Have moved here:

http://biddledown.blogspot.com/

I also share a birthday with Ron Howard, David Niven, Daf Ieauan, and Mark-Paul Gosselaar.

Are you considering immigration to Canada? You may qualify if you belong to one or more of the following professions ( Read more... )

Tonight the Buzzcocks will be playing (at a venue which has undergone so many name changes in the past that I can no longer remember what's it called), and I will leave my house with the express intent of calling out "Homosapien!" between songs.

Frank Zappa, a notorious opponent of music censorship, incured the wrath of Tipper Gore and associates in 1986, when an "explicit lyrics" sticker was slapped on his entirely instrumental Jazz from Hell.

I'm afraid the "indefatigable Galapagos mouse" has gone extinct.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1965:

WALRUS (Odobenus rosmarus), a large marine mammal allied to the seals. Characterized by the prolongation, in both sexes, of the upper canine teeth into tusks, which may reach a length of 2 ft., the adult walrus measures about 10 of 11 ft. and is a heavily-built animal. The head is rounded, the eyes small, ( Read more... )

Today I attended the King County Climate Change Conference with Pete. I'll spare you the details (we left because Pete leaned over and whispered, "THIS IS BORING. WANNA TAKE OFF?"), but I will inform you that we apparently intend to curb global warming with bureaucracy and pussyfooting. Also, Jay Manning, Director of the Washington State ( Read more... )

I share a birthday (different year) with Roger Daltrey, Frederick Chopin and Lytton Strachey.

If you will recall, I recently misplaced a library book and implored you all, via livejournal, to look for it in order that I may save my ass from oppressive fines.

Well. I had also held a faint idea that I'd actually just set it down somewhere in my own home and let it become obscured from vision by all my clutter. This was not the case, for ( Read more... )