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mind_philip's right about both Brazil and England there (though I rate England's chances of getting beyond the QFs higher than he does). Re. Brazil, m_p doesn't mention Adriano, who probably should start ahead of Ronaldo these days. Given how many of their best players are with European teams...

mingus ah um Steve Reich: six pianos/variations/music for mallet instruments Terry Riley: A rainbow in curved air all recommended for making tedious work almost enjoyable.

i've just bought a bottle of ardbeg 10yo, one of the islays that i haven't tried. islays are a bit like heavy metal, aren't they? real knock your head off stuff. though the best ones have a prog-rockish complexity to them. maybe like king crimson or something. yr lowland malts, dalwhinnie and...

el sup Sufi posted a pic of marcos in balaclava and pipe. Apparently pipe smoking is now very fashionable among mexican students. ;) Anyway, here's some good marcos stuff: “Wisdom does not consist in knowing the world, but in imagining the ways it should go to become better” “the great...

oxford pubs (long) a lot of pubs in oxford have gone through pretty hard times over the last few years, since the morrells family, who owned many local pubs, sold out to a venture capitalist. whoever this was decided that what oxford needed was a mcdonalds-ized chain of identikit 'olde english...

i once saw a squirrel choking on something in a park in toronto. happily it managed to dislodge the blockage and carry on it's way before i had to resort to some sort of rodent heimlich manoeuvere (sp?).

mmm, beer <lurk_mode_off> aha, a topic i know stuff about. british ales: something i only got into once i left glasgow and moved to oxford. night's out in glesga were all about the music, man, but now they're more about the drinking and conversation, which is both good and bad. anyway, since...