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the funny, bloody history of the Tower of London
I wish this guy had taught me history at school … I might have stayed interested! [cta id=”8243″ vid=”0″] COLIN FALCONER
LONDON - A TIME CAPSULE
THIS IS AN EXTRAORDINARY VIDEO. This is newsreel footage of London, shot in 1927, restored into colour and imposed on the screen side by side with video from similar angles, recorded 86 years later, in 2013. Simply amazing. You have … Continue reading
STAY WEIRD
Stay weird. That was the message from Graham Moore when he won the little bald naked man for his screen adaption of The Imitation Game. It’s the story of Alan Turing, the man credited for inventing the first analogue computer … Continue reading
WINTER IN AMERICA
It’s midnight here and I’m sitting here in a pair of shorts with the air conditioner on. I believe some of you, suffering through a long, cold winter in the northern hemisphere have quite different problems. Perhaps this will make … Continue reading
PINK AND HER VIETNAM VET DAD
The amazing Pink brings her Vietnam Vet dad on stage to perform a song he wrote himself about the war. Someone described this as Full Metal Chills. I agree. EVERY MONTH YOU COULD WIN A COPY OF ONE OF MY … Continue reading
THERE ARE SOME LINES A COP SHOULD NOT CROSS
WIN A COPY OF ROUGH JUSTICE, JUST RELEASED TODAY!!! JUST SUBSCRIBE TO MY NEWSLETTER RIGHT HERE!! ENTER THE DRAW WHEN YOU RECEIVE MY NEWSLETTER. THIS MONTH I’M GIVING AWAY EIGHT EBOOKS! COLIN FALCONER
CALL ME MAYBE, AFGHANISTAN STYLE
I hated this damn song until I saw this. Now I can’t get it out of my head. Apparently, this was made by US Army Forces based in Afghanistan. Judging by the longish hair and the beards some of them … Continue reading
8 REASONS THESE 8 SUCCESSES DID NOT FAIL
I remember one morning a few years ago stumbling out onto the deck with my coffee, feeling pretty bad about life. My border collie looked up at me from between her paws with that look that said: … here we … Continue reading
IF THIS DOESN’T BRING TEARS TO YOUR EYES, YOU’RE MADE OF ROCK
We all need to play the music that we hear inside. To do that, some of us have greater mountains to climb than others. For the Landfill Harmonic, it’s a mountain of trash. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8-pAioZNZ8&w=560&h=315]