Personal Musings

Return of the Planet of the Apes

by Jon on December 9, 2011

Many years ago I was at Center Parcs with a friend, and for whatever reason we stayed in one day, all day, watching a Planet of the Apes marathon.   By the end of the day I think we’d watched the 5 Apes films and seen more of Roddy McDowall then his own family probably did [...]

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The best and worst Halloween movies

by Jon on October 31, 2011

To some people it’s sinister, to some it’s just a bit of fun, to some it’s a genuine holiday with a history.  Much like Valentine’s Day or even Christmas people either love it, or hate it for various reasons, usually commercialism. Personally, I love it, and actually wish it would become bigger.  While I don’t [...]

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The Retro Age

by Jon on October 20, 2011

A blog written in February 2009, which is still relevant as the retro age rumbles on.   A lot of this is a repeat of  my ‘Selling Out’ blog (a lot of my writing tends to cover the same theme sometimes) but also covers fashion and movies and other ‘stuff,’ to an extent. The Retro Age [...]

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Hogan Knows Worst

by Jon on October 20, 2011

A blog written back in June 2008.  Hogan has since gone on to divorce his wife and marry his daughter’s friend (!) and return to wrestling yet again in TNA, sadly going down the route of Ric Flair, Jake the Snake, Terry Funk etc, who all became shadows of their former selves.  Still my favourite [...]

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Job hunting..

by Jon on August 30, 2011

..soul destroying fun for all ages.  But hey, you get to work for 40-50 years of your life, then if you’re lucky you get a decade or so of peaceful retirement (and a few appointments with the Orthopaedics ward), then you get to lie down for a bit.  (Just kidding, life can be beautiful.) Here [...]

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Life 2.0 coming soon

by Jon on August 25, 2011

This site has not been as updated as frequently as I would like recently but this is for several reasons, which ironically make up a blog posting of sorts. One, I am still busy looking for work.  It has been over 3 months now and I estimate I have made around 300 applications in at [...]

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Dis-United Kingdom?

by Jon on August 8, 2011

It was once said that the next war would not be fought with weapons.  And in an age with mass media, social networking and the internet, giving the common man a more level playing field and corrupt politicians, leaders and millionaires fewer places to hide, you’d think the revolution would be a more peaceful one. [...]

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Technologic (and my brief dreams of becoming a film director)

by Jon on July 12, 2011

Recently I have been thinking about just how much technology is used on a daily basis, and how it is my generation that have actually reaped the rewards and furthered all of this innovation.  Just recently I have started using Twitter more and joined LinkedIn in an effort to keep up with modern social networking, [...]

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Team Bastard

by Jon on July 7, 2011

A while ago I wrote a blog about the state of football which I shall post on here soon, partially humorous and partially cynical.  It mainly focused on the unfortunate expansion of greed and idolisation of terrible role models within the game, and people sometimes irrationally treating it with too much seriousness in the grand [...]

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