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Facebook: the world’s most popular social-networking site that pretty much everyone uses on a daily-basis, and for free. Not only does it easily enable us to send messages to one another and keep track of what our friends are up to—including viewing their photographs and contact information—it also enables predators to find and research potential victims. How can you know who has really added you as a friend? How can you be certain of the identity of this person?

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Camden, Underwhelmed

Growing up among the rolling hills of Wiltshire, Camden Town felt like an unreachable oasis; home to many of the urbane, impossibly cool (well, so I thought at the time) bands I worshipped. Ten years on, I journeyed across Mecca of my youth. Perhaps I was setting myself up for disappointment.

The sprawling World’s End and its subterranean sister club, the Underworld, are perhaps Camden’s More

Top Ten List: How to Be Positive

Want to be happy but don’t know how, exactly? It’s a tricky one, as we all know, and the sadder you are the harder it is to go the other way. Don’t ask me, I have no idea, all I have are a few suggestions about how to go in the right direction. Take these with a pinch of salt, and maybe it’ll help you think of a few of your own:

1) Sing along to really bad, funny music. More

Strip, Tease and Valentines Entertainment

Not thought of anything to do for Valentines yet? Perhaps this might twinge your hinge. Whether you are a loved up couple or a hot-blooded singleton looking for love, why not head down to the well known and much loved night club, The Scala, on Pentonville Road for a night of cabaret entertainment famed for fun, frolicks–and fluff!

Yes, indeed, Bunny Warren presents ’Yes yes yes!’ a night of valentine vivacity with a poignant theme of love and romance. It More

Bar Music Hall: The Best in London Nightlife

The idea of Bar Music Hall in Shoreditch had us in very good spirit. So we headed down to Curtain road where it is located, and braced ourselves for some innovative snacks and beaming punters. What we discovered though was refreshingly different in the already packed town. It has a large bar with a magnificent kitchen and a great environment for a good night out.

Bar Music Hall was spacious, on the Tuesday night though it felt a little bare More

Lonely In London - It’s Time To Meddle!

London, as we all know, is the world’s greatest city, teeming with 7 million people and with a never ending supply of things to do and places to go to. When you are on your own in London though, this otherwise friendly metropolis can seem like the loneliest place in the world. At every corner you bump into couples happy in each others arms, restaurants are full of tables for two and supermarkets are offering buy one get one free More

A Tyre-ing Day.

I was a complete insomniac last night and decided to go trolling round the web for something to keep me occupied, and I ended up on the House Forum until the early hours of the morning and woke up really tired. Then this happened to me:

How unlucky can you get? I sometimes wonder if I am living under a curse. Perhaps my ancestors upset a witch doctor many years ago…

My day started off with me discovering I had More

The Work of Berni Wrightson.

From a very early age I have always had a great love of American comics. ‘The Beano’ and ‘Dandy’ used to tickle me sometimes, but artwork-wise, they just didn’t cut it. When I bought my comics as a kid they were more along the lines of ‘The House of Mystery’.

Comic art is sadly overlooked a lot of the time. It gets more recognition today than it ever did, but still not as much as it deserves. There are a lot of truly amazing artists in the world of comics and one of my absolute favourites has to be Berni Wrightson.

Wrightson illustrated several of the stories in ‘The House of Mystery’, but he hit the big time when he started working on ‘Swamp Thing’. His highly stylised drawings were perfect for the story and fans could not get enough.

Over the years he has gone on to work in many other areas. He has dabbled with album covers, films and book illustration. Meatloaf’s ‘Bat out of Hell’ and ‘Dead Ringer’ were both drawn by Berni Wrightson, as were the illustrations for ‘Cycle of the Werewolf’ and ‘The Dark Tower’ by Stephen King. He also created a whole graphic novel of the film, ‘Creepshow’ when it was released in 1982. Comics that contain the work of Wrightson are hugely collectable and they always hold their value. If you want to get buy any of his stuff then it is certainly going to cost you.

Some of his greatest drawings are the ones for ‘Frankenstein’ and the tales of Edgar Allen Poe. Berni Wrightson really is one of the great ‘daddy illustrators’ in the comic scene and he is very highly respected.

Almost Compulsory Vaccinations – What Happened to Our Democracy?

How can the Government hope to win voters if they are going to give parents little option as to whether or not their children are vaccinated? Yes, there’s a lot of reasons why vaccinations are a good idea, the decrease in such diseases as polio have proven that, but unfortunately that’s not the whole story.

What about the fact that there is still a link perceived between some of these vaccinations and various forms of Autism? There’s been no absolute More

New Twin peaks coming out

Universal play back are going to bring out a new version of Twin Peaks I believe. It might just be a rumour but lets hope it’s true. That show was super messed up. I really love the constant plot twists. The page is here twin peaks. Check it out guys ow and by the way welcome to my new blog. Sorry if it a bit full of itself but what did you expect from me pray tell?