tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52997802009-11-27T14:14:54.619Zall the news that's unfit to printOssianhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12095236313068093836noreply@blogger.comBlogger2206125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5299780.post-5608614118522344102009-11-25T21:45:00.008Z2009-11-25T22:14:52.597Z

Short Circuit: A Guide to the Art of the Short Story (edited by Vanessa Gebbie) is "a collection of 24 specially commissioned essays from well-published short story writers, many of them prize winners in some of the toughest short story competitions in the English language". The contributors between them have won "The Bridport Prize ... The National Short Story Award ... the PEN/Macmillan Silver

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The tests say I have leukaemia... hang on a mo, that can’t be right: "But how these things are distributed is a mystery. Why does the angel of death fly over some houses but not others? There is no rhyme or reason."It's Boris again. It's always Boris and always will be, unless Van Rompuy comes up with a new haiku.

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Leaked documents reveal No 10 cover-up over Iraq invasion: "Military commanders are expected to tell the inquiry into the Iraq war, which opens on Tuesday, that the invasion was ill-conceived and that preparations were sabotaged by Tony Blair's government's attempts to mislead the public." (Guardian)

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Nick Clegg dents Labour hopes of Lib-Lab alliance | Politics | The Guardian: "Whichever party have the strongest mandate from the British people … have the first right to seek to try and govern, either on their own or with others.'"

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Gigi's closed months ago and is still empty. Now the Bellevue Cinema has closed and the fitments have been ripped out. Last night the centre's mens' toilet was in the most nauseatingly filthy condition. Dirty paper was strewn around the floor, there was fluid underfoot. In one cubicle somebody had closed the lid and defecated on top of it. In the other the bowl was clogged and foul. The word

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Einstein's formulae predict correctly how things will seem from different viewspoints (frames of reference). You can state what is measured from one point of view then feed in variables and calculate how the same event would seem from a different point of view. The idea that reality depended on point of view was and remains shocking but it is true, i.e. it works and accords with observable

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A bit of Dublin humour/parody of Take On Me by Aha

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"He uses the same toothpaste"/Man holds drip for child bomb victimTony Blair still stands an outside chance of assuming the new post of president of the European council, amid signs that EU leaders will take the selection process down to the wire at an emergency summit on Thursday. British government officials believe that the former prime minister could emerge victorious at the last minute ...

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Juked - 2009 Fiction and Poetry PrizesFiction Winner: Jill Widner, 'Bisu and the Missionary's Daughter'Congratulations Jill! You can read Jill's story "Mina and Fina and Lotte Wattimena" in New Short Stories 3. It conjures a sultry far eastern scenario of youthful adventure and discovery in rich and evocative detail.Ossian

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BBC iPlayer - Short Stories by John McGahern: The StoatBroadcast on: BBC Radio 7, 10: 15am Sunday 15th November 2009 Duration: 15 minutes Available until: 10:32am Sunday 22nd November 2009A man compares a stoat's steadfast quest for a rabbit to a shy woman's pursuit of his hopeless father

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BBC iPlayer - Between the Ears: A Season in HellBroadcast on: BBC Radio 3, 9:45pm Saturday 14th November 2009 Duration: 30 minutes Available until: 10:17pm Saturday 21st November 2009An abridged radio reworking of Rimbaud's intense masterpiece of spiritual disillusionment, narrated by Carl Prekopp with a soundscape by Bristol composer Elizabeth Purnell and poems sung by Robert Wyatt"A Season in

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Technology* | guardian.co.ukResearch scientist Dr Brooke Magnanti announces she is author of mysterious call girl blog and says she has no regrets about working as prostitute"I did have another job at one point, as a computer programmer, but I kept up with my other work because it was so much more enjoyable."Yes, yes - er -yes! Simon Moribund* Huh? Ed.

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and here's the U2 studio recording posted as "A tribute to Joey, set to the song, 'In A Little While' by U2- the last song Joey listened to."

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possibly their best

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This is based on the first time I visited my mother in a care home for Alzheimers sufferers.From the gates into the grounds of the care home there was a winding track with no footpath. Joe drove while Connie read signposts to the parking area in front of a single-storey building. There was no one around in the gravelled space between their car and the building. The sunlight was alternately

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Out of about 2,000 short stories submitted since we started the Willesden competition in 2005, there have been 30 shortlisted, 22 published in New Short Stories, 6 nominated for Pushcart prizes, 2 published by the Guardian online & 9 of the authors have subsequently had books published by Canongate, Salt, Sphere, Solidus, Future Fiction, Little Brown, Melville House and Luath Press, inter

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Calm before the storm, not a breath of wind, but there is a weather warning for 75 mph gusts predicted later today.

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Mrs McGrath - Bruce Springsteen - live on blood and a mother's pain / I'd rather have my son as he used to be / than the king of Amurikey and his whole navy

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Enter zoom worldPress F11 to select full screen view in Internet Explorer.

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The number of entries to date: 85Possibles for shortlist: 3 is stretching itThere is still all to play for. Closing date is December 18th, but it helps to have the entries more evenly distributed rather than all at the last minute. Hundreds, getting on for thousands enter but only tens of copies of the anthologies are bought. Please consider buying some of these books to read the winning short

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"Infamous author Aden Bell attempts to seduce a Dover edition of Gertrude Stein's famous book, Tender Buttons"Isn't that the young Gene Wilder?

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Craig

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Advert by Gombeen™Pushcart Prize, Pretend Genius, Write ThisNewsletter #7 announcing Pushcart prize nominees, Halloween issue and new book by Dean Strom

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