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Depression, or: The screaming toddler in my brain
I wrote this email to my boyfriend, Michael, a couple of weeks ago. I had been really not very mentally well the day before, when he had come over to see me, and despite my best efforts to contain it, I went from being irritable to crying to weird disturbed sleep and nightmares. He'd not seen me like that before and had been worried and upset by it ( Read more... ) -
Is this the most beautiful video in the world?
You can watch this video on www.livejournal.com
HASHIMA, Japan, 2002 documentary version from Thomas Nordanstad on Vimeo.
I've been catching up with missed entries in abandonedplaces and this video is just fantastic. Also found this picture:
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From Charlie Chaplin's 'The Great Dictator'
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not my business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone if possible - Jew, Gentile - black man - white ( Read more... ) -
If you thought things had changed, friend you'd better think again...
So, yesterday's march, the Youth Fight for Jobs march/Youth March for Jobs, was a roaring success, if we're going on the basis that some of us were roaring, and it was a success because we didn't end up throwing computer monitors through bank windows whilst a wall of media kept the other protestors from joining in ( Read more... ) -
Yes, that's right, the SON OF GOD is apparently a big racist.
So, er, the BNP are about to launch a campaign of billboard adverts claiming that JESUS H CHRIST, the son of the Christian God....apparently....would have supported the BNP if he were alive today ( Read more... ) -
Linkage etc
Every so often, there's a spate of stuff that I want to share with t'internets. Some of the stuff....
1) News story about the son of Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes killing himself. Raises the question of what it is precisely about Ted Hughes that is suicide-inducing to live with. The gloomy temperament of Eeyore combined with the delivery of Chris ( Read more... ) -
Dammit, I've done it again.
Say what you will, I am a fool. Turning up to work wearing red from top to toe (including wings and sparkly shoes) for Comic Relief is a mistake, it seems. One of these days Still, mippy's old MP3 player's just done the trick in making me feel better....
'All My Little Words' by Magnetic Fields - possibly my new favourite song..
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I don't suffer from muffinsanity, I enjoy it, in 8 easy steps...
So, raspberry, white chocolate, and lemon muffin recipe, as requested by filthgrinder
Makes 12 if you're using deep muffin cups, but 24 if you're using fairy cake cases.
Ingredients
300g self-raising flour
1 tsp baking powder
ETA: 80g butterZest of 1 lemon ( Read more... )
