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Went out yesterday for my first proper ride this year on my T900. I bloody love this bike.

We stayed at the Hotel New Grand. Obviously we went for a flash room because it was our honeymoon but the hotel in general seemed pretty decent. Great views of the harbour, right next to Chinatown and the baseball stadium and a short walk to the Red Brick Warehouse area.

As the title suggests. I like it but I have way too many t-shirts and need to downsize. Good condition, worn a good few times but still in decent nick. Bit creased from storage.

£5 collected from Southsea. £7.50 posted.

Even the 'slow' ones don't hang around.

Another +1 for the JR Pass. Lets you use pretty much all the smaller trains and some of the Shinkansen.

We did a few days in each of Tokyo, Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya, and Yokohama, then back to Tokyo.

If you've got any tattoos then be aware you won't be able to go to any of the public baths or onsen. (There was a humourous exchange where one of the hotel staff offered me a sticker sized about 2" square to cover mine up. I had to try and explain that I'd need about 100 of them to cover all of them, which got a laugh at least)

Pocket Wi-Fi was well handy - booked it online, picked up the little box at the airport then dropped it back before we headed home.

We basically just walked everywhere most of the time - had a rough destination in mind then just explored. Loved it and I'd go back there tomorrow if we could afford it.

Fergus Quill session on 6 Music last night was mad in the best way.

Yep. Coincided with our decision to go vegetarian. I'm not saying it was solely responsible for it, but we'd been considering it for a while and then we both read it and I think it was the thing that pushed us over the edge.

Worst possible combination of teams for the SB for me. I'll still be behind the Niners though because fuck the Chiefs, obviously. I just don't want it to be the Swift Bowl.

Bit late to the conversation but I went to the Ice Cube/Cypress Hill show at the O2 as well - cracking show all round but ruined for me by the atrocious sound (at least it was where my seat was). Bass so loud that it drowned everything else out - and that was with earplugs.

So imagine how pleased I was to see Cypress Hill were playing in Brooklyn at the exact time that we'll be out there on holiday. Yes please. Souls of Mischief and The Pharcyde supporting. Hopefully it'll more than make up for the crap experience at the O2!

I hate the Chiefs so much but I feel like Jason Kelce is a good guy and he was having a great time last night. And anything is better than constant reaction shots of Taylor Swift.

I'd go for an 'anyone but the Chiefs' Bowl. It's a real entertaining line-up of teams left.

Cypress Hill have just announced a tour with Souls of Mischief and The Pharcyde - and they're in New York at the same time we are. Going to try for tickets later on. Hopefully it'll make up for the awful sound at the O2 when I saw them with Ice Cube recently...

We need to keep hold of Antonio Pierce or we're done for the next season already. He's made us into a different team in less than half a season.

Neither - I just wanted a tattoo and I like them? I also have a narwhal. Sea stuff is just cool.

I've got an octopus tattoo. Because I like them. Am I a racist now? It's so confusing.

Went skating for the first time in about three years since quitting roller derby last week - and there was definitely a bunch of muscles that I obviously don't use when cycling because my legs and hips are still feeling it. Was good fun though...

Re. the Ice Hockey incident - cheers for the clarification, everything I keep hearing leaves out the details about what actually happened, and I'm thinking that a manslaughter charge is horrendous for what I assumed was just a gameplay incident. If it was aggressive and targeted, that's a bit different.

Use the code '1111' for 25% off everything today...

From my memory, that Chase & Status one would probably pay for the decks itself...

(Edit: actually no, didn't realise it wasn't the full LP. Still, there's a few quid's worth there.)

RAIDERS ARE BACK BABY WOOOO WE'RE GOING TO THE SUPERBOWLLLLLL

Obviously not. But that felt like a different team last night. I know it's only the Giants with a 3rd-string QB, but I hope it puts a bit of fire back in the team.

Record arrived last week, but haven't listened yet. The first one was great though, so I'm hoping for more of the same.

All you've done there is remind me how much I want to go back to Bubala. Best Baba Ganoush I've ever eaten.

New Aesop Rock sounds good from what I've heard so far - just put in a pre-order for the vinyl.

YESSS MCDIPSHIT IS GONE

Now we can go back to sucking for other reasons instead!

Usually I think they are, yes, but I've found that even people who do buy hardbacks buy them reluctantly, just like you've assumed.
Unfortunately I just think it's a money thing. If publishers can get people to buy a £20+ hardback over a -£10 paperback, then they're going to do that and squeeze as much out of people as they can, I guess.

Having said that - one of our most successful and steadiest selling book series are the Penguin clothbound classics, which you can pick up paperback copies of for peanuts but people can't get enough of the fancy ones - and to be fair they do look amazing on a shelf. So people will buy hardbacks gladly - if they're getting something good for their money.