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I Won't Do That Unless You Pay Me A Tenner Extra
Everyone knows that prostitution is the oldest profession, but not everyone can get a book deal out of it. Sometimes you just get sneered at by people like Richard Littlejohn. Sorry to interrupt the b… more →
¡Oye Billy!
I Won't Do That Unless You Pay Me A Tenner Extra
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Billy wrote 1 week ago: Everyone knows that prostitution is the oldest profession, but not everyone can get a book deal out … more →
My National Novel-Writing Novel Has Jumped The Shark
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Billy wrote 2 weeks ago: Me: So… what did you think of the novel, then? Please be brutally honest. A_____: (attempting … more →
October Blog Experiment Part 18: "R" Is For Road Runner
Billy wrote 1 month ago: One. Two. Three. Four. Five. Six. Jonathan Richmann’s Roadrunner is the greatest 2-chord jam e … more →
October Blog Experiment Part 6: "F" Is For Fuzzy Felt
Billy wrote 1 month ago: Fuzzy Felt were a 1980s British alternative rock band, named after when they bought a distortion ped … more →
The Grand Lodge Of The Chicken, The Bacon, The Lettuce And The Tomato
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Billy wrote 2 months ago: According to to some article linked from Wikipedia:- The Club Sandwich is a sandwich with cooked chi … more →
The Noughties Code
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Billy wrote 2 months ago: Renowned author Dan Brown staggered through the vaulted archway of the bookshop’s 3 for 2 sect … more →
Africa I'm Coming Home
Billy wrote 2 months ago: I am quite a fan of the ersatz and the simulacrum. Why check out the original or risk venturing into … more →
The Burghers Of Calais
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Billy wrote 3 months ago: I do have principles, but I have been known to suspend them given certain situations. Mostly this is … more →
Post For Georges Perec
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Billy wrote 4 months ago: Outdoors, this community do a pow-wow: talking and shouting from high-up windows to consorts out at … more →
Back Off Man, I'm A Toilet Scientist
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Billy wrote 4 months ago: I can’t help thinking I would make an ideal newspaper columnist. I have an appropiately jaundi … more →
Georgia's Always On My Mind
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Billy wrote 5 months ago: I’m quite a fan of word games, be they non sequitur or garden path sentences or paraprosdokian … more →
The Brave And The Bold
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Billy wrote 6 months ago: Another odd fragment from my notebook:- Essentially the plot runs a little like something like this: … more →
Point Counterpoint
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Billy wrote 8 months ago: Stand-up comedy has been compared to music before. The most immediate example I can think of this is … more →
For Molly Bloom et al
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Billy wrote 8 months ago: The most Irish thing I did today was on my return home to retrieve my copy of Ulysses down from the … more →
My Favourite Bit In 1984, Incidentally, Is The Bit Where The Monkey Drives The Car
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Billy wrote 8 months ago: Charlie Brooker writes in his Guardian column this week about the survey that states that 65% of us … more →
White Rabbit
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Billy wrote 8 months ago: I’ve often thought about why rabbits are considered to be sexy. Okay, they do have a large pop … more →
Department Of Redundancy Department
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Billy wrote 8 months ago: I am a great fan of tautologies. Often when I’m entering my Personal PIN Number at the Automat … more →
The Epic Poem In 12 Books Is On The Back Burner
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Billy wrote 9 months ago: I have often been accussed, with som justification, of never managing to see through anything to the … more →
This Is Not An Exit
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Billy wrote 9 months ago: I have discovered proof that Jane Austen is more of a smartarse than Donald Barthelme. Compare this … more →
