Another year, another Simple Minds gig. They do tour a lot, and for this I am glad.

( GIGTASTIC GOODNESS behind the cut )

I suck at posting LJ entries. I shall seek to address this over the Christmas break. I need to chronicle some of my US Holiday for posterity, and posteriors.

In the meantime, if you haven't already seen it, go read my write-up of my time at New York Comic Con.

Oh, and you could also go buy the actual real proper honest-to-goodness ISBN'ed ( Read more... )

Picture it... I'm standing in the bedroom naked (calm yourself, ladies... yes, ok and the guys too) and there's a knock on the door. To make matters even more awkward in terms of answering the door I also had a mouthful of food (look, don't ask, this is just how it happened, kay ( Read more... )

I wrote half this entry once before... but the wonder that is the blue screen of death decided that what I'd written wasn't good enough, so here I go again.

( Cut for size - I'm far too good to you ;) )

In keeping with my habit of writing up gigs I've been to long after the fact, it is now more than two weeks since I went to see Simple Minds in Sherwood Forest ( Read more... )

So, here is where I attempt to write a gig review for a gig that ( Read more... )

Last weekend was the most hectic and travelled I've had for quite some time. And it was great! And this is going to be one of those long posts I stubbornly refuse to put behind a cut. Thrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrpt!

( Sheepishly hidden behind a cut now #peerpressure ;) )

I have two major political bugbears at the moment. One is the out-dated mess that is the First Past The Post electoral system in this country, the other is about the current policy of implementing huge and devastating cuts in public services rather than holding the banks to account for the financial crisis, etc. So, in addition to being a ( Read more... )

Today a FaceBook friend was bemoaning the cost of petrol in Canada. This is not entirely unusual, and I left a little sarcastic surprise at the fact that over there they're paying a whole $1.07 per litre, after it went up 4 cents overnight.

And then someone I don't know said the following:
All because people over seas start riots and burn or blow ( Read more... )