I wrote in my moleskine today.

Stereo Horizon are playing at The Grapes tomorrow (Tuesday) night. Imagine if Matt Bellamy had sex with everyone in the Arcade Fire on top of an electric keyboard. You should totally come.

This news story confuses me. Can anybody point me at statistics so I can work out what proportion of the country actually wants this to happen?

The Company are doing The Importance of Being Earnest next week, Wednesday to Saturday. Facebook info here: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=26762603374 I'm at Tim Minchin on the Wednesday, so who would like to go and when ( Read more... )

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"Higher octane ratings correlate to higher activation energies. Activation energy is the amount of energy necessary to start a chemical reaction. Since higher octane fuels have higher activation energies, it is less likely that a given compression will cause knocking... It might seem odd that fuels with higher octane ratings explode less easily, ( Read more... )

I tried, poorly, to describe this article to Alexis a few weeks ago, and it occurs to me now, looking back at some of my writing and wondering exactly how much of 2002-5 I wasted, that many or most of you won't have read it but will probably enjoy it. Do so now.

You sha'n't be seeing me about much this week; partly because I'm drawing some of my finances together after somewhat panic-strickingly last week obliviously going so far through my overdraft I ought to have come out the other side, but mostly because a lot of work is taking place in the bar this week before a minor reopening shindig on the Friday ( Read more... )

I'm going to imagine that dragons behave as if they've drunk a bottle of wine all the goddamn time.

Due to a brief and otherwise mundane conversation I had last night, I dreamed about the theoretical point in adulthood where one stops preferring roleplaying books for their use as trays and instead opts for the roll-up-and-swat-flies variety ( Read more... )