Here’s a short meme that I put on Facebook yesterday. I thought it was fairly cool, and might be of interest hence why I’m posting it here.

Feel free to copy the idea for your blog.

1. ..I'm dyslexic, dyspraxic and dyscalculic. I identify as disabled.
2. ..I can juggle although only currently with three balls. I’m working on clubs.
3. ..I always ( Read more... )

As a follow on post to the last entry about the sad news about Jade Goody I thought I’d post a poem, (which is near the bottom of this entry) by Philip Larkin.

This is a poem that, (somewhat sadly and embarrassingly) I recited on a regular basis to my parents whilst going through my teenage angst. I feel very sad about this because as an adult I ( Read more... )

As some of the press have reported recently, Jade Goody, has now been told she is dying from cancer. I find this news desperately sad.

Don’t get me wrong, I’m hardly what you call a fan, but she’s a human being and this means that as she stares into the abyss, to a certain degree, so do I. I also have compassion for the fact that she will now ( Read more... )

Two in a series of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ikm3o5hDks&feature=popm00us06

Another disturbing animal film but in a kinda cute way. Slightly weird though. I'm wondering if the cat thinks it's a rat, (maybe it grew up with rats from an early age or ( Read more... )

So I'm up early and I found this gem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkpm7bH7j4

Obama will never be as funny, (or hopefully as awful) as this guy, but thank God he's now taking over. I'd really love to be able to understand quite how this guy convinced several million ( Read more... )

Hmmmm. One in a series of...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3E-pHMN4DyA

I would normally say, 'enjoy' at this point, but this film is so wrong that I'm not quite sure what to say!

...my word is 'fearless'
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The film that I’ve embedded below from YouTube is of an incident that took place on new year’s day in Oakland, California. Put simply, an unarmed man, Oscar Grant, (who happened to be black) is shot by police whilst being restrained on a train platform ( Read more... )

This is a slightly nicer post than the last one ( Read more... )

Someone who a friend of mine, Punkgeezer, knew, was found dead in November. The reason I’m writing about this now is that it has come to light that the paramedics who attended to help him didn’t even bother to try to resuscitate him and acted in a frankly disgusting way. There’s quite a good piece in the Telegraph if you want to read more ( Read more... )