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Wallace & Gromit… Fashionistas?
For my twelfth installment of All Things English… let me break down my Wallace & Gromit obsession for you.  As a child I enjoyed their antics but when I was in college I found a W&G alarm clock that rang with “Morning Gromit!  Time for walkies!” in his famous English accent.  At that moment, [...]

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The streets of New Orleans are patrolled by a vigilante called The Gray Ghost, 52 year old Fred Radtke, a man who’s been systematically obliterating every piece of graffiti across the city with the same shade of gray paint since 1997. 
For my eleventh installment of All Things English… check out how British street artist Banksy used [...]

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For my tenth installment of All Things English…

English supermodel Kate Moss has officially earned her weight in gold thanks to English artist Marc Quinn’s latest sculpture called Siren.  His sculpture of Moss is said to be the largest solid-gold statue to be made in the world since the time of Ancient Egypt.  Quinn estimated the value of [...]

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Le Cool Publishing is a completely independent publishing company that is dedicated to creating guidebooks filled with the most awesome underground experiences that reflect the city’s true flavor rather than the “hippest or latest” lemming crap.
I am excited to report that as of this May, the London version was published… putting it in my ninth installment of [...]

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For my eighth installment of All Thing English…
It seems that punting is a quintessential past time for English University students and… tourists alike.  So how do you tell them apart aside from the cameras slung around their necks and slightly-louder-than-necessary voices?  Their punting skills, of course!

Cambridge University, worried its undergraduates have lost the knack, has come [...]

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My seventh installment of All Things English…
So, England’s Office of Government Commerce unveiled their new logo…

Looks like a good logo, right?  Clear.  Simple.  Bold.  Until you turn it on its side…  and see a bow-legged man with his hand on his… um, chubby.

Although perhaps an indecent proposal, I say, “Free yourself from the chains of respectable modesty [...]

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My sixth installment of All Things English…
Tim Soong wedding plans were wrecked after British Airways managed to lose his luggage which included his and his best man’s suits, and the bride-to-be’s wedding dress.  As if that wasn’t  bad enough, BA continued to add insult to injury by not offering an apology or compensation for their error
He got revenge by posting [...]

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My fifth installment of All Things English…
For me, shopping isn’t just about spending money and in return collecting things to take home.  I am more about the experience (maybe if I had more money to spend it would be different… who knows) which includes the sights, sounds and tastes!  That is why I cant wait [...]

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My fourth installment of All Things English… 
I had a feeling this would become a trend given peoples reactions to my previous post Tide Chandelier…

This, my friends, is literally glowing trash art… a.k.a. another trash chandelier.  And once again, it looks pretty cool. 

This design is by David Batchelor, who although actually Scottish, lives his life as a sculptor, artist, [...]

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My third installment of All Things English…

I can’t wait to check out the East Beach Cafe in the small seaside town of Littlehampton.  This extraordinary fish ‘n chips hut looks like nothing you have ever seen before… or have you?!?! 

This restaurant was designed by Thomas Heatherwick, a British renaissance man who takes credit for designing loads of things [...]