Ducks and Green Peas; Or the Newcastle Rider: A Farce of One Act Founded on Fact: To Which Is Added, the Newcastle Rider, a Tale in Rhyme
Ukgatsby's Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
58.93m - Darvin Moon A down to Earth Texan - yes really !!! .. . 34.80m - Eric Buchman Bet he got stick at school with that name .. . 29.88m - Steven Begleiter Adopted Geordie - Resides Newcastle, New York .. . 19.58m - Jeff Shulman 2nd best player in his own family .. . 13.21m - Joseph Cada Didn't register domain so here is random eyecandy .. . 12.39m - Kevin Schaffel Didn't register domain so here...
Best Movies 2008 (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
While journalist and documentarian Jon Ronson is currently undergoing a metamorphosis into a screenwriter, the first film to bear his name is not from one of his own scripts but has been fictionalized, and rather heavily so, from his non-fiction book The Men Who Stare at Goats by Newcastle scribe Peter Straughan. What Ronson set down on paper as a darkly comic and increasingly scary investigation into...
The Breakaway British Hockey Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Yes, I know there has been nothing since the last one, for which I apologise. Busy times at Breakaway Towers...including finding out half your workplace will be being made redundant in January, has meant that sadly, the priorities have seen the blog drop quite a way, for which I apologise. But we're back now... Let's look at the table, then. So, we have the usual suspects at the top-in no particular...
Londonist (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Image / Chris Chelsea fans who chuckled at the risible new name for Newcastle's St James Park stadium will be choking on their match-day pies at the news that the league-leading Londoners are thinking of selling the naming rights to Stamford Bridge . The club's new chief executive, Ron Gourlay, won't have endeared himself to the Blues faithful with this strange explanation: We are not prepared to...
The Villa Blog (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
Newcastle sold the naming rights to their stadium, the papers are talking as if Chelsea are going to too and they could get as much as £10mn a season. It's clear as day that it's a good way to raise funds and while we'd all like to do it 'the proper way' it's also clear as day that you need money to compete in this league and deep down, we all know it isn't going to happen the 'proper way'....
My Middle-Aged Life (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I haven't blogged much because there hasn't been much to blog about. We've been working 10-12 hour days, and most nights we light a fire in the fireplace, watch a DVD and then go to bed. Last week we had to go up to the North East so Arthur could speak at a meeting . The venue was so crowded there were no seats left so I was told to sit up on the platform with the speakers. Because of that I didn't...
U's Blog (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
I've had an enjoyable week so far chuckling at other peoples misfortunes. Targets of my mirth have included the scummers, mired as they are deep in the relegation zone; Liverpool, for putting themselves in a position where their only striking options not named Torres are David Ngog or Andrei Voronin; Newcastle, for coming up with a worse name for their ground than the Trade Recruitment Stadium; and...
Two Dogs, a Flamingo and a Bottle of Wine (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
There were several good dinners consumed in California and more than several wines. Pictured above are two wines we drank with an unusual braised pork dinner. On the right is the 2005 Helios Cabernet Franc from Corison winery while on the left was a completely new wine to me, a 2004 Cartuxa, Evora, Tinto Colheita from Portugal. The Helios was young and fresh with tart blueberries and some darker cherries...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
• 'We are seeing more and more clubs treating fans in this way' • Kenwyne Jones fined for his red card against West Ham Sunderland fans banned from the Stadium of Light as police investigate trouble at Newcastle Central Station have launched a petition against the move. Supporters returning from a pre-season friendly at Hearts on August 8 were caught up in the incident, and more than 40...
The Football Tragic (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
Has there been a better team goal in this season's A-League than Wellington's second against Newcastle last night (about two and a half minutes into this )? If Paul Ifill's surging run down the left was typically impressive, Costa Barbarouses' nonchalant flick was sublime. And Chris Greenacre's finish was no less classy. It's tremendous to see the Phoenix so buoyant in the league despite the loss of...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
• Owner will back Chris Hughton in transfer window • 'We will go out and buy players – if we can' The Newcastle managing director Derek Llambias has insisted that owner Mike Ashley's only focus is to get the club back into the Premier League. Llambias said Ashley will back the new full-time manager Chris Hughton as far as he can in the January transfer window after deciding to take...
Keith Hann - Why Oh Why? (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
My name is Keith Hann and I am a conservative. I feel better for having got that off my chest. A conservative is someone who broadly liked things the way they were whenever he or she attained political consciousness, and would have preferred to keep them that way. There is only limited overlap with the party branded with a capital “C”, which in my lifetime has been a force for radical change....
An Spailpín Fánach (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
RTÉ has started another cookery show last night – Catherine’s Italian Kitchen , a CSI Miami to Trish Deseine ’s CSI: Crime Scene Investigation one supposes. And it's hard to blame the national broadcaster for looking across the seas. After all, if one were to stay based in Ireland, once one had boiled the praties, where would one go next? You might get a Late Late Show appearance...
icWales (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
CARDIFF City slipped down to third in the Coca-Cola Championship table last night as Newcastle climbed back to the top.
Michelle Styles: (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
As it is the start of the month, I went looking for any foreign releases and discovered that just in time for Christmas, A Christmas Wedding Wager has been released in Italian as Valver D'Amore . This is the blurb: Inghilterra, 1846 Da quando il padre si è ammalato, Emma Harrison ha preso le redini della prestigiosa ditta di costruzioni di famiglia, rinunciando alle frivolezze della vita mondana...
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