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Submit Response is a weblog by Jack Mottram, a journalist who lives in Glasgow, Scotland. There are 1308 posts in the archives. You can subscribe to a feed. This post was made on January 26, 2006 and belongs in the web category. The previous post was Today’s Links (25/01/06), and the next post is Today’s Links (27/01/06).

Four Things

I hate weblog memes as much as I love making lists and talk­ing about myself. So here goes…

Four jobs I’ve had:

  1. Free­lance music journalist.
  2. Free­lance art journalist.
  3. Free­lance tech­nol­ogy journalist.
  4. Free­lance whatever-else-they’ll-pay-me-to-write-about journalist.

Four films I can watch repeatedly:

  1. The Red Shoes
  2. Grey Gar­dens
  3. Orlando
  4. Uncle Buck (Can as in ‘am capa­ble of’. Long story.)

Four places I’ve lived:

  1. Noc­to­rum Lane
  2. Croft Drive
  3. Park Circus
  4. Uni­ver­sity Avenue

Four tele­vi­sion pro­grammes I like to watch:

  1. Deal Or No Deal
  2. Curb Your Enthusiasm
  3. Chan­nel 4 News
  4. Coro­na­tion Street (Though my heart belongs to Brookside.)

Four places I’ve been to on holiday:

  1. Budapest
  2. Zagreb
  3. Stockholm
  4. St. Jean D’Angely

Four of my favourite dishes:

  1. Confit du canard with pota­toes fried in duck fat.
  2. A full Scot­tish break­fast. (Not Eng­lish, I need potato scone and white pud­ding in the mix.)
  3. Eggy bread.
  4. Bone marrow on toast.

Four web­sites I visit daily:

  1. Metafil­ter
  2. Wikipedia
  3. Flickr
  4. A won­der­ful site I am not allowed to name, let alone link to.

Four places I would rather be right now:

  1. Zagreb
  2. A city in East­ern Europe, Cen­tral Europe or Scan­di­navia that I haven’t been to before.
  3. At a Prince gig. (Before 1989.)
  4. The future.

Four blog­gers I am tag­ging (sorry chaps!):

  1. Gen­eral Ape
  2. Sister Pho­net­ica
  3. Donny Hide
  4. Rob Annable

Thanks, Matt, for tag­ging me.

Posted at 8pm on 26/01/06 by Jack Mottram to the web category.
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  1. We are agreed on the bone marrow toast with pars­ley salad and salt, although I thought vietnamese-​style quail might make into your top four. I’m dying to know what your secret daily site is (is it rude?). Thanks for the tag­ging, although not sure I’m going to follow your lead and declare my quar­tets just yet (only know your blog!).

    Posted by Donny at 8pm on 26.01.06

  2. Curse you Mot­tram! It’ll give me some­thing to do on the tram at least.

    Posted by Rob at 12am on 27.01.06

  3. Are you sug­gest­ing I respond to this meme on my website?

    It’s all a ruse, to get me blog­ging again!

    Posted by sisterphonetica at 12am on 27.01.06

  4. Bone marrow on toast?

    Posted by Kate at 1pm on 27.01.06

  5. I’m dying to know what your secret daily site is (is it rude?)

    Nah - it’s a music file­shar­ing place, so strictly secret that if I were to men­tion it here by name I would be dead within the hour.

    Bone marrow on toast?

    Damn right! I’ve made it myself a couple of times, but you really need to eat it at St. John, the offal restau­rant in London. The tex­ture of marrow just scraped out of a roast­ing hot piece of bone is remark­able, and some­thing even more remark­able hap­pens when it inter­acts with the spe­cial salt they serve it with. I am sali­vat­ing as I type.

    It’s all a ruse, to get me blog­ging again!

    Curses, you’ve seen through my dev­il­ish scheme!

    Posted by Jack Mottram at 2pm on 27.01.06

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