So...I hear Pinochet is dead.


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I'm alone in the office again. Co-workee is sick, again In a half hour George will hobble in, glaucoma and all, I will run to the computer on the other side of the room and turn Radio6 off ("Must we always have this row on, Dear?"), and we will remain in almost completely uninterrupted silence bar his long mumbling farts until the end of the day ( Read more... )

To: World
Try and piss me off. I dare you! Try and push me ever closer to the edge of something sharp and dangerous. Blast me off with your best shot! TRY IT! Move a finger and I will laugh in your face, spit in you eye and invite your worst enemy for a drink. Today it seems, Veronica is in a sprightly mood.


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This > http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1924905,00.html < is rather exiting slash terrifying. My grandmother is finally vindicated!
This is the synopsis of the one she's watched every afternoon for the last twelve years:

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Q Awards nominees have been announced. The best bit is, NONE OF IT IS A JOKE! OMFGZ.

Best Act In The World Today:
Muse
Coldplay
Oasis
U2
Red Hot Chili Peppers

The man behind me is old. And when I say old, I mean really old. He possesses the kind of oldness that hinges not on an actual numerical accumulation of years lived, but which is written on the skin for all to see. He is 86 years old. His body is that of a very well-worn 86 year old man who still attends work four days a week: sitting in ( Read more... )

V's

He held the note for a long time. It smelt of iris and there was something in the shape of the letters and the irregular spacing of the lines that stirred him as a disordered dress would have done. Flaubert - The Sentimental Education


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