http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/ en-us Nucleus CMS v3.24 © Weblog http://backend.userland.com/rss http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog//nucleus/nucleus2.gif http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/ http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=133 The BBC is unlikely to do this because it will seem to be capitulating to mob rule.
However, it remains the case that overpaid presenters should be sacked as a waste of licence-fee money.

www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=133 Wed, 29 Oct 2008 03:27:37 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=132
One sign of this would be a little more control over the silly money handed out to BBC celebrities who host talk shows or other such entertainment and get paid ludicrous amounts of money by us, the licence=payers.

It's time to tax the rich and feed the poor.

www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=132 Mon, 13 Oct 2008 08:51:49 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=131 www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=131 Wed, 24 Sep 2008 08:32:18 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=130 All this is of course sour grapes as Oxford Cockaigne slides down the ratings each day due to my marked inability and disinclination for networking (or that's what I put it down to).

Of course if you read this and are an authonomy member you can always pop over there and back Oxford Cockaigne, add it to your Watchlist or give it a comment in order to bump it up. ]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=130 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:19:30 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=129 Anyone wanting to make any comments of a useful sort can email me on the contact page. ]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=129 Mon, 25 Aug 2008 08:25:06 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=128 How To See by Hunt Emerson and Kevin Jackson.
Details available at www.ruskin.org.uk

www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=128 Tue, 15 Jul 2008 02:27:20 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=127 http://www.youtube.com/user/oxford2015interviews

Twelve short films made by filmmaker Marko Wilkinson as part of Modern Art Oxford's 2005 exhibition - Oxford 2015 DREAMS PLANS VISIONS.

Each film is a short interview with an Oxford resident, talking about how the city's built environment effects their life, and how they would like to see it change and improve by the year 2015.

The films were originally shown as an installation on twelve separate screens placed throughout the museum.


www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=127 Tue, 1 Jul 2008 03:54:38 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=126 Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs produce a perfume oil called Cockaigne.
They have a forum where members review it at
http://www.bpal.org/index.php?showtopic=25831&st=125

I stumbled across this during one of my searches for Cockaigne on the Internet and, at first, thought that they were reviewing a bottle of wine!

Subsequent investigation seems to reveal that this perfume oil makes you smell like a sticky sweet cake - so,if that's your thing, hurry across to Black Phoenix Alchemy Labs to buy it.

In the interests of all things Cockaigne, I'll try and get hold of a bottle myself - they also do a perfume oil called Absinthe so I may be smelling of Cockaigne or Absinthe shortly.

www.Oxfordcockaigne.com ]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=126 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 04:56:08 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=125 Oxford Cockaigne has now been on Authonomy and Youwriteon for several weeks and it is clear that it doesn't fit into the most popular submissions for either website.
However, there are some people who do like it. It would be nice if, eventually, one of those turned out to work for a publisher.
In Oxford Cockaigne's alternative reality all publishers love it.

www.oxfordcockaigne.com]]> General http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=125 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 14:30:31 -0700 http://oxfordcockaigne.com/jcblog/index.php?itemid=124 The Library At Night "a beautiful rendered meditation on the meaning of libraries through history" and also The dictionary of Imaginary Places which brings together over 1200 imaginary places drawn from the literature of countries around the world. This was produced in 1980 by Manguel and Gianni Gudalupi.

I've also got a copy of "Stevenson Under The Palm Trees" from 2002 to read and then there is A History of Reading, The City of Words and The Iliad and The odyssey: A Biography to pursue.

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