andy kirkpatrick:
Nice film set - Phantom of the Opera (1925)
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#speachless
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We’re living in darkening times, but few people seem to see it. Such a small story as this seems like nothing at all, in fact I’m sure many out there will clap, that this is moral and right, perhaps clap even harder if some old white sexist guy gets taken
andy kirkpatrick:
Even the web has dusty shelves where small lost treasures lie.
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“The problem is that girls can be girls or they can be boys, but boys can not be boys, they can only be girls” @Ivarpi
andy kirkpatrick:
“@psychovertical has written a new book. We have a few signed & numbered special editions. http://ift.tt/2D8ipXe
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I think that the truly racist, the truly hateful and vile and dangerous, should be offered up a platform to speak, the reason being they are not easy to spot. I’ve met many such people, and to a man - and woman - they always thought they were better than
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....and after.
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Before: Vanessa about to eat snail risotto...
andy kirkpatrick:
I wonder Hemingway had letters like this?
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Italian condoms
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Chomsky was like the Velvet Underground, a band I’d heard lots about for years without once hearing a signal note. When I did - hear the Velvets - read Chomsky - I understood why such things were both far from the mainstream, and why they engendered devot
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“The absurdities of human behaviour as we move into the Twenty-first Century are too extreme — and too dangerous — to permit us the luxury of sentimentalism or tears. But by looking at humanity objectively and without indulgence, we may hope to save it. L
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Been reading this before bed for a while now, only a few pages at a time (that sounds like that's all I can handle, but really I'm asleep after 4 pages). It's not quite as well written as I'd expected (a lot of people I know said I'd like it - which is a
andy kirkpatrick:
Nothing like setting the tone for your @airbnb flat (it's pride of place above the kitchen table requires some mental unpacking... or maybe this used to be an @airbnb safe house?)
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The new definition of marital problems: Looking at stack of second hand DVDs, "Have you seen mulholland drive?" "Have you seen Madagascar?"
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Have you ever heard that joke, were someone asks "A flask keeps hot things hot and cold things cold, but how does it know?" A flask is a simple tool who's functionality is pretty remarkable - but easily taken for granted. Another such item of gear who's f
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Welcome to the first world
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Always nice to see your book in foreign climes - great for the ego - but rarely for your bank balance (if it's a knock off job in Kathmandu then doubly so!)
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When I lived in London in the 90’s, the local council banned the nursery rhyme Baar Baar Black Sheep as they deemed it racist and offensive to black kids. This viewpoint soon spread around the country, no doubt due to no school teacher wanting to look lik
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I’ve been called many things in my time, but today someone said I was like a “dumb stupid dog” that “bit anything that came near” (they were a big fan of Oprah, and seemed to thing to critique her was a racist act - although only racists think like that).
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Hollywood often attempts to portray itself as a bastion of moral virtue and courage, lecturing us all, from black tie events & Malibu beach homes, on how ‘we’ (meaning ‘us’), must change our wicked ways, be more virtuous, less consumerist, less hate-full
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I’ve only ever met one man who belonged to the ‘’Ejection Tie Club’’, an RAF navigator shot down over Iraq in the first Gulf war. He talked about his experience at an MOD event entitled ‘Training for war fighting’, were I talked about risk and stress in c
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Trying to sew up 3rd generation of climbing quilt, with sil nylon bottom (bright colour so it can be used as an ID panel), waterproof top with cowl (bivy bags are useless for winter bivis). Two person design but with drawcord bottom so you can squeeze in
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I'm a rice nazi - I just can't help it. I put it down to free school dinners, crunchy rice, burnt rice, rice that was just a blob of sticky transparent carbs. Cooking rice is something everyone should be able to do - but like cooking pasta - something lot
andy kirkpatrick:
I read somewhere that NASA was a big buyer on Ebay, that it was Ebay that kept the last shuttle flying, as well as much of it’s old technology humming and flickering on, like a bad sci fi set. On Ebay you can by all the flotsam and jetsam of the past’s cu
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Last image in the net! Definitely a nature theme running through the images in this book, with a fox, a frog, two dogs, a snow petrel and a salmon. Now just waiting for John at @vertebrate_publishing to ring me up and ask for ‘one more picture…’
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I’ve been fiddling with websites since 2006, when I worked out that the ‘view source’ button in Firefox was not way to check how much ketchup you had, but a way to see under the hood of a website. I was a big fan on @polarben’s website, so just copied - a
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Like Twitter - which seems to be slowly dying - I don’t seem to give myself a easy ride. To be loved and popular, to have tens of thousands of followers, to make hundreds of thousands of pounds each year is easy. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut
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I often think about this morning: the cold, and then the heat - the desert spiders and scorpions crawling over Vanessa, lizards darting too and fro, slopey narrow beds, half a litre shared before we made our escape. We’d set out to climb Lunar Ecstasy in
