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Prompted by the appearance of a coffee bar in Rathmines - a Dublin inner southside suburb (Camden would be its London equivalent) - called Kafka's; you know the guy who wrote the Hunger Artist. Any more?

In "Brendan Behan's Island' he quote Lenin approvingly to the effect that the aim of all politics should be the abolition of the village idiot =- problem is, googling doesn't reveal a source, and i wouldn't put it past BB to invent it and attribute to Lenin for a bit of borrowed authority. can...

In the course of my 'real' work last night, I was forced to be at an Eagles gig here in Dublin, in the course of which thay played a new song, which Henley - i think - said was started after 9/11 and was inspired by 'what we call Dubya's folly' i.e. the war on turrr - i was struck by two things...

Whilke looking for the original piece that sparked the discussion on k- punk and dope i was struck by the end of the piece above it - on overpopulation - where he says 'the ethical choice is to adopt or foster'; surprised at that; thought someone that acute could fail to see adoption as the...

record collection? Just wondering .... LP/ 7" - CDs? or is everything on your hard drive?

This has probably been done before and if so I apologise, but if not .... 2 questions; 1)Best junk shop/ charity shop find and 2) record you most regret selling I'm guessing a fair few people here have -or have had - the sort of record collections that act as a bank in times of stress, and may...

i was much taken by a comparison - I think it was here - of the Arctic Monkeys to Kingmaker; it probably wasn't fair - I can't remember what KM sounded like - but it was funny; so, last night, someone was trying to sell me on the Go! Team (hate that exclamation!) and I said they were this...