Strange sad day and ending with a healthy dose of fear ( Read more... )

I am at that stage of exhaustion where I should just sleep but when I close my eyes I am SO AWAKE OMG SO AWAKE /o\ so although the post I want most to make is about Twelfth Night yesterday I'm going to leave that till I'm more stable and here are some videos I think you should watch *g*

• The Brownlee brothers in a Yorkshire Tea advert♥♥♥ ridiculous ( Read more... )

Today, as Aleppo crumbles, I've had this poem I read last month in my head. It's more than a century old because however many times we say "never again" we never learn.Stand strong, wall of sorrow ( Read more... )

Eventually I'm going to stop being amused that NASA sent Jupiter's wife to check up on him and his moon mistresses... I say eventually because it hasn't happened yet ( Read more... )

I anyone else obsessively watching for news of the Rosetta mission? Philae is on its way down (land safely little robot!)

I currently have open the Philae2014 and ESA_Rosetta twitter accounts, BBC's live update page and of course today's XKCD which is updating regularly mostly with harpoon related comments *g*

On Sunday seiyaharris and I went to West End ( Read more... )

Looking at the pictures of the Glasgow School of Art on fire and I just feel sick. I'm glad everyone's safe but those poor students! All their work ruined just weeks before their degree shows and then the building itself... it's absolutely horrible ( Read more... )

The news today has been unremittingly bleak- the top three BBC stories right now are all about deaths and then there are several few about protests :-/ Personally my day started at 2am with a call from our work alarm company which I then worried about for ages because there was nothing I could do. I live too far away and had been drinking so couldn ( Read more... )

Feeling quite accomplished today and it's not even midday. Of course that probably means I will now fail to do anything else all day *g*

I'm going to try and write some rather briefer reviews than I normally run to because I'm afraid otherwise I'll never catch up.

( Chimerica @ Harold Pinter Theatre )

Well doing this art month thing is making me post but it's mostly only making me post the actual art, I'm having difficulties posting about other things in my head right now though I will try.

Anyway today's art comes from a news story and the whole thing is unutterably sad.

( Art August #13 : Torbryan Panels (unknown) )

I've done something to my shoulder. I'm not really sure what but it just feels slightly uncomfortable and wrong and so I'm holding myself awkwardly and now my neck hurts :-/ So I'm going to take some painkillers and go to sleep because probably the laptop isn't helping matters ( Read more... )