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Boxcar Ben

I am here for Friends

About Me

Whatever happened to the days when young men would congregate in sun-drenched piazzas, dressed in immaculate suits, looking nonchalant and pretending to read newspapers?

Nowadays, of course, people are too busy working all hours to lounge with any conviction, and suits are associated only with the man.

My name's Ben , incidentally.

My Interests

I'd like to meet:


If your profile page is full of bad spelling, or clogged up with with flashy things and niggly html, or if you have 9999 friends and you want one more to round out the numbers, please just move along.

My Blog

did you notice when you began to disappear?

28 up. Seriously: bookmark this and make some time for it one evening. The whole thing's worth watching, but skip forward to Neil's story (about one hour and twenty minutes in). There are some public...
Posted by on Wed, 09 May 2007 13:56:00 GMT

an introduction to gaylord tennis, or dandy racketball

Rob Newman's career in brief: Early 90s: Very amusing and famous. Late 90s: Overweight, struggling with stomach disease, writer's block, and depression. Today: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9Ecd63...
Posted by on Fri, 20 Apr 2007 13:38:00 GMT

plain speaking and clear understanding

  You're a close-mouthed man?No, I like to talk.Better and better. I distrust a close-mouthed man. He generally picks the wrong time to talk and says the wrong things. Talking's something you ca...
Posted by on Tue, 12 Sep 2006 14:21:00 GMT

franck and charlie

A couple of fine clips from youtube. 1) One of the few positives to come out of this summer's sorry excuse for a World Cup. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3cveXWTbDaY 2) "They enjoy a load of dic...
Posted by on Sun, 30 Jul 2006 08:19:00 GMT

my favourite fictional heads of state

I don't want to vote for your president, I just want to be your tugboat captain. Unless that president is Charles Logan.  
Posted by on Sun, 05 Mar 2006 16:34:00 GMT

the highlight of 'no direction home'

"Of all the other singers who toil in the same vineyard as yourself, how many would you classify as 'protest singers'; that is, singers who are inspired by a sense of protest at events they ...
Posted by on Tue, 27 Sep 2005 15:27:00 GMT

a green tent and a violin

This weekend I have been at the very cool Truck festival in rural Oxfordshire. Highlights: Patrick Wolf, The Raveonettes, Editors, Brakes, The Rotary Club (they're a hip new band so cutting edge that ...
Posted by on Tue, 26 Jul 2005 10:07:00 GMT

blue

Mark E. Smith put it best. "Sometimes life is like a new bar/ Plastic seats, beer below par"
Posted by on Tue, 14 Jun 2005 14:29:00 GMT

njet

NO I do not want to add the Boobahs to my friendslist, but thank you for asking
Posted by on Tue, 05 Apr 2005 12:53:00 GMT

wise words

"The last thing that anyone should ever do is feel ashamed of blacking out. You were trying to get drunk last night and, goddamnit, mission accomplished."
Posted by on Wed, 05 Jan 2005 13:42:00 GMT