Today it turns out that English police officers are instructing their dogs in German and two twins separated by birth married each other by accident. Usually I say you can't make this stuff up but in the second case I imagine that you can ( Read more... )

So I just put iTunes on shuffle. Should warn you that I've "only" got under nine hundred songs (Casey: "What are you... impotent?") at any rate all of this is probably going to be moderately obscure and I welcome you to cheat with Google ( Read more... )

( Samson )

I said to an audience in America the other day who were booing me for some reason I still don't understand. I said, Look, I don't want to be loved. And I thought that's the stupidest thing I've ever said - and the most false. I really very much need to be loved. I just don't want to be popular.

Christopher Hitchens, interview with the Guardian

"Hi there, Mr. Wind-Up Bird," said May Kasahara. "Are you still alive? Mr. Wind-Up Bird? Answer if you're still alive ( Read more... )

1. Pick ten twenty of your favorite movies and choose one still from each movie.
2. Post those stills in your journal.
3. Have your friends guess which movie goes along with each screen still.
(The answers revealed - and Harold and Maude should have been on this list too, don't know what I was thinking)

1.

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Subversion...

is the fact that Franz Ferdinand has macho altrock teen boys all over the United States humming "Do You Want To" at this exact moment.

Well, he's a friend and he's so proud of you ( Read more... )

Returned from Chicago. I hadn't been there since the last funeral. This one was very nice, very nationalist Welsh. They had my great uncle's medals from the AAF and his flyboy jacket and scarf on display, and also pictures of his plane from World War II - a B-26. They also hung the Welsh flag and a flag with the Davies crest on it, which I thought ( Read more... )

The morning I had to leave the writing program at Massachusetts, I hadn't even packed my things. Our last class ended by eleven; I kept thinking what I'd been saying the whole week, at odd moments I'd say, "I can't leave." I kept thinking that, I can't leave. I can't go home ( Read more... )

AIM with Pippa:

me: i love sabriel
me: the whole abhorsen trilogy actually
pippa: sabriel etc are some of the best books ever
pippa: them, the dark materials, and ender.
pippa: those are my staples that i'm taking to college with me
me: Krung Thep Mahanakhon Amon Rattanakosin Mahinthara Ayuthaya Mahadilok Phop Noppharat Ratchathani Burirom ( Read more... )