Quit your day job. Go on. I dare you.

This place offers an eat-all-you-want buffet of great vegetarian Indian food for £2.95. There’s 4 or 5 delicious curries, 3 kinds of rice, chapatti, dhal, bhaji – the works. You can be in and out as quickly as you like, and of course if you want a non-dairy lhassi to compliment your meal, then it’s not a problem.

Personally I went to the Indian chap’s paper shop next door. He bought a job lot of really nice mango juice recently, but he reckons the English don’t like mango juice because it tastes too ‘meaty’ for them. I do though, and seeing as he’s flogging them half price I’ve just got back from the most delicious, healthy, nutritious and perfectly filling lunch I’ve had since I got to London having spent £3.30. Bargain.

Jpod is the latest novel from Canadian author Douglas Coupland. Most famous for his novel Generation X which cross a line and actually created a zeitgeist, my personal favourite is his novel Microserfs, written in the 1990s about a group of coders who leave a safe job at Microsoft to create a one-point-oh technology company.

Jpod follows microserfs but is drawn from the Google generation. We get involved with the inner high-functioning autistic lives of a bunch of games developers. It’s harder, edgier, the escapades have become more surreal and more emotionally flattened. Coupland uses the unusual technique of putting himself into the novel. It’s pure evil in a world where good and evil aren’t quick enough to keep up.

Best page. 397. There is nothing on this whole page except for one line in subscript in the middle of the page. “I’m so fucking sick of Google”.

It’s fucking brilliant. Buy it from Amazon now.

Beer is for breakfast.

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I was staying in my bosses spare rooom last night, in Islington. It’s a book pad in Islington; gated, secure with a place to ark the Porche.

Which seemed quite handy seeing as some monkey got shot in the face on Upper street last night. Some maniac with a gun and a hoodie running around in Angel apparantly.

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