Cooking With Richard » politics http://www.cookingwithrichard.com It's a strange umbrella we're under altogether Fri, 28 Oct 2011 11:52:54 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.5 Henry VIII / Circulus at the British Library http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2009/07/21/henry-viii-circulus-at-the-british-library/ http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/2009/07/21/henry-viii-circulus-at-the-british-library/#comments Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:00:11 +0000 rich http://www.cookingwithrichard.com/?p=2111 Need I say that this event was a bit mad? Should you wish to go to the exhibition, it’s on at the British Library until 6th September, cost £9.

Update

Circulus are playing at The Lexington on Pentonville Rd, 13th August. Anyone want to come with me?

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I think this is a brilliant concept. This artist called “SLINKACHU” paints snails and then photographs them in urban environments. Previously he was famous for doing these little people on ordinary city streets.

I really hope that the artist lets the snails “go free”, perhaps to be discovered by a bemused commuter, or a snail connoisseur…

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While I was looking at this snail art, I saw that the artist had painted a sadly familiar “tag” on a snail, “TOX.08“. If you regularly travel through London, you will be familiar with the depressing vandalism of this teenager. I found this 10 minute documentary on the internet about the culprit of this eyesore, it’s worth watching because it shows the people who have to clear this spam off tubes, and where tube trains go in the night …

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I’ve been going there regularly for at least ten years, but today was the last time.

There aren’t really any alternatives. Chinese Wing Yip, down the road, is expanding, but they don’t have the other shops or non-Chinese food. Japanese TK Trading is miles away.

More discussion of the closure …

Thanks to ex-Mayor Ken Livingstone for valiantly defending the store — oh no, in fact he approved the planning application. Well, he’s been thrown out of office now, but his stupid planning decisions like this and others will linger on.

This is what I got from Utsuwa no Yakata Japanese pottery shop:

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In Britain:

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I think the white duck’s wearing the trousers …

Previously …
Preeeeeviously …

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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/06/29/more_fear_biscuits_please/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/02/terror_idiocy_outbreak/

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… oh wait …

Thanks for RIPA, policy laundering, data retention (previously), section 44, collaboration with that oh so “special” relationship, indefinite detention without trial, ignorance and stupidity, bribes, …

Image by the excellent C4 illustrator / b3tard Beau Bo D’Or.

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The sooner we can get rid of these stupid government monopoly/cartels, the better. Read more and even more and for the geeks …

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Links

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I’d respect him a great deal more if he just came out and said that he did it, and we should all be permitted to smoke dope.

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