A happy bank holiday to all readers of ten minutes hate – hopefully the sun is shining! If not and you are chained to the computer today, here are my picks from the hate over the last seven days or so: Revisit last weekend’s Ska Sunday – and please add your own choices in the comments [...]
Entries from May 2010
Saturday 29 May 2010
In Memoria e Amicizia
At this time of year the anniversaries come often for Liverpool fans, the games we love to remember and the ones we will never forget for completely different reasons. One date that should resonate for all fans of the team is 29 May. Today is the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Heysel stadium disaster, when 39 people died [...]
Tuesday 25 May 2010
We won it 5 times…
Evertonians, look away now… I was planning to write something incredibly serious today, about the budget cuts and how the proposed £6bn must be just the start, in light of the Greek troubles. But you can go and read something better than I would have written on the Independent website instead, while ten minutes hate indulges in some [...]
Sunday 23 May 2010
Ska Sunday
I love ska. I love Sundays, I love sunshine and summer. So the first day of the year to combine all of these elements called for a heavy rotation of ska on the old music box today. For once, I am not going to be a musical purist about it, some of this probably crosses [...]
Thursday 20 May 2010
Pen, paper and ink
Continuing on a theme from Monday’s post, here are some lovely things to write on and with: Yes, that is indeed a fur Moleskine holder. It is available here where, should you purchase one, your rediscovered love of the German language will encourage you to refer to it as a Ledereinband Notizbuch. I found the fur-lined cover via my new favourite site [...]
Monday 17 May 2010
Mein Füllfederhalter ist kaput!
Disaster struck ten minutes hate this weekend when – not one! – but two of my fountain pens broke. I can understand your thinking, this is the digital age, why would a blogger care about a pen being out of action? Use another one, I can hear you shouting, get a biro, (wo)man the fuck [...]
Friday 14 May 2010
Tory mix-tape: the anti-fun edition
Continuing our theme of Tory era mix-tapes, here’s one to take you back to the good old days when the Conservatives got the anti-fun bug to such an extent that they decided to try and ban an entire genre of music. In case you haven’t seen it in all its glory before, ladies and gentlemen, [...]
Thursday 13 May 2010
The Clegg and Compo show
Here we all are then, the Dave ‘n’ Nick show opens with the release of the initial and snappily titled ‘Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition negotiations agreements’ on how we are to be governed. You can read the whole thing here. The agreement does demand close inspection, because there are at least a couple of hopeful messages for the future directed at those [...]
Wednesday 12 May 2010
We’ve been here before
A short musical interlude for all ten minutes hate readers who don’t remember what this was like last time around. Listen carefully, this could be valuable survival advice: And if things get really tough, there is always this beauty: Good luck, everyone.
