Before I say anything about the London Marathon, let just take a second to say that the Angerstein Hotel can go fuck itself.  Thanks, that’s a load off my mind. The booklet the London Marathon authorities sent included a map of the route with a little pint glass marker at every pub along the way (which [...]

  It couldn’t last forever, but my work colleagues have discovered the blog…shit, or shite as it were.  Now I have to watch my language, cut down on the gratuitous nudity (on here, but don’t worry, ladies and selected gentlemen, these vestments ain’t sewn on), and stop slagging everybody off so much.  Fucking internet, there’s [...]

The rain never slacked up after I left the Waggon and Horses and the winds were howling. Running down a steep chalk path had been treacherous and slick and I had taken a wrong turn somewhere on my way to the village and wound up a mile off when I got my bearings again. Nearly [...]

Sixteen minutes and a short hill climb from the Fox and Hounds I chanced upon the Blowing Stone Inn, housed in what appears to be a mid 20th Century schoolhouse.  Oddly, every piece of wall art was related to fox-hunting while I saw no reference to such back a the previous pub. I had a [...]

It’s not sexist with that spelling (but it’s how bell ends interpret what others see clearly to be a ‘Comment’ box, bell ends like those that are so bent out of shape about the 165 words, mostly quite kind, in the sketch of the Woodman, indeed, please show us that you are a bunch of [...]

Gotta love the Dutch.  I was buying tickets for a Springsteen concert in Holland and had to register on the Ticketmaster.nl site.  One of the country options for your address is the Occupied Palestinian Territory.  Hail, Fredonia! They also have a slot there for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, just in case.

Awaiting the bus, I find I’ve got WIFI access (University offices nearby, I reckon).  I got a nice nod from a Brit in New York yesterday (PR guy and he’s on painkillers right now, so take it with a grain; still, he is responsible for projecting a half-naked Gail Porter onto Parliament awhile back so [...]

Hopped off the bus in Southmoor for a relatively short run into Longworth along some public trails in order to see what the Blue Boar was like.  Ten minutes from alighting, I was sitting in front of a delicious pint of Doom Bar near an unnecessary fire.   There are two rooms, left or right [...]

A quick look at Ladbrokes Betting Odds today shows the effect of Santorum’s recent good showing since the last update (sorry Boog, no tna shots this time, just a bunch of boobs).  Hillary still has the best odds of the people not running at all for President.  Also interesting, Ron Paul has better odds of [...]

This is an old story I have recounted endlessly, but a friend from Tucson brought up something that reminded me of it and I promised to put it in print.  It is long and tedious unless you just happen to be familiar with — and interested in — the madness of mathematics.  So, basically, this [...]