You don't have to read this, but if you do, you're awesome:

Not until 1980 were we able to read in the Sunday Times how Stalin's son, Yakov, died. Captured by the Germans during the Second World War, he was placed in a camp together with a group of British officers. They shared a latrine. Stalin's son habitually left a foul mess. The British ( Read more... )

The Life Pursuit by Belle & Sebastian makes me happier than most people I know.
On that note, the Scissor Sisters album makes me want to be a cross-dressing gay man more than most people I know. Most.