I don’t know what I’d be doing with myself if I wasn’t preoccupied by Yuletide right now.  Making Tim Drake and Conner Kent be BFF on the Sims, most probably. Certainly I don’t think I’d be any more likely to be actually training for Gotham tryouts tomorrow.

But I am preoccupied by Yuletide and I find my brain wanting to do nothing more than ( Read more... )

I used to get to link blog regularly thanks to Delicious and Delicious Glue - now most of my link sharing happens through Facebook and Twitter, so if I want to do a regular linkblog over here, I'm going to have to farm my links myself. As you might notice, I have a new LibDemmery type icon. I guess actually declaring my new partisan status means ( Read more... )

Last night, accompanied by davegodfrey and Andrew, I went to the Nine Lessons and Carols for Godless People at the Bloomsbury. I missed this celebration last year due to the arrival of Abby, but it was definitely worth going this time ( Read more... )

If you've known me for any length of time, you'll know I have a Taste in music. I was president of the Rock and Metal society; my 'music' icon on LJ is a portrait of a certain founding member of the shock rock genre. I wear a lot of black ( Read more... )

And lo, this is what I have been doing today. Exciting, innit?

• 23:28 New LJ post: Brat Twitters tinyurl.com/dfx3qv #
• 09:56 Linkspam: CBC Radio | Quirks & Quarks: Thanks, Rick. One for me to subscribe to when I get home. www.cbc.ca/quirks/ #
• 10:17 Huh, I appear to be having a nosebleed. #
• 10:56 Linkspam: Hubble's Next Discovery - You Decide: Vote ( Read more... )

Too long for Twitter: It should be realised that if Meat Loaf's Where the Rubber meets the Road is about Melaka Fray and Dean Winchester having an ill-advise emotionally charged mutually therapeutic fuckfest, then the line Cop in the front seat, Lawyer in the back seat, gettin' it all on videotape refers to their respective siblings ( Read more... )

The following contains twittering:

• 10:06 And the question for the morning is: why do I have Barry Manilow on my iPod? #
• 10:46 just found out Amazon.co.uk now sell socks, and got a bit lost.*resists* #
• 11:38 I only found out this morning there was a earthquake in Pakistan last week. Thank you, British Press, for getting your priorities straight. #
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  Sam Bee on "women's health," abortion and penis babies
  
  I am so very sad that the Daily Show is no longer on Virgin on Demand. I love Sam Bee- watch her really get to grips with John McCain's airquotes.
  
  (tags: vids humour politics)
  
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  Towards an Intersectionality of Atheism and Race
  
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This morning an article in the Metro someone was reading caught my eye - For the life of me I can't remember what it was, but I'm sure you'll forgive me when I explain what happened next ( Read more... )

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  Another PSA Blames Rape Victims
  
  A PSA from the Queensland Government: if your daughter is raped, it's your fault. Yes, you read that right.
  
  Thank you, Queensland, for reminding us that boys don't rape, girls get raped. And we should all blame the parents.
  
  TRIGGER WARNING.
  
  (tags: rape vids)
  
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  Star ( Read more... )