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On buying a house

September 5th, 2011Posted by katiesol

Before you buy a house, you will hear old wives’ tales and made up statistics about how it’s the most stressful thing you can do in life.
Pah, you may say. I buy stuff all the time. Hell, I even bought a car/three-seat sofa/plasma TV/holiday and that cost multiple thousands of pounds. No way can buying [...]

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TLDNR and why you should never ever use it. Ever.

June 30th, 2010Posted by katiesol

“TLDNR” is a sign of everything that’s wrong with the internet; it marries poor grammar with downright rudeness and implies that any piece of writing over a screen’s length is not worth the effort of reading. An acronym coined by the kind of moron that hangs about online with nary a good word to say about anyone, TLDNR stands for ‘too long did not read’.

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Poor Stephen Dorff

June 16th, 2010Posted by katiesol

It has come to my attention today that everyone hates Stephen Dorff.
What is up with that?
He has many fine films to his name, including Blade (actually, I didn’t like Blade all that much) and, er, that Britney Spears video (hey, it was emotional! She tried to kill herself in the bath! Guys!). Ok, actually he [...]

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Vampires, lies and videotape

June 2nd, 2010Posted by katiesol

Vampires in the bedroom and why Buffy, Bella and co are surely kidding themselves. Also any excuse for an R-Patz photo.

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It’s not easy being short

March 30th, 2010Posted by katiesol

Last night I went to see a band*.
Well, that’s a bit generous – what I actually saw was a lot of people’s backs, a host of phones and cameras waving about in the air and a rip-roaring light show. In the absence of being able to see anything worth looking at I spent some time [...]

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