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.
Thursday, November 30, 2006
Von Druben*Guten Tag, ich bin Gerti aus der DDR
*Marius Muller Westernhagen
posted by timesnewroman at 7:17 AM
Friday, November 24, 2006
Ya Dancer I was wrong, Reidski was right, although his comments are no longer there on my post from 2nd November. Memo to self, have faith in the working class.posted by timesnewroman at 6:13 PM
Tuesday, November 21, 2006
More confusing than confusion
Once upon a time there were two Jims in our team. It would get confusing occasionally, indeed our bosses boss couldn't tell the difference despite there being quite a difference. We sorted this by having Jim the Younger ( jimty) and Jim the Elder (me).
We now have a new guy who goes by the name of... well you've guessed it, Jim. Him being older (slightly) it kind of complicated our original solution. However, one of our wise adminners recalled that the Spice Girls had a number of Mels in their number, but any confusion was resolved through the use of nicknames. Hence I am now "Sporty Jim", jimty is "Scary Jim" and the new guy is "Posh Jim". Boy do we do irony!
posted by timesnewroman at 7:26 AM
Sunday, November 19, 2006
Beyond the wildest dreams of dreamy people The peops behind us spent much of the match requesting that our manager remove Colin Nish from the field of play as his contribution was rather lacklustre and indeed rhymed with his surname. His main contribution to the game came close to the end when having received an inch perfect path from Danny Invincibile and only the keeper to beat, he contrived to stroll round him before falling on the ground like a wounded kid playing Best Man's Fall. Fortunately for us the referee saw all and the two gentlemen behind us had their wish fulfilled.
On a similar note its good to see this man continue with his run of good luck. Just a shame his injury won't keep him out of the game for a year!
posted by timesnewroman at 1:02 PM
Thursday, November 16, 2006
More Superb than a Superb Thing
We went to see Rodrigo Y Gabriela at the ABC. They were absolutely brilliant, loved every moment. Talented talented folks, very down to earth and good humoured too. Spent about 10 minutes after the end shaking hands with folks and signing autographs. Had I been near the front I would have shook their hands too, and stolen their fingers!
Even more of a good thing what a great day indeed.
posted by timesnewroman at 10:56 PM
Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Sheikh Speir
"Who is Shaw Stackovitch?" asked Jem when we received an email advertising a concert featuring the man on the left. Laughed so much we almost cried, then went on to make list of others like Bee Thoven; Proko Fiev; Mal Err; Chai Kovsky etc etc. After suffering the ridicule Jem pipes up that anyone can make a mistake and gets young admin worker guy to come over. She points at screen and asks him to pronounce it. He gets it wrong. "See" she says and explains the background to him . "Oh" he says, "you had to bring me down with you!" Jem now feels very very bad and the tears are rolling down our cheeks.
posted by timesnewroman at 7:03 AM
Monday, November 13, 2006
No Comment Fare thee well then Enetation. You served me well, even if at times it was difficult to post a comment on my own bloody page. Lately a number of folks have remarked on the difficulty of posting comments, so I have opted to go for the in-house Blogger comment pages, which weren't an option when I first started blogging. I have spent far too long in methodically harvesting and saving each and every comment from genesis to revelations. Many of these simply weren't worth the bother, my own inanities included. Nonetheless, some are priceless. I had the notion that I would put them all back in again, one by one at the appropriate point, however I realised how sad this would make me. I think the fact that I have them and cast them forth is enough. Scrubbed all of David Duff's though.That as it turned out was the easy bit. The hard bit was trying to extract the enetation code and replace it with the blogger code which proved quite a time consuming and at times the air was sweary-blue. I thought I'd have to start from scratch at one point with anew template, but I think I have fixed. I expect some comments now though since I've gone to all this bother!
posted by timesnewroman at 4:18 PM
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Fuckshitfuck!
Filled in and posted. This is about terms and conditions and bringing in new job structures and wage structures. I am so cynical, given a sizeable proportion of the workforce will gain a few quid and a sizeable minority will lose a shitload of quid within three years, I expect to either lose this or discover the scale of the victory is so marginal, that its not considered an overwhelming mandate. Oh did I mention if its accepted, they'll be a lump sum in the pre Christmas Wage Packet?
I live in hope.
posted by timesnewroman at 5:48 PM
