9/30/2004 11:14:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|Firstly, unless you have a fast connection, skip this post. Someone posted this excellent link on a local cycling forum. The streaming videos from the US in v i d e o g a l l e r y remind me of the stunts we used to pull back in the cycle courier heydays of the 80s. Racing taxis down Park Lane pushing a big ring fixed wheel or doing a 'thread the needle' slalom run against the traffic was pretty much like this stuff. The fact that I am waxing nostalgic about those days and have almost forgotten the numerous trips to casualty when some twonk opened a door or pulled out on me must mean I'm having a mid-life crisis.|W|P|109658247539196067|W|P|Extreme Stream Machines|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/26/2004 07:35:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|This weekend has shot by. Already Sunday evening is here and I'm doing anything to avoid ironing a shirt for work, as this means the fun is over and Monday morning awaits. So where did the time go? Well, between 2200hrs on Friday evening and 2300hrs last night, I was preoccupied with catering for and serving up the wedding breakfast of my friend's son. Having said 'yes' in a weak moment weeks back, I had to set to and prepare, cook and serve up 80 five course meals. Thanks to an army of helpers drawn from the groom's family and our friends, all this was achieved with very little hassle - mainly due to a bit of planning by myself and the groom's father, who also drove around and purchased all the ingredients. All of which has convinced me that, whilst I love to cook, I am pretty sure that I wouldn't want to run and outside catering business. Having said that, it is very gratifying to cook for so many folks and to receive the odd compliment, not to mention a bottle of port, for my troubles. Having cooked the afternoon meal and cleared the service by early evening, I then cycled home to shower and change before returning for the evening celebrations before returning home with my family to crash out. Cycling was on my mind when I finally woke up this morning. As I have mentioned recently, I am keen to buy a Brompton folding bike to enable me to commute by train and bike rather than car and I wanted to have a test ride before ordering one, just in case I hate the thing. Rather than test a brand new Brompton, I opted to take up an offer from a Tower Hamlets Wheeler to test her 3 year old bike to get an idea of how they ride and how they stand up to 36 months usage. Not only was the 4km ride all I needed to confirm both the build quality and my decision to buy one, it helped me adjust my intended specification to match my requirements more closely. Although I have been considering a secondhand bike, I have chosen to spend the extra to get the setup, colour and additional kit I want. Hopefully, at some point next week I'll get along to my local dealer to order and pay a deposit, with a view to collecting it next payday. This afternoon, we settled down with the kids to watch the superb and compelling Rabbit Proof Fence. Made in the same year as the equally moving Whalerider, it is a drama that recounts a true story which, when considered quietly and fully, will make your heart ache. |W|P|109622527966945481|W|P|Where did the weekend go?|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/27/2004 04:57:00 pm|W|P|Blogger zoe|W|P|80 five-course meals ? wow, you must feel very pleased with yourself - i know i would. well done!9/24/2004 04:20:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|Those who can remember back as far as July may recall that I was impressed with Mr Naga's Very Hot Chili Paste, with it's minimalist label and maximum taste.
It seems that my enthusiastic post reached the folks who are responsible for producing MNVH because, in the process of clearing the spam from one of my lesser-used mail accounts today, I came across an email from one of Mr Naga's team, Shamsul. It reads:
Dear Bignoseduglyguy, I recently looked up on the internet for my product 'Mr Naga', and you were the first thing which popped up. We are a fairly small firm and we appreciate the positive feedback which you have written about us, hence we would like to offer you a free jar of Mr Naga, if you could kindly email me back your address, so that i can post it off to you. Once again we thank you, and hope you will be pleased with the free jar of Mr Naga.
Yours truly Shamsul
Pleased, Shamsul? I'd be overjoyed as my present one is running out. I rave about things I like because I like them and I want to share them with others but I must admit that I appreciate Shamsul's gesture and am happy to have another reason to post about it. Good luck to all at Mr Naga's.
|W|P|109603932656292179|W|P|Mr. Naga's friend, Shamsul|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com10/21/2007 12:29:00 am|W|P|Blogger harrythedog|W|P|You lucky so-and-so!
A free jar.
I'm on my second jar which costs about £2 UK here, but I bought it through an intermediary a year ago. It sist in the fridge and every now and again I open it up and have a smell - i always think there's a fried-onions backnot to it and I am desperate to be able to recreate the full flavour at home, but no luck yet.

