I spent almost two hours online this morning trying to buy tickets for one of U2's midsummer concerts. Success in the end, in the face of sites falling over, connections timing out and constantly engaged phone lines. The tickets weren't even for me because the strange thing is, I don't like them very muchI thought I was a weirdo to think this way, ( Read more... )

I'm away from lj for a couple of days and come back to discover that everybody's doing a movie meme. So, original as ever, I bleat and follow the herd. (Apologies if anyone's said/posted anything I should have commented on and didn't.)

Oh, and GIP! By beeej, who kindly shared it. I love evil!Duncan ( Read more... )

So, jadis31 told me recently that I ought to put my time to good use by writing new fic. Then the other day elistaire suggested a HL drabble challenge for New Year. Amazingly, my subconscious wanted to join in, and eventually I had a drabble finished ( Read more... )

As it's already the 22nd here and I think you may be heading off today--

Happy birthday, miraminx!!

You have the midwinter birthday I always wanted. And how cool is a birthday shared with Will Stanton and Duncan MacLeod?

Hope you can make the time to enjoy both your day and Christmas. A Thing will be waiting for you when you get back.

Mwaahh!!

¡¡Happy Birthday, Ni!!

I hope everything you wish for comes your way in the next year -- you deserve the best (remember that!)

*Huge hugs*

A quick note for Manics fans: they're featured on BBC Radio 6 this week. Details and all links here. Is it just me, or does Nicky look a bit less sveltely boyish and a bit more podgy in these pictures ( Read more... )

This is a quick note to let everyone know that because of some new RL commitments, I won't be able to keep up with lj as much as I may have done previously. This doesn't mean I won't be reading posts and fic or admiring art - just that I'll only be able to check in every couple of days and probably won't have time to comment ( Read more... )

I had decided yesterday that there was no point in yet another election post, and certainly not from me, who had neither the inclination nor the energy to describe what I was feeling.

However (didn't you just know I was going to say that?), I came across this article in the Guardian this morning which summed up many non-Americans' experiences so ( Read more... )

Happy birthday, Jo!!!

I hope you have a wonderful day, and a wonderful year.

Mwah!

Love and fags
Me xx

I was so sorry to hear that John Peel has died.

(Details here.)It would be difficult to overemphasise his influence on popular music culture in Britain, and how important his show was in getting alternative music genres like punk and reggae an airing on national radio and thereby into the mainstream ( Read more... )