Apparently my new interview hair makes me look ‘elfin’. A word more usually used to describe Zoe Wannemaker. Amazing.
So I’m an elf with bleeding fingers and a hacking cough (latest in the long line of viruses to lay siege to my immune system). Tolkien would have had a field day!
February 16, 2009 – 2:31 pm
I’m writing this on lunch break, so can’t go into details too much – not that I probably would anyway on this (rare) occasion….
At the moment I’m definitely going through a Rolling Stones/other rock/blues infused music phase, and this is probably the song I’m listening to/having stuck in my head most often. It seems particularly [...]
October 5, 2008 – 8:37 pm
God I love the Misfits (Glenn Danzig era – they’re just a little bit too kitsch after that, with the notable exception of ‘Saturday Night’). They were a horror punk band of the late seventies who dealt in three chords and lyrical contemplations of splatter horror themes (the title of this post is taken from [...]
October 3, 2008 – 8:31 pm
I’ve done a lot of Palin bashing since she was tapped for the ticket. I was convinced that she was completely out of her depth and that, in desperation at her situation, she resorted to lying, hiding and firing out sound-bites.
All of which will make this seem a little odd: watching the debate last night [...]
September 17, 2008 – 7:18 pm
Just as Agatha is one of my laptops (the one I’m using now, as a matter of fact, and Oscar is another, so Eric is my skateboard (until just half an hour ago, my beloved skateboard. But more on that story in a moment.) I’m not sure where my propensity to name my possessions comes [...]
September 16, 2008 – 8:04 pm
Wow. Not only am I a day late on this, I’m also totally unqualified to write about it. I was going to do what normal bloggers and armchair economists do in this case: read news sites and other blogs, cherry pick the stuff that they agree with (which in my case is anything with the [...]
September 16, 2008 – 6:07 pm
I’ve just come across satirical blog http://liberalsmustdie.com. Normally I’m all about the trolling and baiting right-wing nutjobs, but this just isn’t working for me.
For starters, it’s not actually that funny. At least not by the time you’ve read the exact same jokes in three consecutive posts. Rednecks are big fans of God, you say? Some [...]
September 14, 2008 – 2:40 pm
Just seen this: http://roissy.wordpress.com/2008/09/13/biden-will-step-down/
Comedy.
September 13, 2008 – 1:28 am
Just a quick one, still tired out from the exertions of writing so much earlier…
When I’m at home with little or nothing to do I find myself staying up late, reading and watching the teevee. This is a bad idea, and ought to stop. Why’s that? Well I tend to watch wrestling first off, which [...]
August 19, 2008 – 12:25 am
For the uninitiated, Agatha is one of my laptops (younger sister of Oscar). She’s an Advent 4211, running a dual-boot system of Windows XP (which came preinstalled) and Ubuntu (which I installed using Wubi, as Ags didn’t come with an optical drive). I’ve not gone all the way and put Ubuntu on its own partition, [...]