My funniest moment with this was a BBQ I had May2007 with the guy who first introduced me to Indian Curry. I put the jar on the table and, from the kitchen, heard a loud Yarroo! My children saw the whole thing but I utterly missed him trying it. But ir certainly had an effect.
I've been to the Chilli Farm at West Bexington, Dorset, England, and bought Dorset Naga and used them, and now I'm growing them on a warm, sunny windowsill. You have GOT to try and grow your own at home!9/22/2004 08:13:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|Is it just me or has Gmail been really slow and refusing connections (like now!) for odd periods of late? I know I shouldn't whine because it's free and it works almost all the time and it's still a beta after all but, like a a junkie wanting a fix, I want it and, by Beelzebub's breeches, I want it NOW!|W|P|109588043096686349|W|P|G(rrrrrr)mail|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/22/2004 09:10:00 pm|W|P|Blogger pigpogm|W|P|No, it's not just you. It's been playing up all afternoon, and it doesn't seem to be responding at all now.

By Beelzebub's breeches? I'd leave them well alone.

Oh. GMail's just sprung to life again whilst I was typing this, and now it seems to be fine again.9/23/2004 04:02:00 am|W|P|Blogger Ian McKenzie|W|P|I noticed it too, starting first thing this morning (GMT -7) and continuing for several hours.9/21/2004 11:53:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|Fellow Metroblogger Riaan has written an evocative yet homely post about the folks she sees walking by the Thames in the early mornings.|W|P|109580719725489821|W|P|The captain and his dog|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/20/2004 09:58:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|I like beer. In fact, I like most beers. Common or garden lager is OK as a thirst quencher on a hot day or when it is something a little special (i.e. brewed by Belgian monks and fermented in nun's wimples) but most of all I like what are known as 'session' beers or ales. These are cask ales and bitters that can be supped slowly and steadily throughout a pleasant evening's discourse or banter without one sliding to the floor and into the arms of Morpheus. Sadly, with 70% of modern days drinkers opting to drink gas keg lagers and the like, such ales are continually under threat as the big combines that dominate brewing in Europe find them troublesome and expensive to brew. Whilst the latter day Boddingtons Draught is not a patch on the namesake of days gone by, the decision by InterBrew to transfer manufacture away from it's home in Manchester in order to "ensure the long-term future and success of our business and protect the broader base of our 3,000 employees" seems like the thin end of the wedge to me - and Andy, who has proposed a boycott of Interbrew products such as Boddingtons, Stella Artois and Becks. This may seem like small beer but if such moves meet with no resistance, we will not only lose decent volume-produced ale, we'll also lose valuable parts of our heritage, leaving ale drinkers reliant upon the excellent but always vulnerable small independent breweries to produce and, more crucially, distribute an affordable pint. With the big brewers maintaining what is effectively a stranglehold on beer distribution in the UK, drinkers are limited to those beers that a landlord can get delivered in a cost-effective manner, neatly sidelining most small producers in one move. Heaven help the small independent or microbrewery then, who makes a successful ale, for they will become a prime target for takeover... and so the cycle begins again. How can you lend your weight? Here's how:
  1. If you drink beer, don't drink Boddingtons, Stella Artois or Becks.
  2. Regardless of what you drink, sign the 'Save The Cream' petition.
  3. In the long term, think about what you drink and where you drink it - if you have only ever drunk high street/chain pub beers, try something a little different, you'll be in for a treat. CAMRA, the CAMpaign for Real Ale, have guides to good pubs and great beer.
Bottoms up! Prost! Skol! Cheers! |W|P|109571391573322457|W|P|A p(o)int of principle|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/22/2004 03:36:00 pm|W|P|Blogger Kenny|W|P|Thanks fella. If we combine our communal voices, we might stop the bastards from denegrating good ale. I cannot imagine a world where Bods is brewed outside of Strangeways. How else will they torment the inhabitants of Manchester Prison (note how they changed that name too.)

