Year: 2006
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Albums Of The Year 2006
Hello groinkers! It’s time for my traditional round up of the best albums of 2006. This year I’ve chosen 32 albums, one for every tooth in my mad, mad head! The shortlist was around 70 so every album below is a winner, no matter where it is on the chart. Buy them all! 32. Spinform…
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Hussein Dead
Hussein meeting ally and fellow murderer Donald Rumsfled Former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has been executed by hanging at a secure facility in northern Baghdad for crimes against humanity. (Source: BBC News) I’m against the death penalty. I think any society that punishes murder with murder is fundamentally illogical and flawed. Also, there is always…
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Snowy Night
No snow yet… but maybe soon… 😀
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Heaven 17
When you see TV programmes about ’80s music, inevitably, they’re shit. Instead of interviewing people who were actually kids then (like me) or the musicians who were making the music, they wheel on the usual list of twentysomething rentagobs who waffle on about Wham! and Flock Of Seagulls’ haircuts. Thus, the casual viewer receives a…
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The Real Criminals
“To initiate a war of aggression … is not only an international crime, it is the supreme international crime, differing only from other war crimes in that it contains within itself the accumulated evil of the whole.” International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg, Germany – 1946 Forget about people fiddling a few quid on the dole,…
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It’s A Commie Life!
FBI documents from 1947 show that government officials once believed the Christmas movie classic “It’s a Wonderful Life” was Communist propaganda. About the FBI memo titled “COMMUNIST INFILTRATION OF THE MOTION PICTURE INDUSTRY,” Blogger Will Chen writes… (Source: BoingBoing) Read the full article, linked above for some yuletide giggles. Finished? Good. What I find surprising…
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Goodbye, My Daaarrrlings!
Goodbye, mate. Thanks for some of the funniest moments of my life.
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Bad Religion
More people in Britain think religion causes harm than believe it does good, according to a Guardian/ICM poll published today. It shows that an overwhelming majority see religion as a cause of division and tension – greatly outnumbering the smaller majority who also believe that it can be a force for good. (Source: The Guardian)…
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Archbishop: Iraq Worse Since Invasion
Archbishop Williams The Archbishop of Canterbury has accused the UK government of placing Christians in the Middle East at risk through its actions in Iraq. Dr Rowan Williams, head of the Anglican church, said there had been a growing number of attacks on Christians. Dr Williams told BBC Radio 4’s Today programme there was “no…
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Christmas Tree
Oh tannenbaum! Clicky the piccy! 😀 HO HO HO!
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Frosty Trees
Saw this little feller shivering in a frosty tree today. Click the pic for more snaps!
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Lyrical Healing
Me, earlier today. Today, I’ve been recuperating by singing along with some old favourites. I love many kinds of music but, ultimately, it’s the lyrics of songs that I most connect with. If you’d been round mine today, you would have heard me yowling: “Like a bird on a wire, like a drunk in a…
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Sony: Yes, We Were Twats
Sony BMG will pay $750,000 in penalties and costs and reimburse California consumers whose computers were harmed by antipiracy software on some CDs sold by the record company, California officials said on Tuesday. (Source: CNET) The sheer arrogance of Sony over all this is unbelievable, thinking they have the right to infect public computers with…
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Jack Frost
Click the pic above to see some frosty pics I snapped this morning. Brrrr!
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Blurry December Garden
Still feeling a bit wobbly but I couldn’t resist getting some Lensbaby shots in the beautiful winter sunshine. 😀 Click the piccy above for the gallery!
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Oakwood Winter Sunset
Feeling more chipper today and it’s nice to doodle something completely not pain-related! 😀
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In Hospital
If you’re a regular Groinker, you might have noticed that I’ve been in quite bad pain with severe parotitis since the middle of November. Hence progressively more deranged pain-related artwork. 🙂 Last Monday I was emergency admitted into hospital for possible surgery. I came out yesterday, thankfully no surgery necessary (the antibiotics worked). It was…
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Attack Of The Pain Lizards
A doodle I’ve done of the little-known species, Parotitis bastardus.
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Svensk Indie 1988 – 2006 En Kärleks Historia
I got the above compilation this morning and it’s fucking brilliant. Regular groinkers will know that I have developed something of an obsession for Swedie indiepop. Even before I gigged there, I loved the more famous Swedish indie bands like Komeda and The Wannadies. And the best album of last year was this Swedish stunner.…
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Alpha-Amino-3-Hydroxy-5-Methyl -4-Isoxazole Propionic Acid Receptors
It is becoming increasingly clear that synaptic plasticity in pain-sensitive pathways has many features in common with better understood forms of synaptic plasticity, such as hippocampal long-term potentiation. Now Hartmann and colleagues have shown that AMPA (alpha-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazole propionic acid) receptors, which are vital mediators of hippocampal plasticity, are also important modulators of inflammatory pain and…
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Conversations Today
A new doodle and, I guess, poem. It’s been a pretty shitty day. 🙁
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When WMDs Are GOOD!
Tony Blair, earlier today. This in via roving reporter, Paul Sellars: Tony Blair has told MPs it would be “unwise and dangerous” for the UK to give up its nuclear weapons. The prime minister outlined plans to spend up to £20bn on a new generation of submarines for Trident missiles. Mr Blair said although the…
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Cilia Black
I’d love to see a microbe version of Blindddduh Date-uh…
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Phages
I think these are in my parotid, biting me. 🙁
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Disconnected
Although I’ve lost a lot of it, it is how I remember it.
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Round 360
Some pics round PaulKeith’s, worshipping his new XBox 360. Click the pic!
