So apparently the new American "Transformer" toy is named "Spastic"?

Unfortunately, to the English this is tears-in-your-eyes, can't-breathe funny -- on a par with coming out with a toy named "Retard"...

I've figured out how to flip photos I take on photobooth, which means I can upload photos of some of the circus/carnival/sideshow/misc t-shirts I've made. (When I've got enough printed, gonna sell them at Hebden market; til then might try to sell a few with our car-boot stuff.)


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You know, i have always liked & defended Mac computers, cos they're reliable & don't crash much, but over the last few years I've been liking them less & less ( Read more... )

I just found a quote that sums up a lot about how i think & live:

The only kinds of fights worth fighting are those you are going to lose, because somebody has to fight them and lose and lose and lose until someday, somebody who believes as you do wins. In order for somebody to win an important, major fight 100 years hence, a lot of other people ( Read more... )

The last few times I've tried to use my computer's built-in camera to photograph one of the tees I make, I've had the obvious reversed-text issues... I've got this one the right way round thanks to E&D's bathroom mirror, which is the only reason I'm uploading it -- cos obviously it's not original, just a stencil I made by tracing the logo ( Read more... )

At Tim's party there was a great little ska-punk band (local kids -- one of them was the son of the farmer who owned the land) with an unfortunate name:

"Catch-It Kebabs."

(Say it out loud.)

(And no, none of them had noticed the feline-fecal double meaning.)

So yesterday at the shop I was trying to pick up a single bottle of beer for Crisp... and I was carded ( Read more... )

I went to an a cappella open mic at a pub in Hebden last night & heard both Georgian & shape-note singing for the first time since I left Vermont.

Weird. Weird, weird. Disorienting. But in a good way.

But then Hebden always feels like an alternate-world Brattleboro.

Saw a tiny little kiddie this morning in a "Messi" football shirt. Wonder if his parents chose it as a description...?

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Crisp & me this morning:

Me: "Are the chords to Cardboard Box City easy?"

C: "You shouldn't have any problem with them. Oh, just so you know, there's a weird E7" (or wotever it was)-- (in absence of guitar, ( Read more... )

Hm...i hit pause, so the thing making that FREAKY noise is definitely dawn wildlife, not my itunes.

(...insomnia sucks.)