What is the world coming to?9/19/2004 01:08:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

Bless me and forgive me, for it has been six days since my last post. Much turmoil and busy-ness (work sucks and blows) has prevented me from posting in the last few days but, as usual, Sunday morning provides a brief window during which I can try and catch up a little - so here are the edited highlights:

iPod: Like most of the world, I love the thing and like more than a few owners who use the Shuffle random play function a lot, I have noticed that my iPod seems to favour certain artists or displays 'algorithm favouritism'. I'll just have to buy more music to confuse it, won't I?

Qumana/Blogjet: Haven't really played with either much as I haven't been posting but fully intend to as and when life quietens down a little.

Transport: For those that are new here or don't 'do' archives, I'm a London-based former cycle courier, sometime bike commuter and occasional tourer, who somehow has turned into a 40 year old car driving middle manager. I have recently decided to ditch my company car in favour of a combined bike/train commute to do my 50 mile round trip between East London to Heathrow each day. I am 99% set on using a Brompton folding cycle to use at each end of the train journey.

Whilst an experienced cyclist, I have never owned a Brompton before (though I am lining up test rides), I have been reading a bunch of sites like those of The Folding Society and the Brompton Talk Yahoo group to get myself up to speed. Some colleagues, including a Brompton owner, are supportive whilst others think I have lost my marbles, especially with winter coming on. Even though I won't be getting the tax break advantages of one of the Government's best kept secrets, this move will hopefully diminish the stress of a daily drive through London, save me thousands in tax and congestion charges and do a bit for the environment.

Running: I have been a lazy illegitimate over the last two weeks but have got back into the groove this morning with a gentle plod around the Isle Of Dogs' South Dock, where the brig Stavros S Niarchos, one of the Tall Ships Youth Trust vessels, is currently moored.

Family fun: With family over from Switzerland and down from Wakefield, much food is being consumed so this afternoon we plan to walk off some of the calories with a walk along some of the East End's canals. Amongst the gifts exchanged, I was chuffed to get a lovely small framed picture of a 1927 supercharged 2.3 litre Bugatti Grand Prix Type 35B like the one below. I had a small diecast model of this car when I was a child and the picture will now hang under a limited edition print of Graham Hill taking the Loews hairpin in his BRM on his way to victory in the Monaco Grand Prix a few months after I was born.

photo: Neve Engineering & Restoration Services

|W|P|109559568574020537|W|P|I'm back...in a digest stylee|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/13/2004 11:03:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

Rands Management Glossary is written by someone who has a cynical ear for management-speak, suffers from NADD and types with his tongue firmly in his cheek.

Enjoy.

|W|P|109511303210524011|W|P|Rands = top dollar blogging|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/13/2004 06:27:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|No sooner had I picked up the trial of Blogjet after reading Ian's post about it than I happened upon Tris's post about Qumana.  Qumana is a two-part application that allows users to collect, build and publish content via blog hosts such as Blogger, Blogware and TypePad. With it's stay on top DropPad applet plus the main app's workpad and library sections, bloggers and content managers can collect, store, alter, style and then publish content in a far more featured and configuable manner than with anything I have used before.  I'm trialling it for myself and will post again with impressions.|W|P|109509642821818489|W|P|Qumana - it's a blog thing that does stuff|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/13/2004 08:41:00 pm|W|P|Blogger Jason|W|P|You know, except for the voice dictation and the IE/Feeddemon integration, I believe W.Bloggar (http://www.wbloggar.com) does all of that for free.

