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England's Sacred Cow
Oh, brilliant! There's a blood test for vCJD in the works - 71% successful in trials, and never a false positive. (I was worried prion-based diseases would become endemic in the UK long before our doctors found a way to screen for them. At least now they're containable, if nothing else.)
Being a massive hypochondriac, I will of course - of ( Read more... ) -
I'm Old
I can't believe I've been listening to this album for ten years. -
Success!
Swam!
Well, sort of. -
'Admiration is for poets and dairy cows, Bobby.'
Awww, an article on Who Maybe Killed Laura Palmer from the golden age of 'Twin Peaks'. (Will anything I like ever be water-cooler-cool in my lifetime ( Read more... ) -
Bulletin
So long seebrirun; hello bri_himself.
I just felt like a change.
Also, you never know when someone who read my LJ in college might decide to check back in and discover I'm pathetic now. -
And They Lived Heteronormatively Ever After
I've been reading fairytales all morning; now I'm a sour fairytale anti-'shipper. Freud - as usual - Would Have A Field Day ( Read more... ) -
Nobody Can Explain A Dragon
'This reaction of dread is also experienced by many witnesses of water monsters today and has been noted by both Tim Dinsdale and F. W. Holiday when interviewing them. Holiday wrote to Dinsdale: "When people are confronted by this fantastic animal at close quarters they seem to be stunned. There is something strange about Nessie that has nothing ( Read more... ) -
'I've been told I'm highly stalkable.'
Somebody seemed to follow me to work yesterday night - generic young white man; generic young-white-man clothes (light grey hoodie, I think; white T-shirt underneath); tallish, at least compared to me. I'm still not sure if he really had a sinister motive or not ( Read more... )
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