My thanks to strangepixel !  I had to relink to this spread of metal goodness just to make sure that sea_cucumber  saw it......

Just wanted to post to note the sad passing of one of the all time great guitarists, and one of my favourite musicians ever. It has been a while since I had heard anything new by Jeff Healey, and I found out from a fellow enthusiast that he had died back in March after a fight against cancer. I had the good fortune to see him live a few years back ( Read more... )

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Had an appointment with the renowned John Treherne at Skin Creations this afternoon. I am now a little sore, quite adrenalinized, and very happy. At present I can't find an easy way of linking a bigger picture, as I don't have photo bucket etc. For those who wish to see, there are a couple of piccies on Facebook. The shading is going to take a few ( Read more... )

The plural of Platypus is not Platypi.
It could well be Platypodes.

Now back to our previous programming.......

(This LJ entry brought to you by the power of Martini.)

Somehow I can't seem to get my head around the banning of  what must be one of the simplest, yet most useful single invention that we Hominids have ever come up with. Get something sharp, attach a handle. Australopithicines were making knives 2.5 million years ago, and now we want to enforce making the carrying of one a criminal offence?
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Today I bought Mackerel and Oysters. The mackerel was delicious ( Read more... )

It is widely accepted that modern written English is suffering from a lack of punctuation. Now, don’t get me wrong, I’m not great at this stuff. Like most people, I hesitate before I use a semicolon. (I still use them, rightly or wrongly, but I do hesitate.) However, punctuation exists for a very good reason, and it’s a reason I understand. It ( Read more... )

We've just been discussing our native tongue again.

If you can go to a commune to communicate with a communicant,

can you go to a forne to fornicate with a fornicant?

Wow.

Now does this mean we're enjoying Cabernet Sauvignon more at the moment because we like "powerful and heavy" music, or, as appreciators of such music, are we predisposed to like Cabernet Sauvignon?