for?' Blogging I mean.

Writing is one thing in my life that stops me living it. Quite frankly I've had enough of it, the constant nagging in the back of my mind, reminding me that I haven't posted for a week or two, and what should I write about?

I used to romanticise about being a writer, about creating magic with my fingertips and being my own boss, my own man, total freedom. The truth is that I'm just like you probably, getting moaned at by your loved ones that you're spending all your time on the computer, and being accused of having some online Facebook affair or something. What do you say to them? How do you explain why you spend so much time writing about yourself online, for complete strangers to probe and comment on?


This is a long way from where I thought writing would take me. I'm logging off and going outside to play catch with my little girl. See you around.
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1. Piledriving Miss Daisy

Wrestler


2. Kramer Vs. Camen

Camen



3. Pretty Expensive Woman

Cruella


4. When Dirty Harry Met Sally

Clint


5. Terms of Endurance

Jack


6. Nude Beaches

Girls


7. You've Got Chainmail

Aragorn


8. The Devil Wears Khaki

Bush


9. 50 First State (terrible pun I know)

Sam J


10. Blown up While You Were Sleeping (Okay, that's two words)

Explosion
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The Beautiful East


A bit of a quiz this week. I've taken some famous quotes and, as the title describes, have translated them into 'Japanese-English'. See if you can guess where the quotes are from.

Some are easy enough, where others are quite baffling. Let me know how you get on.



1. We that considered that we came, kicked the donkey.

2. And I will knock down people who will try it and I poison my brothers on the anger that is intense and to destroy the revenge that I am splendid. And you will know my name is important when you impose my revenge on I.

3. Anybody should throw out a stone to nobody till I sound this alarm bell.

4. She had to be in my thing about all gin joints on foot in all world.

5. Twas beauty let a beast die.

6. The armed forces will always be same as you.

7. It seems that you do only that you merely ignore the bloody door!

8. There will be me just here.

9. Your mother sucks a cook in the sludge that is hell, Karras. You are insincere.

10. Intelligence. Nothing brought the difficulty of about the same most in comparison with the intelligence to the human.




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After School

August 21st 2009 16:09

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Gun Crazy
Put 'Em Up!


1. "I'm an American


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Friday is List Day!

August 21st 2009 14:13
Top Ten
Top Tens Rule!


Hello world


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Shawshank Redemption
Courtesy of Wikipedia


I know that I'm going to get slated for this, hung, drawn, quartered, basted in the oven for an hour and a half then buried by Stephen King fans and by people who have an almost religious conviction that books are sacred cows that can only be bastardised and never bettered, but the movie version of The Shawshank Redemption is better than the novella


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Book Reading vs Film
Courtesy of the Guardian Online


1. Books are anti-social - you can't enjoy a book with a friend


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Back from the Dead

August 3rd 2009 16:11
The Wraith


Yes, it's true; the title of this blog could apply to me. I have been away a while. And yes, there is the matter of an Alice in Wonderland blog I've not done. Anyway, The Wraith. I've been wracking my brains to remember the title of this one, let alone the premise


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