Anything's better than the boring goings-on of Parliament. Apparently, there's a heat wave heading our way. You're damn right, I'll be in the garden yelling my defiance at the sun, fist shaking in impotent rage. Come on! Do your worst!

I haven't been sleeping well lately. I should go to bed. I think that's what I shall do.

Get your head down.

I particularly liked this quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne, on the wondrous possibilities laid out each morning, which sums up my own sentiments rather well:

"You speculate on the luxury of wearing out a whole existence in bed, like an oyster in its shell, content with the sluggish ecstasy of inaction."

( I'm not militant, honest. )

( Reading? Music? Hookers? )

This was taken in the 1940s. Where was it?

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Today, I heard that there were rumblings across the pond about reducing the drinking age to 18. I will watch this develop with keen interest. Especially when so many areas are "dry" and having fun is outlawed in many central states. Frankly, I can't imagine not being able to nip down to the bar of an evening when I was at college. The whole furtive ( Read more... )

Zak and Al and the rain man.

Since realising what motivates their readership, BBC News have begun combining elements to get people's attention.

Blowjobs and cancer.