Guilty Pleasures of Literary Greats
Via Boing Boing. Groucho’s obsession with Shakespeare and Nabokov’s concerns over (the American) Dennis the Menace’s bastardy cracked me right up. powered by performancing firefox
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Amazing Musical Hoax
“Last week, a critic at the Gramophone magazine got surprise when he put a Hatto recording of Lizt’s 12 Transcendental Studies into his computer. The iTunes player identified the disc as being recorded by another pianist, Lászlo Simon. He dug out the Simon album and found it sounded exactly the same as the Hatto one.
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Pancake Day
Ugh. Remind me never to eat part-cooked, part-burnt, but definitely inedible batter again. Even with lemon juice and salt. It just smelt so tasty!
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New Layout
Thought I’d update the layout on this thing, after five years. Whaddya think?
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Shit on a Stick
It is now 1 a.m. Last night at eight of the clock I got back from working late at the office, to find my brother dave, now 25, lying in bed very ill. Putting the kettle on for some soup, I immediately scraped together some cash to get him some drugs, and went back out
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Help Wonted
Right. Looks like I’ll need a friend with a driving license to help me move at least once on the 18th March. Any volunteers? powered by performancing firefox
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The Mysterious Geographic Explorations of Jasper Morello 1-3
http://youtube.com/v/E9nVQ9XBu-w Absolutely gorgeous cut-out animation.
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The Marxist Party
The rules were simple. A party, David’s birthday, where you’re obliged to come as Groucho Marx, or Karl Marx if you’d never heard of Groucho (Phyllis Stein’s, the lot of you.) These three won easily though with their tribute to the Duck Soup mirror scene, here available by the miracle of You Tube. Huzzah! http://youtube.com/v/vy3FnA3mJHE
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Relevant To The Centre's Holding.
The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst
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Because UV is a Hairy-Legged Girl's Best Friend
Ultraviolet Light Is Key to Spider Mating And in jungles all over the world, the coming of the black lights symbolises a time for… love. Female spiders cease munching on their tiny wannabe beloveds and instead stare longingly into their remaining eyes. Jungle shrieks and squawks segue into groaning saxes and pumping rhythms, Barry White