Ploubazlanec on the Cote d'Armor was one of the places I looked forward to visiting purely because of its name and the towns you have to pass through to get there. PLOO-BAZ-LAN-ECK. PLOUBAZLANEC. On the way and surrounding are Le Cabaret, Pleudaniel, Squiffiec, Ploumagoar, Lezardrieux, Plouagat, Plouisy, Plouadis and Plouadat. Way to name your bourgs Bretons! Diving into the life of a bonvivant began with dinner at the Ferme du Kerroc'h. Nathalie was expecting a meal in ramshackle rural farmhouse. The ferme Kerroc'h however was a farm which had long ago been converted into a cosy lo [View Full Entry]

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The Petit Tour - Day 1 Streatham Hill to Brittany is a few hundred miles as the crow flies. We didn't have a crow big enough, so chose to drive, crossing the channel in the belly of a train and stopping at a WWII cemetery and in William the Conqueror's backyard on the way. Driving on the right, and therefore the wrong, side of the road didn't hinder our progress as much as the numerous 'peages' (toll stations) en route, which reduced the deluge of British caravaners to a trickle. The American Cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer is located behind Omaha beach. Looking [View Full Entry]

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Les fetes sont dans Paree! [View Full Entry]

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The "Andy Warhol, Other Voices, Other Rooms" exhibition at the Hayward was a laugh. My first impression was that we were the willing subjects of an extended piss-take and that the joke was on us....ha ha very funny mofo! As my fellow art critic Tash and I moved around the gallery it seemed to me that 'satirist' was a suitable endgame for Androwski Warholi whose artistic evolution took him through stages as dancer and jester. I imagined he would have delighted (satirically of course) in an extravaganza composed of his photo, audio and video detritus. The 'stuff' in the exhibit, we [View Full Entry]

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Arriving in Heeo we found Reef and Emelie hanging in the hostel in Botafogo with some tattooed Swedes. We thought they'd be shaking their things at some favela funk party, but a late finish at the Maracana watching Flamego had meant they'd missed their transport and were around to welcome us to the 'cidade maravilhosa' and to front some local currency for our cab fare. Happy days. We spent a day cruising Copacabana and the previously unfamiliar Downtown area. In Copa we were surprised by the ferocity of the pissing-down-rain and later by the knee deep rivers of run off in [View Full Entry]

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...that so proudly we hail "democracy has new meaning". Alas, the unreasoning distaste for America (fuck you) can now begin to fade. To which nation can we now direct our only slightly illogical ire. The relief I feel at B.O's imminent move to the Whitehouse only serves to illustrate the deep discomfort having W in office had instilled over time. The sense of mis-direction and negativity, caused by his stewardship of part of all our destinys, has only become clear to me since news of Barack's succession. We've yet to discover what difference it will actually make, but instinctiv [View Full Entry]

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I'm sitting here in Streatham Hill, London, England, a few thousand miles from Yeehaw Junction, Florida, Cut and Shoot, Texas and even further from Truth and Consequences, New Mexico. I've come to realise that i've a bubbling sense of nervous anticipation, butterflies almost, about the upcoming US elections. Why? Well there's an African-American man within a hop, skip and a jump, not of an Olympic medal, but of the Oval office. What the fuck. Has America (fuck you) lost its mind? In a good way of course. Maybe it's as Chris Rock said when asked if America was ready for an [View Full Entry]

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After bouncing some of Plato's theories around, Aristotle had some different ideas about things. Plato, it seems lined them up for Aristotle to knock 'em down. According to Aristotle there's no abstract Form of a goat as per Plato. We need to look at all goats to come up with a definition and the concept of goat-ness 'adheres' to all of them. I'm not sure how you get all the goats in one room for the assessment. Also, the generalisation we should apply to conceptual or mathematical (envy or a polygon) versus physical objects (a table) should be different. Thank fuck. [View Full Entry]

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01/10/08: Ten Great Ideas - Plato's Theory of Forms What is it that makes a thing what it is? What is it about a goat that makes it a goat, or white white or a handbag a handbag. Are goat-ness, white-ness, handbag-ness things that exist outside of the said articles. If we killed all the goats would the idea or concept of a goat still exist? If so, does that mean goat-ness is a separate thing to real living munching, mountian climbing, cheese producing goats and if not, what is the concept we have left when the world is goat free. [View Full Entry]

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I thought of this the other day. "We have an embarrassment of material riches yet a paucity of spiritual wealth". I think I made it up myself but I'm quite forgetful so I might have read it. I discovered last week that Nathalie believes in God. I think I laughed. Rude eh! But she didn't mind as it's her god. She tells me that she's prayed at times and her prayers have been answered. Jesu Cristo. If there is someone watching all we do, listening in all the time, then why are there are people bothering to moan about CCTV and [View Full Entry]

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