Something new
Reading time: < 1 min When was the last time you saw something you’d never seen before?
Month July 2005
She sells…
Reading time: 2 mins “And now for something completely different”. Sex. Well sexual imagery at least, we were sitting chatting a few weekends ago, and ended up putting on some music channel for some background noise as we chatted – younger generation today, must have noise!! – a plug for the channel came on screen and each snippet was…
Blog Etiquette*
Reading time: 3 mins Prompted by this comment thread over at troubled-diva, which started when mike revealed, according to his recent site survey, that “By far the strongest currency in blogging is inter-blog linking, be it on a main post, a linklog post or a blogroll” and that “Comment-whoring doesn’t work!” I, amongst others, was slightly taken aback by…
Five years
Reading time: < 1 min And I still stand by what I said back then: “for such a great idea, you think they would have thought up a less frumpy name“.
Tattoo
Reading time: 2 mins I’ve just finished reading “The Electric Michelangelo” which follows the life of a tattoo artist. More about the book later, but I’d like to pull a quote from the novel: “Tattooing distresses those it does because it’s as generous as a whore on her birthday. It’s human art that you can’t peel back off the…
Steiner
Reading time: < 1 min Steiner schools – my initial reaction was of curmudgeonly old bugger ~ If schools aren’t going to instil a level of discipline and basic education then any new fangled “wishy-washy” approach isn’t going to help ~ and then all of a sudden I was off and pondering my own attitudes towards these things. The Steiner…