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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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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 ninth installment of All Things English…
It is all about the Royal College of Art Show.  On display is silversmith designer Kathryn Hinton’s great bowl & fork set.   The prongs of the forks correspond with the words imprinted in the bowl as though stamped during a feeding frenzy.  Brill!

And Freddie Yauner’s exit sign that comes [...]

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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 [...]