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Tagged by aliasthejester. I always fulfil such obligations!
List seven songs you are into right now, no matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're not any good but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your seven songs. Then tag seven other people to see what they're ( Read more... ) -
I like the sound of him.
Diogenes of Sinope (c. 412BC - 323BC)
(stolen almost wholesale from Wikipedia)
- Many anecdotes of Diogenes refer to his doglike behavior, and his praise of a dog's virtues. It is not known whether Diogenes was insulted with the epithet "doggish" and made a virtue of it, or whether he first took up the dog theme himself. The modern terms cynic and ( Read more... )
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A train ride.
(Last week)The journey begins in earnest at 10am. I arrive at the station and saunter towards the cash machine, frantically trying to synchronise the inner machinery of my composure. The cogs marked 'nonchalance', 'style' and 'faint contempt for others' must be in perfect alignment if I am to avoid betraying the fact that I am a Poor Person, ( Read more... ) -
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thenorthernline, in collaboration with the wonderful YouTube, proudly presents:
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Colonisation.
"We captured this canoe with all the men. One cannibal was wounded by a lance blow and thinking him dead we left him in the sea. Suddenly we saw him begin to swim away; therefore we caught him and with a long hook pulled him aboard where we cut off his head with an axe. We sent the other Cannibals together with the two slaves to Spain. When I was ( Read more... ) -
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There is snow on the roof, and ice in the heart of all men. Apparently today is officially the most depressing day of the year, according to some good-for-nothing lecturer from Slagheap University in the very bowels of South Wales, where the churches collapse overnight and all the livestock suffer from ennui. He should know. Ironically, I'm fairly ( Read more... ) -
Acknowledgements.
Happy ninth day of Christmas, one and all!
A great big sugarcoated thank you to anothercolour and davenotdave for their cards, and the same to everyone else who sent a joint one to me and Emma, namely: hannahness, metafisica, sparkledolly, mekare_enra, halften, and bridgetkate. May the virtuous doctrine of fundamentalist Christianity reign in your childrens' schools for ever and ever, amen.
