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So what is timesnewroman? It's not the font, rather my take on the age we live in. The USA is the new Rome and the times we live in are timesnewroman.
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timesnewroman is listening to: Tiken Jah Fakoly, Arctic Monkeys, Biffy Clyro, Kings of Leon, Bloc Party, Led Zeppelin, Jimi, Franz Ferdinand, Youssou N'Dour, The Strokes, REM, The Kings of Leon, Curtis Mayfield, Jefferson Airplane, The Trashcan Sinatras, Jeff Buckley, Phil Ochs, Stan Kenton, The Smiths, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Mogwai, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, The Zombies and Orange Juice amongst many others.
Friday, June 30, 2006
Royal Blue Jerseys and White Knickers - Part Three
Another year another trial. Ah the days before tippex.
posted by timesnewroman at 6:39 AM
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Royal Blue Jerseys and White Knickers - Part Two
Those nice chaps at Kilsyth Rangers respond re Goalie John's pending trial with Queens Park.
posted by timesnewroman at 6:38 AM
Saturday, June 24, 2006
Surprise Been a away a few days. thewife and I celebrated our 5th Wedding Anniversary and where better a place to spend it than in Paris. She didn't know though until pretty much the last moment. She thought we were going to London, spending a few days at Reidski's new pad and most likely having dinner at some fancy restaurant. That would have been nice and we'll do it soon I expect, but Paris on a cheap Ryan Air flight was too good to miss. Thanks to Reidski and Lady El, thewife had no idea until check-in. Face was an absolute picture when I showed her the confirmation slip. "That says Paris!" she said, with a look of Oh my god. Had to stop her running around the airport screaming, because we needed the time to change currency and stuff.We go there, about 8 0' clock which was earlier than expected and made our way to the Hotel Marignan. We emerged from the RER into an extremely bustling Boulevard Saint Michel. Bustling is actually not the word, it was positively heaving as we had arrived amidst the Fete De La Musique in the heart of the Latin Quarter, right next to the Sorbonne. I explained to thewife that Paris wasn't usually this busy and also they didn't normally have a band playing in practically every street corner. Nor were the streets normally filled with drunken students dancing in the rain. We trudged a few blocks, found the hotel, were warmly welcomed and discovered our room was on the 6th floor of an elevatorless building. Still the exercise would do us good, and ensure our memories were keen if we were to keep the climbing and ascending to one of each per day.
Quick change and off to join the students in the streets. We headed off to a Vietnamese restaurant where we had incredibly good affordable food, and then to a night cap where we watched a previously interesting band disintegrate into a bizarre metal-disco cacophony.
The following morning it was bright, as were we as we took a lengthy walk to take in Notre Dame, the Beaubourg, The Louvre (Just the buildings), The Orangerie which was well worth the queue, The Tuileries, and thence back to the hotel to make our way to Le Bilboquet, which I had booked for our Anniversary dinner. Well I thought I had it booked but they hadn't got my return email, they gave us a table nonetheless, good location and we had a brilliant night with good food, good wine and excellent music. Expensive, but well worth it we thought. The only downside of the evening was in my heart stopping, stomach churning, terror filled moment when I thought I'd lost my wallet, as I got ready to pay the bill. As it turned out I had taken it out my pocket and put it on the table. Pheww.
A night cap and then home. The following day we did a whistlestop tour of Montmartre, The Sacre Coeur, Pigalle - really really seedy - The Arc de Triomphe, The Champs Elysees and The Eiffel Tower. Before heading home to pick up the bags and head for the airport bus.
Busy few days that both I and thewife will never forget, especially the steps.
posted by timesnewroman at 12:06 PM
Wednesday, June 21, 2006
Royal Blue Jerseys and White Knickers - Part One And so it came to pass that the displaced one, who currently occupies a shared desk behind me turns out to have a famousish father! Well minorly famous but in nevertheless a fascinating way. He has brought in a wee series of historical letters, which are just too damned fabby to sit around, they need to be on the interwebby thing along with a wee story and where better a place is there than here I ask?So let the illustrated story of John the goalkeeper commence.
