I’m not that keen on “weird things people search for and end up at this blog” posts, (although my sitemeter does give me frequent quiet moments of amusement and rarer bouts of disgust) but: People who are arriving at this… Read More ›
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Ow! Chris is making my ribs hurt again!
Too bad Mum’s gone home or you’d be in big trouble, Mr. Clarke. I was managing to muffle my rib-bruising shrieks of laughter until this bit of your Pitch to Marie-Claire magazine for articles to correct their perceived left-wing slant:… Read More ›
Friday Random Ten – Quick post before crime night edition
aka the when Mum comes to visit edition, because that’s when we go out to a beachside cafe for breakfast: We shared scrambled eggs on multigrain toast and field mushrooms with goats’ cheese on toasted sourdough, with apple/carrot/celery/ginger juice. This… Read More ›
Have you just had a very long meeting?
Which produced nought but numbness from seating?Next time such arrivesHelp your brain to surviveWrite for OEDILF while wankers are bleating. The Omnificent English Dictionary In Limerick Form 28,000+ limericks and going strong. We are now working on all words beginning… Read More ›
Tangled Bank #54 is up
The fortnightly carnival of science-blogging is on again, hosted by Coturnix (who is shortly joining the Seed lords at Scienceblogs) over at Science and Politics: Tangled Bank #54 Check out previous Tangled Banks. This time around I’m chuffed both that… Read More ›
This just in: Heather Mills perhaps not totally evil
I just saw a picture similiar to this held up on telly on a UK tabloid-watch segment, and thought, (as one does with regard to this particular HM), “PR manipulating cow” – for years we’ve never seen a shot of… Read More ›
Obscene on LJ
Apparently, LiveJournal has no problem with default userpic icons that depict breasts as below, because despite the unapologeticly abundant display of flesh for no other reason than titillating the male gaze, there is an all-important level of decency maintained by… Read More ›
Flutey does Eurovision
I must have missed an announcement – a bit over a month ago Flutey said ta-ta to blogging (Ozblogistan mourned), but he’s been sneakily posting things for more than a week! Anyway, he live-blogged the cheesilicious Eurovision Song Contest, which… Read More ›
Curious
we just tuned into Auntie to watch the David Wenham (obPhwoah!) minseries Answered by Fire, set in East Timor in the days leading up to the 1999 referendum on independence from Indonesia. But it’s not on, despite having been advertised… Read More ›
Save Nazanin
Spread the word about international support for the 18-year old Iranian girl Nazanin Mahabad Fatehi, who has been sentenced to death by hanging. In previous cases international activism and publicity has saved the lives of other Iranians sentenced to death… Read More ›
Hoyden About Town 