I see the Guardian has jumped on the mephedrone exposé bandwagon. Standard stuff, but um, wow: I once accidentally left a spoon in a bag of [mephedrone] and came back three days later to find it had stripped off the outer coating.

I have to laugh when American pundits hold up the UK university system as something to aspire to, when we are ( Read more... )

There was a consensus that I should repost my delicious bookmarks and tumblr stuffs to my LJ, so... that's what I shall be doing!

( fanfic recs )

While the binary notions of gender in last week's QI made me twitch a little, I must say it was fucking nice to see Ronni Arcona and Sandy Toksvig tearing it up, holding court, while Jack Dee sat there, mostly mute, wearing this expression :/ (I HATE JACK DEE). I watched the XL version, but I hope that a lot of the discussion about female comics ( Read more... )

( Mad Men #2.01 - 90% squee, 10% actual thoughts )

I am so utterly charmed by Improv Everywhere, which is (as the name suggests) accounts of improv performances in New York. Some of them are the wanky, poseurish stuff you would expect, but the best ones are make-random-people-feel-good-about-themselves acts. My favourites:

Best Buy -- people stand around a Best Buy in duplicates of the uniform. I ( Read more... )

Create your own paint splatter!

I realize what I forgot to link in my big post o' links, so here's a little (SPAM, AHOY!) addendum:

Torchwood - Dead Ringers spoof (& part 2). Link gacked from missmomoko. This is actually almost too spot-on for me. It highlights all the reasons Torchwood is a fucking stupid show... but in a funny way! "Temporal disruptions in the timeline and fissures in ( Read more... )

Skins promo. Ohhh, the Sid/Tony angst! *flails* (Semi-relatedly! I really want someone [YOU! ...yes, you] to make a Tony video set to... pretty much any IAMX/Sneaker Pimps song. Ideally, 'The Negative Sex', although 'Sick', 'Think Harder', 'You Stick It In Me', 'Roll On', 'Bloodsport'... anything. Pick some dirty Chris Corner beatz and go with it ( Read more... )

I have to say, reading Angela Carter's The Sadeian Woman (which is feminist theory mixed with a cliff's notes version of the Marquis de Sade's writings... I would recommend it, if you're into that kind of stuff) has really amped up my inability to be squicked. Law & Order: SVU, which I would always watch with some combination of :/// & O__O on my ( Read more... )

My sister (who never emails me) sent me an email containing only a link to this website. At first I was all, weh?!? And then I started laughing so hard that I now have tears in my eyes. I guess she does know my sense of humour. Heh. The 'Town' page is worth a looksee if you need cheering up ( Read more... )