… and Far Away From nearly Yorkshire to real Yorkshire in a couple of days. I might have excused myself the trip to Turf Moor, but there was no way of escaping today ‘s visit across the Pennines to somewhere that is either Barnsley, Rotherham or Doncaster, depending on which way you hold the map. […]
Everything Everything – Night and Day 17/10/2009 Sometimes something ‘s that good , that unique , that striking , you are compelled to take notice. Everything Everythings ‘ fascinating blend of catchy prog pop, lyrical surrealism and talented musicianship is one of those things. Well known DJ and E.E admirer Dave Haslam had presented the […]
The Hot Rats – The Roadhouse , Manchester 13/10/2009 Nearly 15 years ago to the day Supergrass exuberantly hit the scene during the Brit Pop revolution , releasing “Caught by the Fuzz” and starting a career that , unlike most from back then, would still be alive and as fresh as ever today. The […]
Two conversations with friends over the last week or so have made me reappraise some of the thoughts I had about playing poker online. I’ve always known that online play was a different kettle of fish from in the flesh stuff, but one of the things that I’d always believed carried through was table image […]
Before I start this, I have to say that I’m not a great poker player; I’m probably not even a good poker player. I’m better than most people I know, I’d say I just scraped into the top three, but mostly because I only know two other people who play regularly. I know I’m not […]
Yesterday, I blogged my views on why bad players, sometimes, see *good* hands more often. http://www.railbirds.com/blog/254609/bad-players-get-the-best-hands.html This prompted one bird to tell me that it was impossible to get so many good hands in such a short period. I chuckled and then took to the tables for the evening. Ok, so I didn’t hit any […]
Like pretty much everyone who claims to follow ‘WAFC The Religion’, I was rather disappointed by last week’s result at Hull. Off the back of a defeat of Chelsea, I’d say we’d have certainly been looking to claim a point at the very least. Things looked to start well enough, Latics dominating first half possession. […]
Well, MySpace might be dead, or dying, but if anything that adds to it’s attraction for me. It was the first Social Network I got into (apart from the so un-user friendly one that goes by the name of life) but I’ve left my MySpace alone for ages and can’t summon the energy to drag […]
I play poker, or at least I do if it’s still called poker when you play as badly as I do. It’s probably just called “slow money transfer” or “pissing your disposable income up the wall”. It’s not that I don’t know how to play poker, at least at a basic level, it’s just that […]
There’s more to come on Saturday’s game, but until then, a little bit of slightly smug reminiscing. It was January 1980 and an eight year old Perm was woken in what felt like the middle of the night by a Perm snr, smelling of ale, and telling him that Latics had beaten Chelsea. What was […]