Reading books is cool as you'll learn stuff that you just wouldn't come across otherwise. Today I was suitably gobsmacked when I read that in 1978 police in the US dropped a bomb from a helicopter onto a house that contained a group of people (called MOVE) who preached a back-to-nature lifestyle. I thought what a load of poo... the police can be ( Read more... )

I did this http://friend-of-tofu.livejournal.com/37793.html this evening. It was a jolly good evening indeed. My only regret is a sever lack of judgement that lead to my death in a game of werewolf. It was a tense moment, down to three people one of whom was a werewolf. Person one ( Read more... )

Phew!

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I have a Dresden Dolls ticket somewhere, but I can't remember where. I hope I can find it! Also I'm climate marching tomorrow (sat), if anyone is joining in too, gimme a ring I'll be there from 1ish.

Sleeeep...

Went lone protesting with alextiefling yesterday. Was a super evening, lots of humour and some seriousness too. Get this, one person I talked too had trouble getting her protest authorised. Initially it was banned, but she kicked up a fuss... so why was her protest almost quashed? Well, one of the words on her placard, "wasn't a real word"! She challenged the ( Read more... )

Speed Update, whooooosh....

Friday:
Went to see Peaches with friend_of_tofu. Woooow, Peaches rocks, it's offical. I need to purchase ear plugs tho, my ears were throughly broken by the guest band... maybe I'm getting old, but talk about a wall of sound... I think they used a wall of jumo jet engines... my ears are still making, "OOooooOOOoooOOOooOOOo" sounds. ( Read more... )

I nearly passed out when I saw Jo Wilding was doing a book reading/signing/talk just up the road from where I work. Of course I went, madly dashing from a disaster of a day at work. The event was at one of the rapidly disappearing radical book shops in London, Hausmans. There were about 25 - 30 people there and some yummy middle-eastern food was ( Read more... )

Went to see George Monbiot and friends last night, it was a gathering about climate change. It was all very interesting, and if the maths are correct, we're all doomed. To cut a long story short, they said in the west we need to cut carbon emissions by 90% asap. The worstist polluter of all is aircraft and cutting flights by 90% would help a lot. ( Read more... )

Talk this Wednesday and protest on 4th Nov.

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Speed update!

Friday: Due to illness (there does seem to be a lot around at the moment) I never made it to Critial Mass. But, this meant I could spend longer at friend_of_tofu's pre-birthday meal drinks gathering, yay! It was very ace, with vegan cake and real-life singing. Unfortunately I did leave fairly early due to aforementioned illness. I think illness ( Read more... )