Setting Orange the Thirty-Third of Aftermath in the Year CUQ

In your house, there is a cockroach lying on its back. It is unable to right itself.

Do you:
a) kill it
b) leave it
or
c) help it?

Pungenday the Sixth of Aftermath in the Year CUQ

I've been silent here for some time now, most notably on the subject of my nation's legislature's recent decision to suspend habeus corpus until further notice. I don't want to talk about it. I'll let this article do my talking for me.

I like the article. It's cheerful. And optimistic.

Boomtime the Forty-Third of Bureaucracy in the Year CUQ

Ahoy, me maties! An' ye like it or nay,
'Tis International Talk Like a Pirate Day!
So wheree'er ye go an' whate'er ye say,
Be sure an' ye do it the pirate way.

Pungenday the Thirty-Ninth of Bureaucracy in the Year CUQ

If we are to believe Fred Barnard that a picture is worth ten thousand words,
and if (as according to Marlowe) Helen's face launched a thousand ships,
then couldn't a picture of Helen's face ghost-write a Patrick O'Brian novel?

Pungenday the Twenty-Fourth of Bureaucracy in the Year CUP

When the music's from the east and the wind is in the west
And we're gathered 'round to feast on fare we found in Budapest
And that spicy steam aroma curls beneath our every nose,
It is time to dance the Rattadance, and this is how it goes:
...A-ratta-tatta ratta-tatta ratta-tatta hey
... ( Read more... )

Boomtime the Eighteenth of Bureaucracy in the Year CUQ

She'll be driving six white horses when she comes
She'll be driving six white horses when she comes
...Though we can't tell what her course is
...From our trans-Atlantic sources ( Read more... )

Prickle-Prickle the Forty-Sixth of Confusion in the Year CUQ

The draft that Livejournal just offered to restore went like this:

Pungenday the Twelfth of Confusion in the Year CUQ

I'm going in for my driving test tomorrow morning.
( Ya )

Pungenday the Second of Confusion in the Year CUQI lay down on the road tonight and had a think. I considered going to sleep there, but I decided against it. Hard surfaces have never bothered me - I actually find them quite comfortable, if you lie just so - but the idea of being run over in my sleep was singularly unattractive. I think it did me ( Read more... )

Boomtime the Twenty-Ninth of Discord in the Year CUQ

"Researcher: Tectonic Plates Slowly Moving"

"Cost of Deporting Millions of Immigrants Very High"

I love Yahoo! news.

Sweetmorn the Twenty-Eighth of Discord in the Year CUQI've returned from a weekend at home where I read too much, slept too much, stayed awake too long, ate too little, and missed a train despite being more than a half-hour early to the station. As a result of missing the train, I was (later) once again on the train at the same time as the little ( Read more... )