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Spalder’s ‘Orrible Meal
He claimed it was luvverly. Click the pic to see Quatermass in a saucepan.
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Skull Island
A new doodle.
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My Flickr Faves
Even though I’ve only been using Flickr for a short while, I’m totally addicted to it. Apart from using it to backup and display my own pics, I spend hours browsing through other users’ shots. And if you take a look at my Flickr favourites above, you can see what I like: cute animals and…
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Why Politicians Are Cunts Part 8,192
Insert joke about Guy Fawkes here. MPs want a 66 per cent pay increase that will take their salaries to £100,000, reports last night claimed. Labour backbenchers have written to the independent body that sets pay demanding their annual pay – currently £60,277 – be raised to put them in line with GPs, according to…
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Separated At Birth
Above, pop legend Paul Anka, below, Fraz from Derby beat combo In Flight Program: There’s something very spooky going on here… Have you heard Fraz sing ‘My Way?’ It’s uncanny! Come to think of it, have you ever seen Fraz and Paul Anka in the same room at the same time? Huh? Have you?
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Facelift
I thought it was time to spruce-up old Bzangy. As much as I liked my old theme, I wanted something a little cleaner and easier to manage. I’ve now moved the site to using K2 along with Steve Lam’s lovely True Blue style which I’ve tweaked to make it a little more groinky. Lam made…
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At Last!
The smooth, mellow flavour of lung cancer. Smoking in enclosed public places will be banned in England from 1 July next year, the government has announced. The ban covers virtually all enclosed public places including offices, factories, pubs and bars, but not outdoors or in private homes. (Source: BBC News) Yes! Now maybe I’ll be…
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Around The House
Just some shots of my household clutter… click the pic for the gallery.
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Net Curtains & Wiggly Glass
Do you like net curtains? Do you like wiggly glass? Then click the pic above for unbounded joy!
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Crimbo Pics
Click the pic above for some Christmassy shots I took on Thursday. Still got to buy all my presents yet!
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Nero November
Some people, some coffee, this November. Clicky the piccy.
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Hilton Vomits While Attempting To Sing Own Song
Paris Hilton, earlier today That’s not my headline – I nicked it from IMDB: Radin writes that when Jay-Z left the stage, “Paris, who had been swilling straight vodka from (a) Grey Goose bottle for hours, gets up on stage, has the people in charge throw her ‘record’ on the house stereo for her to…
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Sylvia Kristel
The immortal Emmanuelle. If you’re my vintage, ‘Emmanuelle‘ is a mythical film. It came out when I was 8 or 9 but as I grew into my teens, it became a by-word for sexy ladies, NOT WEARING ANY CLOTHES, being sexy – sometimes with each other! Whaaaaat? Being pre-cyberwent, us teenage lads could only dream…
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Our Gift To Iraq
“It’s appalling that, despite the well-documented problems with cluster weapons, the US and UK are dropping them on Iraq,” Andrew Purkis, chief executive of the Diana, Princess of Wales Memorial Fund said in a statement. “We urge people to join our campaign to put pressure on governments to take responsibility for the clear up of…
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Delicious Library
I had a mate round recently and showed him Delicious Library. Like me, he’s into films and video games and, like me, he has a somewhat burgeoning collection. Okay – I admit it. In the past, I’ve bought the same DVD twice because I forgot I already owned it. But hey, with 270+ DVDs, that’s…
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Our Glorious Leader
A new doodle I’ve done. Click the pic.
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UK Passport RFID Chips Cracked
My new RFID passport – less secure than an old paper version. Thanks Tony, you utter twat! UK security experts have cracked the sooper sekure new UK biometric passports. It took 48 hours. With £174 worth of sniffer hardware, attackers can read all the personal information off of any of the three million new UK…
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1, 2, Mic Checka!
While I’m recovering from some particularly painful throat stuff (yaay for Amoxicillin!), I can’t do any singing. This makes me feel anxious, frustrated and a wee bit homicidal. To distract me, I’ve been doing all the things I usually put off. One of them was arranging some of my fave mics for acoustic guitar and…
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Amateur
I normally don’t post up YouTube vids but this was too amazing. Absolutely wonderful!
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Doodles
Click the little feller above to see some doodles I’ve done.
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Dawkins Review Reviewed
Via my mate Steve, have a read of this review of ‘The God Delusion.’ Read it? Good… now are we sitting comfortably? Oh dear… I had hoped for a better critique but sentences like: “His transcendence and invisibility are part of what he is, which is not the case with the Loch Ness monster.” –…
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Small Mac Apps I Love
Seems a lot of people I know are getting their first Macs! So, to help them out, here’s a list of all the small Mac applications that make my working day / arsing around more fun. I was going to call this post ‘Essential Mac Apps’ but that’s far too objective-sounding. 🙂 I use this…
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The Swedish Invasion!
Vapnet, one of the Swedish indie bands kicking our pop arses. In the ’60s, the Yanks called The Beatles, Stones etc ‘the British Invaion.’ Of pop, not tanks. Well, I think Britain has lately lost the pop crown to Sweden (and Scandinavia generally). Look at our pop bands, especially the indie ones. Ours are generally…
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Rumsfeld To Be Charged?
Two mass-murderers meet. Donald Rumsfeld, who quit as US defence secretary this week, may face criminal charges in Germany for alleged abuses in Guantanamo Bay and Iraq. A complaint has been launched by the US-based Centre for Constitutional Rights, representing a Saudi detained in Cuba and 11 Iraqis held in Baghdad. German law allows the…