This morning when I turned on my PC I saw my friend's gnome icon and I thought, did I have a dream involving Bratz Dolls and garden gnomes? But no, it was something I saw on TV last night, and they were fashion pixies. Something to cheer me up on the way to work: a truck carrying a burnt-out Porsche. It looked like arson rather than an engine ( Read more... )

New Statesman reviews The Israel Lobby and US Foreign Policy by John J Mearsheimer & Stephen M Walt. Yawn. But the first comment (by Carl Jones) is brilliant.Hollywood is run by Jews...all 5 top media corporations are owned, or run by Jews. Charlie Sheen has openly questioned the official 9/11 account...do a Google search for CS and the third ( Read more... )

Guardian readers, sensitive liberals one and all:

I'm pregnant and single. How will I cope financially?"Do change your mind, have an abortion, and accept that you have been stupid and irresponsible by becoming pregnant. Determine to wait until you are in a loving, stable relationship before having children. Grow up in the mean time; you sound like ( Read more... )

Heroic horse halted cow's attack.

Terry Castle: Travels with my mom. Santa Fe, polymer clay, scrapbooking, rubber stamp shops, jackalopes, Agnes Martin, Georgia O'Keeffe, bored Native Americans, lesbians, top ten great female artists, mother-daughter bonding ( Read more... )

( Saint Tom Waits, sinner Ingmar Bergman, and the biggest star in British television )

Yeah. I've come to the conclusion that the people who put hedges and trees and grass verges at the side of the road are in fact evil, and they're just trying to entice innocent woodland creatures to run into traffic and be squashed. There was a dead hedgehog today, but at least no foxes. It's like a million Watership Downs, with a million Art ( Read more... )

Livingston is shrouded in thick fog. The rain was torrential in Edinburgh at 9.40am this morning. Several people were building large wooden boats and collecting pairs of beetles. Then Richard Dawkins descended from the heavens and gave them some magic hay that the lions could eat ( Read more... )

I live in the cultural centre of the world! It's true!Former Pop Idol winner Michelle McManus is to star in a disco version of the nativity story. The Scottish singer, 27, will boogie on down to Bethlehem as Mary in a panto-style production set to disco music which premieres at Edinburgh’s fringe festival in August.
Would somebody pay me to go see ( Read more... )

Last night I dreamt I went to Amsterdam and then on returning to work people demanded why I didn't visit our ex-colleague in SE Netherlands. There was more time spent on the latter inquisition than the actual visit. I quite often dream about being asked awkward questions at work (like why I never do any work and whether I don't care about the ( Read more... )

I spend the afternoon at work reading stuff about history on Wikipedia. I now know a lot more about Finland (particularly its dealings with Germany and the USSR, and the province of Karelia), and a bit more about the happy Poles and their history of ace fighter-pilots and antisemitism ( Read more... )