This Qumana thing looks interesting. I might have to look into it.9/13/2004 09:04:00 pm|W|P|Blogger Ian McKenzie|W|P|I downloaded and installed, but couldn't sort out the configuration for my WordPress setup. Any hints?9/30/2004 05:09:00 pm|W|P|Blogger jpabad|W|P|In reply to Ian,
I'm trying it now. I got it to connect to my Wordpress site by using the Blogger API and then putting my website as the host and /xmlrpc.php as the end point.

Will it work?
I think so.9/12/2004 01:10:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

Ladles and jellyspoons, the iTunes upload is over.  Whilst I'm sure there are plenty out there who have a gazzilion more ripped CDs and MP3s on their iPods, I am quite happy to have finished my initial ripping session.  My iPod is now one short of eleven hundred songs which, iTunes tells me, is equivalent to a trio of days listening or more than four of your gigglingbytes.  Meanwhile, a post over at geekgrrl provided a heads up to weatherfox, a weather info extension for Firefox.

That's your lot for now - I'm off to play with the traffic whilst we're head for a Williams Syndrome family event on the other side of town.

|W|P|109499105785306542|W|P|Singing In The Rain?|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/12/2004 12:43:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|This morning's Sunday morning surf introduced me to the delights of Micahel Chu's Cooking For Engineers, a recipe blog with a different way of presenting recipes. Rather than me explain it, pop over and have a look - there are some lovely looking recipes to drools over, whether you are techical or not.|W|P|109498943161268424|W|P|Geek grub|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/11/2004 03:43:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|
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A public service announcement for the uninitiated iTunes user (i.e. new iPod owners like me). If your PC* refuses to rip/inport more than one CD in a row, don't waste hours trying everything under the sun, simply run 'msconfig' from Run and then uncheck the "Shwicon2k" item from the list in the Startup tab in the System Configuration Utility window. For a step by step guide to doing this, check out the iTunes Only First Audio CD Is Recognized page. *Like my top end multimedia HP Pavillion. Ironically (but not in the corrupted Alanis Morrisette way) , Apple use the exact same model in the above picture which features on their iTunes webpage and which, according to a few forums is particularly susceptible. |W|P|109491383826968658|W|P|iTunes aggro|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/11/2004 03:38:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

Tax free shopping for SWMBO and sprogs

  • Chocolates
  • Mini Dime bars
  • Bags and bags of Haribo
  • Gouda cheese with cumin
  • Macadamia nuts
  • Cashews

Tax free shopping for self

  • iPod

Seems fair to me.  So why am I getting the skunk eye?  I mean the kids have shoes on their feet, clothes on their backs and food in their stomachs, don't they?

|W|P|109491352782284890|W|P|Tax Free MP3|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/08/2004 10:38:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|I have spent the last two evenings ripping my CD collection into iTunes ahead of a possible iPod purchase when I fly to the Netherlands tomorrow. Strange then, that whilst I am doing so I should click onto Cory Doctorow's Boing Boing post concerning Should I Rip This? v1.0.|W|P|109467949598319581|W|P|A morale maze for our times|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/08/2004 07:24:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

The folks over on the alt.comp.freeware newsgroup compile a list each year of the freeware programs that they have voted as the best of the best.  The result is a website that serves as both recognition of the author's efforts and a handy one stop shop for some truly excellent apps.

via Ian.

|W|P|109462465486245195|W|P|Pricelessware|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/07/2004 09:39:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|
...since Google popped onto the scene. Happy Birthday Google!|W|P|109458955179571043|W|P|It has been 2186 days...|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/07/2004 11:58:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|The Google/Blogger relationship just got a whole lot more incestuous. Jonathan Hernandez's GPL app Gallina means that Gmail can now be your blog posting interface as well as your email client.|W|P|109455471532792695|W|P|Gblog?|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/05/2004 09:43:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

Lambertus J. F. (Bert) Koster

1959 - In Memoriam - 2004

|W|P|109441699543004450|W|P|Absent friend|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/05/2004 08:16:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|

The Tour of Britain rolled to a conclusion in London today, with some of the world's top professionals competing in the 45 mile Stage 5 race around the streets of Westminster. The 30 degree heat did not deter the large crowds who lined the barriers of the 1 mile loop, though the free water handed out from vendor trikes proved very popular.

