Yahoo answers thread:I went to a birthday party and about 3 hours ago.. anyway I swallowed a small amount of glow stick fluid. I don't know if was the non-toxic kind, but I'm assuming no.. Australian supermarkets wouldn't sell the toxic stuff to the public.. right? Anyway, my esophagus burns. I drank some milk but it feels like cold burning. It's ( Read more... )

Most disturbing garfield minus garfield ever. I can't begin to think what the smug lazy feline is doing, but I'm fairly sure he's administering fellatio and then biting Jon's cock off.

Sigh. Nobody told me today was BLOG ACTION DAY. I could have written a big rant about how global warming is good/bad (note to self: please check). Even Gordon Brown was at it. He is teh Perez Hilton of ecoblogtivism. He doesn't seem very sure if it's good or bad either, but at least he's taking action going to Copenhagen ( Read more... )

Wow! It's press censorship fun! The Guardian is being banned from reporting a parliamentary discussion (which should be a violation of the Bill of Rights), and can't even say what they're banned from saying. Most people suspect it involves the question "To ask the Secretary of State for Justice, what assessment he has made of the effectiveness ( Read more... )

Disturbing website of the week. NOT SAFE FOR WORK. OR HUMANITY. Even the URL's not safe for work. I think he loves her really.

It's been raining constantly since the start of September. And I've been feeling cold some of the time. Tcch, I've not felt cold for months. Truly these are the last days! (of summer ( Read more... )

How rubbish is Google Books? Very rubbish says Geoff Nunberg. To quote one of several examples:The first ten hits for Leaves of Grass are variously classified as "Poetry," "Juvenile Nonfiction," "Fiction," "Literary Criticism," "Biography & Autobiography," and mystifyingly, "Counterfeits and Counterfeiting."
Saw Ivo Pogorelich tonight, the Belgrade ( Read more... )

"You're like a leaf that the wind blows from one gutter to another." Build My Gallows High (aka Out of the Past) 9pm this Sunday on BBC Four. Mitchum! Kirk Douglas! Jane Greer!

Roger Ebert reviews G.I. Joe:"G. I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra" is a 118-minute animated film with sequences involving the faces and other body parts of human beings. It is ( Read more... )

At lunchtime I saw a car with a reg plate "Y7 GAY" (not sure about the first letter, actually).

On Wednesday I saw a snail trying to crawl across a footpath in Lochend. I hope he made it. Come on, wee man, you can do it!


( Read more... )

Sky TV is getting with the topicality and showing an evening of credit crunch Simpsons: Homer having to get heart surgery from Dr Nick, etc. But they also showed the first Xmas episode with Santa's Little Helper. Aww how sweet, brought a tear to my eye. It's always strange watching the really early Simpsons where Homer had a completely different ( Read more... )