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Creative Writing > Poetry Poetry: Syd Barrett

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Syd & Roger There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line. Oscar Levant Syd was a thunderclap musician, a firestone rocker, A calico leopard in tigers' stripes, A madman crawling around his stage-cage, A granite tipped epidramatic sound god! Syd's pink-purple psychedelic raven haired mane contained... More..

Society & Lifestyle > Immigration Issues Speaking with an accent: What's easy and what's hard?

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Today one of my work colleagues was talking about his favourite film Hot Shots Part Deux , or as he pronounced it "Part Dookes", I had to stop myself from going over there to throttle him, but it started me thinking..... I have lived in the US for over two years and I have never been under any illusions that I am in a foreig... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Football Comparing the NFL and the Premiership

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McCarthyism in the UK. It is strange how situations end up flipping, cart-wheeling onwards through time; on February 9, 1950, Joe McCarthy said famously: "I have here in my hand a list of 205a list of names that were made known to the Secretary of State as being members of the Communist Party and who nevertheless are still w... More..

Politics, News & Issues > Sports Archives Thoughts on the 2007 Champions League soccer final

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Police and Thieves AC Milan 1-0 Liverpool I have always had a soft spot for the Rossoneri, my dad and I used to watch Italian football on lazy languid Sundays - and AC were always "our" team. Liverpool occupy a different spot in my body; they play with all the fanfare and panache of two 80 year olds playing a chess game. Liv... More..

Sports & Recreation > Sports & Recreation (Other) Comparing football, rugby, and soccer across the globe

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The ugly stepsister of "the Beautiful Game" This article was written after going to "The Big House" a huge college American Football Stadium over 3 times the capacity of Goodison. The match was postponed for about 90 minutes after it started raining because of fears of lightning strikes. I once read that Pele used to snooze ... More..

Sports & Recreation > Soccer Players Rising soccer stars

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Our Wayne I was watching "Hell's Kitchen" last night, its pretty lowest common denominator stuff. A reality tv show hosted by the combustible Gordon Ramsay. Several wannabe chefs from various backgrounds (prison cook, sous chef, short order cook at a greasy-spoon) all compete for the top prize - their own restaurant in a new... More..

Sports & Recreation > English Soccer Tottenham Hotspur's quest to break into the top 4

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Spurs & Scientology I have an irrational disgust for Tottenham Hotspur. Nick Hornby describes them as having a "smug air of ersatz sophistication" and this sums up my feelings on the matter perfectly. The funny thing is, I am an Evertonian. My opprobrium towards these masters of style over substance is purely because of a co... More..

Sports & Recreation > Soccer Fundamentals Qualities that make a great soccer manager

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As we become accustomed to our managers, like a pair of worn in football boots, the doubts slowly start creeping in. In the end a manager is defined by a few , often apocryphal, snapshots from the past. Alf Ramsey - '66 and the wingless wonders, not joining in for the celebrations; Graham Taylor - "Do I not like that", utter... More..

Entertainment > Television (Other) Rhetorical criticism of the TV show, Desperate Housewives

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Wear a condom before watching these housewives. The first part of this is pure distilled hatred wrapped up in bilious polemical diatribe. The focus of my opprobrium? Desperate Housewives - and in particular its creator Marc Cherry, a man who is a million miles away from the ersatz glamour of his TV show. Marc Cherry is a man... More..

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6. Qualities that make a great soccer manager
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