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Hi From varshakale in LET US TURN HISTORY INTO HERSTORY! (103 days old)

Hi everybody...how are you… more

Release of the Autobiography of Bar Singer From varshakale in LET US TURN HISTORY INTO HERSTORY! (564 days old)

(Geeta Shetty, Varsha Kale, Mahesh Bhatt, Vaishali Haldankar, Avinash Pandit) BOOK RELEASE CEREMONY OF 'BAR BALA', AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF BAR SINGER. BOOK WAS INAUGURATED BY NOTED FILM DIRECTOR MAHESH… more

A Comment on Brown's "Leadership" From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (574 days old)

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Publication of autobiography of Bar Singer From varshakale in LET US TURN HISTORY INTO HERSTORY! (587 days old)

This is cover page of autobiography of Vaishali Haldankar (bar singer) to be published on 11th April in Marathi language. Hopefully it will get translated and published in other languages in due c… more

BARBALA autobiography of Bar Singer Coming From varshakale in LET US TURN HISTORY INTO HERSTORY! (612 days old)

Shortly autobiography of woman bar singer about which I have mentioned many times earlier is going to be published. Everything is ready. Watch out for details soon.… more

Couldn't resist it From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (653 days old)

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2008 - A New End From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (679 days old)

Well, happy 2008 everyone. Apologies for the silence, but well . . . I was having too damn nice a holiday to care, really. Tucked away in a cosy lodge, away from the internet, uninspired holiday te… more

Reports of My Blog-Death From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (695 days old)

. . . are greatly exaggerated. I've just been horribly, horribly busy. Have come to the conclusion that Red Bull is about as effective as Mogadon in keeping one bright and alert, and the only noti… more

An Insult to Intelligence From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (710 days old)

15 Days in a Sudanese jail for letting some schoolkids calling a teddybear "Mohammed" and open demonstrations caling for the British teacher to be put to death. I don't see anyone lining up to ston… more

Some Observations From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (715 days old)

Southern Rail have announced, with much pomp and ceremony, that they will be running two trains per hour from my neck of the woods up to London. This, as they are keen to tell us, is as a result of… more

Wounded Knee From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (719 days old)

Surgery yesterday. After getting a look at it with the arthroscopy, the Consultant said the kneecap was "half off". I've been running and fencing on that. Movement seemed a lot better after t… more

It surely should come as some relief . . . From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (721 days old)

. . . to all you Facebook users out there, who are heartily sick of the technophobic press constantly trying to get another furlong out of the dead horse that is "Facebook will steal your identity", … more

Can You Survive? From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (723 days old)

Apologies for lack of posting, work is trying to kill me. Ha ha! No . . . I think they are. Anyway, Gusano has now "put a wiggle on" as they say and is making progress on the new film: Can You Surv… more

Model Behaviour From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (733 days old)

I'm less-than-amused to see the latest estimation for ID cards ramp up another 71 million. Anyone might think that the Government had absolutely no clue how much this was finally going to cost, and be… more

Remember, Remember From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (736 days old)

Everyone enjoy Guy Fawke's Night? Here's what should have happened: And just for those who want to imagine this happening to the current bunch of inept parasites, here's that wonderful momen… more

Tech News From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (741 days old)

You may have seen the article where MOD researchers are getting the press hyped up about an invisible tank. It seems a bit late in the day to try lending some degree of credibility to James Bond's Die… more

More Pomp and Ceremony From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (742 days old)

. . . for the head of a country where there is endemic corruption amongst politicians, the staggering wealth of the Royal Family places a massive reality disconnect between them and the conditions fa… more

House move is off From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (743 days old)

No-one was interested and now it looks like the market is going to do a neat little implosion, so H and I have decided not to take the opportunity to double our mortgage, thankyousomuch, and carry on … more

Faceless Enemies From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (747 days old)

I've restrained from commenting (much) on the McCann case, because whatever the truth of the matter, every possible outcome runs the spectrum from awful to tragic. I blame the Press and by extensio… more

Anyone know From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (748 days old)

why Thursdays seems to be the day I'm targeted for public abuse? Some old harpy lambasted me with a stream of invective this morning for the cardinal sin of letting some poor fucker off a train bef… more

Blogging break From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (748 days old)

I'm back. Actually I was back a fortnight ago but have been too ill or busy to write anything. To be honest, it's looking a bit crammed until the end of the year, and then 2008? I'm not sure I have th… more

A Sporty Weekend From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (765 days old)

I'm off on my travels again next week (Deafening chorus of "We don't care, Vort") But just pausing to note the fine games of rugby at the weekend, fine efforts from England an France who I would… more

School Dinners From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (770 days old)

I notice from the Guardian that "Jamie's School Dinners" are failing to win acceptance. Interesting use of language. Perhaps they're just using that specifically because we're all familiar with the… more

Mail Order Satisfaction From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (772 days old)

It's always kind of a hit 'n miss thing. You log on, you take a look through the photos and you wonder if they have just been run through photoshop, or have been grabbed from somewhere else just to ge… more

. . . and Justice for All From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (775 days old)

A nod to Metallica there, but without a 76-piece orchestra to fully capture the existentialist angst of all those riffs that go chugga chugga chugga as Metallica (and quite a few other Metal bands) se… more

Music Not to Relax to From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (776 days old)

I am in the position of potentially having done a lot of work for no reason . . . it depends if the swing-o-meter that is management decides to make another U-turn (in corp-speak "We are advancing on … more

Red Light District From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (777 days old)

The Labour Party Conference . . . ugghh. We know how desperate Brown is to distance himself from former-comrade-turned-psychotic-war-criminal, but were we really prepared to see him prostitute the par… more

Lessons from America pt 2 From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (778 days old)

I notice from Greg Palast's newsletter that Dan Rather, former CBS news anchor, is crying foul over President Bush's draft-dodging. In case you weren't aware of the scandal which got swept firmly u… more

Blog Alert! Woop! Woop! From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (779 days old)

So . . . shortly after G and Helly's departure, Abilene's blog goes base-over-apex and from what I can gather from the cryptic comments moblogged on the current homepage . . . doesn't look as if it's … more

Moving House From Vort1gern in Just what the world needs - another ranty blog (779 days old)

Anyone want a 3 bed semi in Worthing?… more