The inclusion of London's cycle-mounted cops in the warm up parade lap made an interesting addition before the main business of the day got underway. Sadly, as I was at the last corner 400 metres from the finish and, at the time of writing, the Tour of Britain website is down, I am unable to report who won.

|W|P|109441178062423563|W|P|The Tour comes to town|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/04/2004 03:32:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|
Checking a few backlinks this morning, I stumbled across my blog listed in someone's Furl archive and headed over to check it out. As I'm in a lazy mood, I'll let the Furl folks tell what it is all about.
Furl is dedicated to making it easy for users to archive, recall, share, and discover useful information on the Web. With a couple clicks, Furl will archive any page. You can easily find it by browsing your personal directory of web pages or by using the full text search that only searches pages you've archived. It's like having your own Google. Not just limited to archiving pages, Furl also gives you the best ways to share content. Furl makes it easy for your friends to decide which categories of links they are interested in and receive a daily "newsletter" of links. Furl also generates RSS feeds for your links and makes it simple for you to integrate this content into an existing website.
I like these last two - the fact that, just like BlogLines can be used as a feed for your blogroll, Furl can be set up to feed a configured 'furlroll' to your website and that you can set up RSS feeds. In addition, a good number of export option exist to move your archives to a more 'local' location if you wish. These include XML, zip archive Internet Explorer favorites and Mozilla/Netscape bookmarks formats, not to mention 5 citation formats as well. As someone who is increasingly moving towards web-based solutions for much of my online requirements, I shall be interested to see if it fits in with the way I surf. For those with the usual privacy/what's you business plan/what if they go bust/how can I get at my data? concerns, the FAQ answers all that and more. Furl - and the GtD folks who visit here - might be of interest to the team over at the Keeping Found Things FoundTM research project of the Information School at the University of Washington. The KFTF team are looking into the key challenge of information retrieval, namely simply put, helping people find the things they are looking for (books, articles, web pages, CDs, etc.) from a very large set of possibilities. Their primary focus is actually one step further than that - how are things organized for re-access and re-use later on? Hence the Keeping Found Things Found moniker. Check out the Papers section for some very interesting and enlightening material on how we store and find things. --
Talking of Gmail, like the world and his wife, I have more invites - if you are a GtDer, friend, colleague or regularly comment here and you want Gmail, let me know.
|W|P|109431301044032737|W|P|Furl - Gmail for bookmarks?|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/04/2004 11:41:00 pm|W|P|Blogger Ian McKenzie|W|P|Thanks for the tips. If you just stumbled across Furl, you've sorted out more features in your first look than I have after using it for some time. Furl has just been a big disorganized on-line bookmark repository for me. Now I'm going to dig around and see what else I can do.9/04/2004 01:30:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|There was a very interesting programme on Radio 4 this morning but, as is always the way with these things, I was driving around doing errands so I only caught snatches of it. Thank goodness, then, for BBC Radio's Listen Again service, which gives folks like me a second chance to listen to a programme via the web for a couple days after the broadcast. In my case, it was a 30 minute documentary called 'Unsung Heroes', which records and feelings of the ham radio volunteers in and around New York, who made a quiet but essential contribution to the 9/11 emergency response. Having learned a fair amount about amateur radio whilst on holiday, I was interested to learn of the part these volunteers played in helping in the aftermath of the attacks. Should you wish to hear the same programme - and have Real player - simply click here for a streamed version.