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Fortuna Imperatrix Mundi
You know what were great? Fortune-telling fish. You used to get them in Christmas crackers, and the entire family would coo through the smoke of pissed-up insouciance as it made its way from paw to paw, flipping and flopping like Olga Korbut as the wheels of fortune tilted to and fro. It had a distinct sort of charm to it - it's faux-naïf ( Read more... ) -
Work brings freedom
How time flies when you're having fun. In the past few months I have:
- finished university! I am now thenorthernline B.A. (Hons). Although not officially 'til October, because the powers that be don't see fit to get their finger out 'til then.
- watched almost all of Euro 2008 and enjoyed it a lot more without England there. When you've got the likes of Spain, ( Read more... )
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In Memoriam Ken Livingstone, Recently-Departed Mayor of London
So. Farewell
Then
Ken Livingstone.
Mayor of
London
2000-2008.
You once described
City Hall as a
"Glass testicle".
Now, you have been
Well and truly
Bollocked.
- L.J. Thribb, 22½ -
Horses for courses
Also, a couple of Grand National tips: Slim Pickings (11/1) or Chelsea Harbour (14/1). Both Irish, so don't blame me if they start running backwards. Naturally I'm much too lazy to go and do anything about it, so I'll just sit here and moan when one of them inevitably wins later on. -
Abîme des oiseaux
Birdsong aficionados! (if there are any out there) - or just anyone, really - can you listen to this and tell me what kind of bird it is ( Read more... ) -
Falling slates
What's all this shit about an earthquake? I was in a precarious state of cosmic-tantric meditation throughout the night and I didn't feel a thing. Normally if a microbe dares to turn its head I am irrevocably disturbed, and spend the next three days filled with a raging fury that can only be alleviated by throwing stones at sleeping horses. But ( Read more... )
