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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: September 2014

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Friday, 19 September 2014. You ended up with a No? Think how we feel! Scotland, we knew the #indyref wasn't personal. You were sick of our government, not of us. We get it. Most of us feel the exact same way. For the most part the referendum was an exciting display of how democracy can work in the 21st century. Citizens of a free country were revelling in the street over the important decisions they were about to become party to - doesn't it make the world seem like a marginally more livable place? For o...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: June 2013

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Thursday, 6 June 2013. Most rock journalism is people who can't write, interviewing people who can't talk, for people who can't read." - Frank Zappa. Tags - general arsing about. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). There was an error in this gadget. Let's put on our Classics and have a little dance, shall we? I beg your pardon? Reasonably funny. I almost read it all." - Clive Psylence. Thank Katie :-)" - Carlos, Demand Records. Absolutely Tolerable. The best blog I've read all day." - Steven Baxter. Happier time...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: April 2013

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Monday, 29 April 2013. Be the venue you want to see in the world. Over the weekend I did a lot of characteristically small-town rural things. I visited family. I drank wine in front of an open fire. I had a roast dinner. I drank in a Wetherspoons. One thing I did that might be worth mentioning though, was the fact I went to see a burgeoning new house act play in a student club in Lancaster. Pubs that were once six-deep at the bar now struggle to hold on to patrons on pound a pint nights. Nights that ...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: Cry-laughing: An Epidemic

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Wednesday, 12 August 2015. People are crying laughing everywhere I go. They are crying real tears when a man falls into the road - an angry man, who deserves ridicule. They dissolve into weeping hysterics in the safe knowledge that they are right and understood, thanks to statements pasted alongside an illustration of Edwardian ladies or the Minion Scourge; something that would have once been dismissed as Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: Fwd: content bullshit. Tags - cry laughing emoji. What exactly is so fucking funny.

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: April 2015

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015. 4 simple things you can do today to make yourself happier. This morning my vice was i100, the Independent's hateful expanded Twitter feed of headlines and provocative sign offs designed with the intention of getting people (like me) to contemplate life and war on Facebook. The article was a listicle (of course it was), detailing 9 simple things I could do, right now, in order to be happier. I hated myself for clicking, but click I did. Weren't you happier then? Of course, when yo...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: April 2014

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Tuesday, 1 April 2014. Being just past my mid-twenties has hit me hard and I'm not sure why. I have two types of friends. Type 1 says of my continued and increasingly tiresome life crisis: "You're only 26 Katie. You're still very young. You're like Leonardo DiCaprio on the Titanic - you've got a whole world ahead of you. The iceberg is your forties, it's still a way off yet.". Type 2 says: "You're 26? I thought you were our age? Wow You just don't seem.no offense, you just seem a lot younger.". On my car...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: RIP Crystal Castles

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Wednesday, 8 October 2014. Just because we don't feel flesh, doesn't mean we don't fear death. Crystal Castles have announced they are splitting. Here are my favourite personal memories of listening to one of my favourite bands. This album basically came along at a time when I was feeling very, very shit and taught me how to say: "Fuck it, just go mental". I have never been more drunk or had more fun or been in more recovery positions. This was followed by the second worst hangover I've ever had. I awoke...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: 4 simple things you can do today to make yourself happier

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Wednesday, 8 April 2015. 4 simple things you can do today to make yourself happier. This morning my vice was i100, the Independent's hateful expanded Twitter feed of headlines and provocative sign offs designed with the intention of getting people (like me) to contemplate life and war on Facebook. The article was a listicle (of course it was), detailing 9 simple things I could do, right now, in order to be happier. I hated myself for clicking, but click I did. Weren't you happier then? Of course, when yo...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: October 2014

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Wednesday, 8 October 2014. Just because we don't feel flesh, doesn't mean we don't fear death. Crystal Castles have announced they are splitting. Here are my favourite personal memories of listening to one of my favourite bands. This album basically came along at a time when I was feeling very, very shit and taught me how to say: "Fuck it, just go mental". I have never been more drunk or had more fun or been in more recovery positions. This was followed by the second worst hangover I've ever had. I awoke...

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The Secret Little Portobello Mushroom: August 2013

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Thursday, 1 August 2013. Should we really care about band t-shirts? No, that's too commercial.". Once upon a time, band t-shirts were something you wore to display your personality outwardly to the world. Later in your life, they became less declarations of 'who you are', turning into simple tokens of things you appreciated. You felt strongly enough about something to wear it on your person. That's a good thing - it meant you'd not totally succumbed to apathy. I can't believe it! In the music news this w...