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When I first heard this song I hated it. I thought they'd jumped on the synths bandwagon, but it seems it's a grower.

I've been reading The End Of Mr. Y by Scarlett Thomas and I'm loving it. One of the quotes from a reviewer read: "Mindboggling, brainy and playful. Stretches from theoretical physics to immensely dirty sex scenes, and packed ( Read more... )

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1 -- Leave a comment, saying you want to be interviewed.
2 -- I will respond; I'll ask you five questions.
3 -- You'll update your journal with my five questions, and your five answers.
4 -- You'll include this explanation.
5 -- You'll ask other people five questions when they want to be interviewed.

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My questions were from miramanga

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I've been rather neglecting LJ of late.  There's no particular reason that I can think of.  But anyway, since A LOT of things have happened, here is another  "my week in lists"

• Grace got tickets to see Adam & Joe do some kind of Song Wars affair at the Roundhouse during the Electric Proms.  We had no idea what it was all about but y'know, free ( Read more... )

Call for submissions: Academics on Zombies

The recent publicity over the academic work "When Zombies Attack!:
Mathematical modelling of an outbreak of zombie infection":

http://www.mathstat.uottawa.ca/~rsmith/Zombies.pdf

illustrated the power that bridging popular culture and academia can have.
As a result, the authors of that paper are putting together ( Read more... )

Had an epic zombie dream last night, involving Colleen Rooney, Gatwick trainstation and a multistorey carpark with curtains.  I think it's less to do with the zombiephilic news recently, and more to do with the fact that I nearly had a panic attack yesterday on the way into work, then nearly had one today IN work.  I always get zombie dreams when I ( Read more... )

I've been pretty paranoid about something for a while now.  Maybe paranoid is the wrong word.  I've become aware of something, shall we say, and I'm noticing it more and more.  I don't know if I'm imagining it, if it's really happening and is intentional, or if it's really happening but is unintentional.  Grace said to me Eurovision night that she ( Read more... )

( Obligatory Christmas Update )

So I have somewhere to live in London, in 3 weeks I will be a resident of...

KENTISH TOWN BABY!

It's in a crimp, so it must be cool, yes yes?  On the Northern Line, great for me for work.  1 bedroom flat, 6 mins from Kentish Town tube, 15 mins from Camden Town tube.  All is good...apart from the fact I haven't seen it, just going on the Matthewman's ( Read more... )