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Archive for June 1st, 2005

What he said…

June 01st, 2005 | Category: Politics

Cold Fury on the recent Amnesty Int. pronouncements.

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A new blog collective

June 01st, 2005 | Category: Politics

The ever-productive John Hawkins (he off rightt-of-centre blogger polls) has launched a new site called Conservative Grapevine. It is meant to be a clearing house of sorts for right-of-centre comment and blogging. I will, of course, be adding it to both the Dodgey and LC blog-rolls.

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I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For

June 01st, 2005 | Category: Music

i have run
i have crawled
i have scaled these city walls

u2

Image Hosted by Imagehigh.netHours before U2’s May 21 gig at Madison Square Garden, the band did an impromptu rooftop concert for hundreds of delighted (and some skeptical) fans.

Except it wasn’t the real U2; it was a group of improv comics who specialize in guerilla theatre and practical jokes. And this was a big one, with probably a hundred people involved in the planning and execution before the police arrived to shut it down.

Cop: So you were supposed to be Bono?
Slocum: Yes.
Cop: (looking up and down at 1st generation Korean-American Agent Jinn): And who were
you supposed to be?
Jinn: The Edge.

Hilarious write-up of it here. There’s also a video (Quicktime).

the blog québécois

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