I'm not a hippy or anything, but I'm thinking of going the Burning Man festival next year. It sounds and looks insane. Really, I'm just looking for a fresh injection of random insanity into my life again, as it's been a while since I had a good ol' fashioned adventure. But it'll cost over £1000 to get there from London! MADNESS, I SAY.

But I did ( Read more... )

 
I saw Springsteen.


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I'm still slow to update this thing. Sorry. I'm trying. My paid account expired and all my pictures went away, and LJ wouldn't give them back until I paid them. So I did. They're like a modern day version of those guys in that movie where Mel Gibson has to pay a ransom - Ransom (1996).

I found another best ever website on the internet. Actually, it' ( Read more... )

When I was in my first year of high school, I was walking along one day when Dane-someoneorother came over to me and said "Hey! You walk with your arms out from your sides, like this. Like you think you're tough. But you're not."*

For a short while I was very self conscious about how I walk, so I made an effort to correct it. Later, I would find ( Read more... )

Whoa, what a month and a half that was. Now I'm financially ruined until at least March, but it was worth it.

Back in 2005 a few friends and I went to a party and took acid for the first, and so far only time. It was mega. I'd love to do it again, but sadly such opportunities are rarely open to me these days. Anyway, that was the whole point of ( Read more... )

Today I moved out of my flat, and had to deal with all the packing/cleaning bullshit that comes with that.

Part of this cleaning is about throwing junk out. Every time I move house, I'm at a loss to decide how to deal with the massive amounts of loose change that builds up.

So today, instead of taking it to the bank or whatnot, I decided to do ( Read more... )

I've been watching a lot of Noam Chomsky's talks and speeches on youtube in the last few days, and while I find him to be highly engrossing and intelligent, I come away with three key issues.

1) Who the fuck names their child 'Noam'?
2) It's actually pretty rad, because Noam is like Noel, in that they are homonyms of Dungeons and Dragons creatures ( ( Read more... )

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I need your help!

My submission to the tee-shirt design website Threadless has just been accepted, and there are 6 more days of voting to be had on it! If I get enough votes, they'll print and sell the design and I win cash and the respect of my peers. I'm permanently in short supply of both, so this is really important*.

You just need to ( Read more... )

I don't really consider myself a 'consumer', but last Monday afternoon I spent 25 minutes walking around Hamleys trying to buy a sock monkey.

For me, sock monkeys are up there with rubber chickens. They are inherently funny and also something I've wanted for a long time, but never been arsed to buy. However, the reason I will probably never buy a ( Read more... )

When I'm on the toilet at home, there is a mirror next to me. So if I forget to bring in something to read, there's not much to do except look at myself. That is, unless I feel like staring at the back of the door, which I don't. I hate doors.

It's mainly because of this hapless leisure time that I recently decided my best feature is my skull. Ever ( Read more... )