Posts by Russell Brown
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Hard News: CELEBRITY DRUG SHOCK NEWS! AGAIN., in reply to Craig Ranapia,
nd Vanity Fair is a big part of the problem. Having Christopher Hitchens on the masthead was pretty impressive window-dressing for a magazine whose stock in trade is wallowing in human misery and degradation while pretending to be awfully concerned about it all.
Huh? Really? Vanity Fair? Are you quite sure about that? Because that description doesn’t make any sense to at all to me.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Jen Ferguson,
It was great to party and swim with you, Mr Brown – that J Star set will remain one of my highlight memories (albeit a little fuzzy by that time) for a long time.
I loved the way that I kept running into you guys. And our high-five when the Sleng Teng came down was one of the great spontaneous moments of my weekend.
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Just FYI, I've checked with Emma and David, and they're both planning to write something for tomorrow.
We will, of course, forgive them if they can't quite get through that process.
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The clean part of the beach on Sunday morning.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
Also, the only reason we left before lunch on Sunday was because we didn’t want to swim after the lifeguard told us there were “floaters” because some boats had emptied their sewage tanks. I’d be interested to know if there are any consequences for the boarties and/or the festival as a result of that very, very bad behaviour.
The organisers were extremely keen to identify the offender – and hopefully prosecute that person. What a horrible thing to do.
The water seemed fine at the other end of the beach though. Hopefully.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Mark Easterbrook,
We took our 8 year old son, and while festival-as-parents was a very different experience (should one let one’s 8 year old watch burlesque?),
Heh. The girls from our camp complained mightily when one of the dads insisted on watching some of the burlesque:
"He made us watch prostitutes dancing! And he wouldn't let us leave!"
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Hard News: CELEBRITY DRUG SHOCK NEWS! AGAIN., in reply to Tamara,
I don’t see how dying in her bath was her way of giving permission.
I wasn't saying it was good or right.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Ana Simkiss,
This is a bit of a cock up given they knew how many people were going to turn up! If I had to guess why they ran out of space, I’d suggest the number of cars parked in the camping areas might have something to do with it.
Yeah, I'm sure that was part of it. They made that mistake early on and it contributed to all the later problems.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to James Millar,
And did anyone else see the glowing stick figure people and Vospertron dudes on Saturday night? Whoa. Just whoa.
We saw them away up the beach as we walked back from the hut on Saturday night -- it was like an apparition.
I've also got a video clip of Peter Vosper tumbling down the hill in his LED suit. I'll convert it and upload later.
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Hard News: MySplore, in reply to Rich of Observationz,
My experience with big commercial festivals was Glade in the UK. No queue of any size to get in, but had separate parking and needed to haul everything about 1km in the pouring rain.
The last Glastonbury I went to (1990), they changed the traffic flow around the farm and it was a disaster. We set off from London in the afternoon in my mate's Kombi and arrived on site early the next morning after crawling through narrow country lanes all night.
And then they tried to make us park the camper van miles from the camping ground. I'm not given to tantrums, but I jumped out and vigorously informed the gate staff that that would not be happening. They let us through.