Enough of this amateur stuff. lets get serious.
posted by timesnewroman at 9:17 AM
Monday, June 19, 2006
Five Years thewife and I will have been married for 5 whole years on Thursday. We're getting away for a few days. There's a surprise in store, I can't say too much though as she reads this sometimes. I'm sure she'll love it!posted by timesnewroman at 6:13 PM
Sunday, June 18, 2006
The Boys from Kilwinning Its not often that you get anything interesting on the front page of our local rag the Irvine Herald. Its usually crime city, however this week saw three kids from Kilwinning, one of who's relatives entered a competition which will see the lads lead Brasil out onto a footie stadium in Germany. Pretty fabby stuff I thought. Imagine the kudos that would have in the school playground._______________________________________________________________________________________
We were driving past Troon golf course yesterday, when thewife asks if its the 18th? I explain that I have no idea but the 18th is usually next to the clubhouse. She bursts out laughing and says "the date stupid, is it the 18th?" Duh!
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Meanwhile, back on the interwebby, those nice lads at Toppler Records (yes records 7 inches of plastic with a hole in the middle) have a My Space Site where they play their fabby tunes.
posted by timesnewroman at 11:05 AM
Tuesday, June 13, 2006
Transgendered Jimty a bit puzzled. Somebody has made a comment about a feedback form that he'd been involved in in someway. In the interest of equality it had been suggested that perhaps it might be an idea to include a box for transgendered as well as male and female. As a rule we don't have hang-ups around issues of equality. However this started a bit of a debate around if someone was actually transgendered, they'd probably already have an idea of whether they wanted to be considered male or female and that being the case would already have a box to tick. To be fair we couldn't quite get our heads round the politics here, but we did think that such a box would be more about someone defining themselves as different rather than male or female. Are we being inconsiderate, ignorant of the underlying issues, or just plain pedantic? Throw your thruppenceworth in please.Further discussion which had apprentice, jimty and others in jeering mode when I suggested that the answer to todays Guardian Cryptic Crossword Clue for 17 Down was OFTENER Oh how they laughed and said it wasn't a word. I'll be proved correct tomorrow though I'm sure. The displaced one behind me reckoned that his mum was offonher holidays tomorrow and therefore it was a real word.
France, merde or what??
posted by timesnewroman at 6:45 PM
Saturday, June 10, 2006
Dance with me Germany* I've been remiss or had nowt to say. For the next four weeks this is very likely to continue because I'll be glued to the screen watching events unfold in Germany. thewife is happy enough to watch World Cup Football, because the quality is a bit better than that I usually watch. My money's on Spain to win although they've flattered to deceive so often before. My choices are a bit like that, previously having gone for Nigeria, Portugal and the Czech Republic for Euro 2004. Brasil are head and shoulders above everyone else, but I would have said the same about them in France 8 years ago. They can be beaten.Anyway my betting record to date has been pretty crap - Zurawski to score First for Poland, Germany and Poland to win. I think I might go for England to win with Peter Crouch scoring first to get the odds up a bit. I'm a shit pundit though so feel free to be derisory.
It's hotting up round here, Cape Fear man who lives across the road has a big St George's flag dangling in his window. Surprisingly no-ones panned it in yet, although that may be because they've had a look at him.
Cape Fear Man lives across the road from us. His hair is longer and he's a lot uglier!
13:38 and I've just heard my first reference to 1966. For fuck's sake, that is actually why I don't want England to win. I'm sure as a bunch of footballers they are probably a nice bunch of lads, supported by a bunch of folks the same as me who happen to live geographically south of here, but as soon as I convince myself of that some fucking media plonker has to mention 1966!
*xtc
posted by timesnewroman at 12:26 PM
Thursday, June 01, 2006
No.7 in an Occasional Series - Uncle Ho, Sportsman.
Uncle Ho - Weightlifter
posted by timesnewroman at 6:34 AM
