Shorter posts, links, or thoughts. No schedule, not heavily considered.
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Crash
Tense. Adrenalin pumping. Muscles flexing, pulsing with each wave. Thoughts ramming through my head, cascading across reason, slamming into nothing. Driving now. Hands tight on the wheel, music loud, leery, aggressive. Angry at the van cutting me up, angry at the woman on her cellphone. Angry at the cars not going fast enough. Risking. Not…
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Guardian Blog competition
Call me cheap, call me lacking in moral fibre, call me whatever you like, I’m sure you already do… I have entered the Best British Blog Competition. I did comment on this a couple of days ago, but after careful consideration I have decided that I could really do with £s;1000… 😉 Seriously though, Neil…
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Weekender
Quiet, relaxing weekend. Kicked off on Friday with a swim and a sauna before dropping my sister off at the airport for her holiday. Saturday, coffee at Crema, some more window shopping, then dinner at home followed by ‘Ali’. Will Smith was OK, but the story was a bit.. fast? Seemed to zip past incidents…
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Two pence
This is all a bit redundant now, but in case you hadn’t noticed (and I’m guessing that this isn’t the only blog/journal/funny little site that you read) the Guardian newspaper which, as Vaughan states, is a fine newspaper indeed, is running a competition to find the Best British Blog. I’d post a link to it,…
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Writing Style
Believe it or not, and judging by the casual way I throw punctuation around on here I wouldn’t choose to believe me either, my job requires a high degree of accuracy when it comes to punctuation and grammar et al. I’ve just been going over our internal Writing Style guidelines, and doing a little research.…
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Bert and Ernie
“Hey Bert” “Hey Ernie” The odd couple of Sesame Street. Are they gay? Are they just close friends? As a medium devised to educate children in both basic arithmetic and language, and social awareness, Sesame Street has been the model for many similar shows throughout the world and, typically, if the handling of the introduction…
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So you wanna be a writer?
Taking some previous advice, I didn’t take a mouthful of coffee before reading the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2002 Results. Just as well really, as I’m fed up choking on my coffee. The Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest is an international literary parody contest, the competition honors the memory if not the reputation of Victorian novelist Edward George…
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Middle-classless
We’re not a progressive nation, are we? David Aaronovitch is a regular read of mine, we seem to have a similar outlook on many things, and again he pegs what I want to say much better than I could and with much better research, but you wouldn’t expect much less from a professional journalist, would…
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Monday morning (slight return)
Saturday was spent in IKEA and B&Q and other places of ill repute, spending money we don’t have, except for once we didn’t actually spend it, merely noted down what we wanted to buy and then sat in amazement when we got home when we realised we would need £2k to get what we want.…
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Pop Music
Carey talks about music and I can relate to a lot of what he is saying. One thing I’m eternally glad for is the fact that I live in the UK and our music scene is quite happily contrary on many fronts. My bench mark is usually the “Later with…” Jools Holland series. If they…
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Identity Cards
There has been much said about the current proposals for the introduction of identity cards in the UK. Personally I can see the pluses and the minuses and, in a simple ‘for and against’ argument, the ‘fors’ win. However life, as you are all well aware, is not black and white (and I refuse to…
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Old news?
Is it just me, or is this article from the BBC News team a bit, well, …old: Net users seek first and surf later I thought that this was widely accepted as the primary method of navigation for most internet users (and when I say most I really mean “more experienced”, savvy users). You either…
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Bits and Bobs
Didn’t cover Independence Day yesterday, too busy working on a little project for this site (coming soon, now how many times have I said that!). Also didn’t get round my usual visits, so missed Jennie’s redesign, Meg’s run in with looney cornflake lady (again), Julie’s bizarre dinner at breakfast accident, Tom’s rant against the Guardian…
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WHY?
“If you send this email to 7 people in the next half hour, good things will happen to you” I still shudder in disbelief when I receive an email like this. A few friends (and family!) keep sending this crap on to me, and I’m beginning to get annoyed at the few seconds it takes…
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Late..
Or is it early? Nah it’s late. I can’t sleep. She’s not here lying beside me. I suffer the same way when I am away with work. Spending long nights in an alien bed, watching whatever is on late night telly. I suppose I should be used to it by now but I’m not and…
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Rain, rain, go away…
I’m sitting in the midst of a VERY tidy office. Some shopping this morning, and then home to be inside whilst the heavens opened. Yeuch. Bonus: Didn’t have to cut the grass. Mind you as it now resembles more of a field of buttercups maybe that’s not such a good thing…< But we did get…
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Sleep?
Before I head off to count sheep (I’m not in the slightest bit tired but I’ll try) I just want to mention Tom Cruise. I live with a fan of his (OK scarily obsessed weirdo), and we found ourselves watching Liquid News to catch him at the UK premiere of his new film Minority Report…
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Misc. Wanderings
Leanne is looking very nice these days, Chapter 2 of the naked novel is now online (via blogatelle), the stranger is quoting U2, Pinky has redecorated, and is enjoying the story from Murphy and the Bricks, based on a poem by Pat Cooksey ‘The Sick Note‘, Jennie has found her dream job (and works ‘ubergeek’…
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The Divine Comedy
No, not Dante’s. There are only a few bands of which I own all their material (album wise). Queen, Pearl Jam, Foo Fighters, Radiohead, Sheryl Crow, are the only ones I can remember off to the top of my head.. (possibly Alanis Morrisette and Mary J.Blige). I’m one short for the Divine Comedy (currently listening…
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The Way to Happiness
If you can get through the slightly cloying reasoning, and somewhat overstated and over-simplified reasoning, The Way to Happiness International seems to be on the right track… I think.. “Cultural decay is rampant, and no city or town in the world is immune to the myriad of social problems that arise in the wake of…