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LONE STAR COMEDY CLUB � FRIDAY 27TH JUNE 2008 AT 7.30

Following a triumphant show on 31st May The Lone Star Comedy Club returns to the Tower Theatre on North Road at Shorncliffe Garrsion in Cheriton. The line up for the new show will be EARL OKIN, JAMES SHERWOOD, compere MATT PRICE and a newcomer.Earl ...
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Folkestone bullet train trial

A micro-writeup and picture here in the Evening SubStandard on the high speed rail link. Yeah baby, we'll soon be only 63 minutes away from the stinking metropolis.yourshepway.co.uk also has the story here, The site of the Hitachi High Speed Rail dep...

I know more about the internets than Tim Berners Lee

It says so here, that's a professional comedy writer saying that, but he's not joking I don't think.newsbiscuit.com is a UK comedy site I helped out with when it launched, and then again last night, that could be what prompted the namecheck....

Boom shake the room!

Well I suspect you've all been frantically refreshing wondering when I'd report from this morning's earthquake! Amazingly it was three and a half hours ago now, the power was off until just recently so there wasn't a lot I could do, no internets, and...

Gig guide from this week in 1981!

so it wasn't all big name indie bands playing the Metronome every night as I've been led to believe... here's a fascinating republication of gig listings from 1981, from the good people at www.kentgigs.com. Don't forget my Folkestone gig guide though...

Yesterday's news

BAH, wrote a huge posting, to compensate for several days of blog neglect, and Firefox only done went and crashed on me didn't it... that's literally several paragraphs of finely thought out prose that are now lost forever. I need to write an "autosa...

Tweaker

Been stuck for hours speeding up javascript on You Write The News today, so decided to do some graphics for a change on Folkestone Gerald... What do you reckon, does it look professional and that? Maybe it would look more so if my horizon was straigh...

Wintersmith

I see not only that there's a new Terry Pratchett book out, but that Amazon have changed their URLs, so they now have the author and title at the beginning of them... this is GOOD for them, for getting a page listed higher in some search engines etc,...

Clarkes in the National Portrait Gallery

Just searching for Sir Fred Clarke, who seems to be related to the wife's family but not to our Clarkes, and I'm not sure if this is him in the National Portrait Gallery or not, but here's a list of other Clarkes who are. Hold your mouse over their n...

ZZ blows his top

So what was said then? Must surely have been something racial. Man alive it's a dirty game.Cream-crackered today, don't feel like I rested for a second at the weekend, not only did we stay up far too late on Saturday, but we went OUT on a FRIDAY! Thi...

Mobile game reviews

Might do some work for a Mobile gaming company, not a company that actually makes mobile games, but a company that has a site that writes mobile game reviews and has mobile phone game news and things. Not much of a mobile gamer myself and might not e...

Cackling, dozy

Didn't sleep so well last night, perhaps it was the residual excitement of such a nice weekend, or maybe it was apprehension about what this week will bring. Either way, neither of us could sleep. So good then that there were some OUTSIDERS in our ca...

I've got the power... oh no, I don't

Super power outage at work today, from about 7am this morning to lunchtime, has quite thrown the rhythm of my whole day.The Arctic Monkeys are getting quite a lot of press aren't they? I don't think we've seen the like since the Oasis v Blur days of ...

Lunch!

Met a couple of chums for lunch, on a boat, what a treat. No actual food there, just a couple of beers, then grabbed a falafel on the way back to work. Been monitoring popbitch board all day seeing followups to this bbc blog, a funny old business. Ev...

IPODs got podcasting bookmarks

The latest IPODs are colour only, and they have the facility to "bookmark" podcasts (and any long MP3). Hmm, actually I hope that'll work for MP3's, and not say only files that have been saved as AAC... I've not had time to write much these days, and...

Like Sherlock Holmes bumming Watson...

Been meaning to write about this for a while, but keep forgetting... VERY exciting TV news, there's to be a new adaptation of Sherlock Holmes, starring Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie! Their take on Jeeves and Wooster was one of the best series ever to b...

Weak roundup

Aargh, had loads of things I wanted to write, and I can't remember a word of it now. It was going to be a big eloquent post today, proper blogging, but now it's just going to be a scattering of mostly unrelated paragraphs.Joined the Amazon rental sch...

Some new things

I don't often get sent things these days, maybe because I don't write proper reviews, but HEY! Here are some things, so here will be some attempt at newsing them up:Phantom Planet release "Big Brat" on May 31st... it's from their new album Phantom Pl...

Never mind Belle-de-jour

Metro today has an interview with and picture of Major James Buffy-Maun, the London media set are going fictional character crazy at the moment. It would be wrong to suggest all the letters in Metro are made up, I believe the majority of people reall...

OX04 Festival

Just received word of this festival in Manchester, in aid of Oxfam, contact details for more info at the bottom of this message...Following the success of this year's OX03 festival, (an eight day event inManchester City Centre to highlight and raise ...

Holiday reading

While I was away I read Matthew's Prize: Being the Tale of a Whitby Orphan Boy's Longing to Navigate the Broad Seas though I didn't know the title was so long at the time... it's about PIRATES, and it's quite good, if a bit of a blokey version of a m...

Atomic Kitten Beat Off Teenage Dirtbag

Can't be arsed to write any sort of news story here, just wanted to use that headline...

Blah Blah, Atomic Kitten number one, lots of new entries, check out http://www.dotmusic.com or something for the details...

Let the punters write all the news...

Ian Peach, a valued punter and Delgados fan tells us this:The Delgados played a storming set on the main stage at the Reading Festival on Saturday. Emma's vocals were amazing. Shame they only had 35 minutes - enough though to prove themselves the be...