|W|P|109430105248090883|W|P|A different perspective on 9/11|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/03/2004 10:25:00 pm|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|In some way, the barely comprehensible emormity of the tragedy that has descended upon the community of Beslan in North Ossetia has served as a cathartic coda to what has been a difficult week. At the start of the week, I learned that my good friend and colleague Bert is desperately and, it would seem, terminally ill. In the days since, little of my normal work routine has seemed important and my mind is unerringly drawn back to thinking of my friend. Whilst words rarely capture feelings fully or adequately express emotion, the scores of messages posted by colleagues to a forum set up by Bert's friends and family have a simple and appropriate eloquence. They are eloquent in their portrayal of a true and decent human being, a man who has a commodity that is rare in these modern times - nobility. Yet amongst all the head shaking and swallowing back of lumps in the throat, there have been tiny moments of gladness and connection. For me, they were like the first grateful breath after waking from a bad dream or the the first glimpse of purple heather on a fire-ravaged moor. The very process of contacting folks around the globe to relay the awful news brought me back into contact with two treasured friends I had let slip from my life. Both have been an inspiration to me in different ways and have helped bring me to particular places in my life - professionally and personally. Crystal is among the most inspirational people I have met and it was perhaps fitting that a simple Google search for her name led me to a coaching website through which I was able to contact her. Papa is a charming and humourous man who has borne almost overwhelming personal tragedy himself this year and yet found more within his heart to reach out to our mutual friend. Along with a small group of others, these three good people came into my life in the most ordinary way when we all were chosen to represent our respective regions in a new initiative at work. Some connection was made during the two weeks we spent together in Atlanta that joins us, where ever we are and what ever we do. It is only now, with the benefit of hindsight and in the shadow of sadness, that I am able to appreciate the true serendipity that brought such wonderful, selfless and like-minded people into my life. I'll leave you with a picture and a thought. The picture is of some, but by no means all, of the folks who made up that serendipitous mix - we may be spread across the globe and separated by much but we are always bonded by the happy moments we made for each other.
Papa - Monica - Jane - Colin - self - Bert - Oscar
The thought is this: cherish every connection and relationship, no matter how fleeting or trivial it might seem, for you may only discover too late that it means so much more than you first thought.
|W|P|109425187732530617|W|P|Cherish what is important to you|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/02/2004 08:53:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|...a member of your team sends you the following email - and signs it.
Once upon a time, in a nice little forest, there lived an orphaned bunny and an orphaned snake. By a surprising coincidence, both were blind from birth. One day, the bunny was hopping through the forest, and the snake was slithering through the forest, when the bunny tripped over the snake and fell down. This, of course, knocked the snake about quite a bit. "Oh, my," said the bunny, "I'm terribly sorry. I didn't mean to hurt you. I've been blind since birth, so, I can't see where I'm going. In fact, since I'm also an orphan, I don't even know what I am." "It's quite ok," replied the snake. "Actually, my story is as yours. I too have been blind since birth, and also never knew my mother. Tell you what, maybe I could slither all over you, and work out what you are so at least you'll have that going for you." "Oh, that would be wonderful" replied the bunny. So the snake slithered all over the bunny, and said, "Well, you're covered with soft fur, you have really long ears, your nose twitches, and you have a soft cottony tail. I'd say that you must be a bunny rabbit." "Oh, thank you, thank you," cried the bunny, in obvious excitement. The bunny suggested to the snake, "Maybe I could feel you all over with my paw, and help you the same way that you've helped me." So the bunny felt the snake all over, and remarked, "Well, you're smooth and slippery, and you have a forked tongue, no backbone and no balls. I'd say you must be either a team leader, supervisor or possibly someone in senior management."
- sigh - |W|P|109411163842123826|W|P|You know you're held in high regard when...|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com9/02/2004 11:35:00 am|W|P|Blogger zoe|W|P|LOL - so you're a bunny rabbit ? ;)9/01/2004 12:06:00 am|W|P|bignoseduglyguy|W|P|
Kevin Smith is making a sequel to Clerks. All the faces will be back according to the blurb. Jason in L.A. who gave me the heads up* via IM this morning is praying that Smith doesn't succumb to casting Ben 'ex Mr. Lopez' Affleck like most of his output since the original. *This in itself was ironic seeing as he read it in the online version of my usual UK newspaper. |W|P|109399361039805163|W|P|Snoochie boochies!|W|P|bignoseduglyguy@gmail.com