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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
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12:14 am - "Get the crystal! Get the crystal!"
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| Monday, May 12th, 2008
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10:03 pm
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| Sunday, May 11th, 2008
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10:59 pm - Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought Brisingr (Inheritance Cycle)
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![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) gideondefoe's latest novel, The Pirates! In An Adventure With Napoleon is out now. In the shops! It's very good. It's more like an episode of Ever Decreasing Circles than you might expect from a book about a meeting between bloodthirsty pirates and one of history's greatest military commanders, but that's no bad thing.
The Pirates! In An Adventure With Napoleon completes gideondefoe's maritime quartet. Look out for the prelude to a 23-book Shamans of the Rainforest cycle in Spring 2012.
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12:59 pm
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A tiny spider just landed in my Cheerios. If it had sploshed through the middle of one of the multigrain hoops I'd have put down my spoon and applauded, but as it was it just floated there in a broad expanse of milk, so I ate around it.
Can spiders get rigor mortis?
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| Thursday, May 8th, 2008
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9:07 pm
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Why does Sheffield have about a million fountains, but not a single statue of Phil Oakey? I mean, if they really needed to, they could have rendered his fringe out of a water feature.
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| Sunday, May 4th, 2008
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10:59 pm
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Last night, I dreamed I had read nearly all of Tristram Shandy, and it had been quite easy; it turned out it was basically a novelisation of Casualty. So imagine my horror on waking to find that actually, I'd read precisely seven pages of Tristram Shandy, and that it is set about two hundred years before the invention of defibrilators.
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| Saturday, May 3rd, 2008
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7:31 pm
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| Friday, May 2nd, 2008
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12:05 am - I went into town and I saw...
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| Wednesday, April 30th, 2008
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11:28 pm - Approved by Dr. Entomology
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| Monday, April 28th, 2008
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11:44 pm - Just imagine...
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...if you could only form romantic attachments to women wearing masks made of giant hairy Gnasher badges with moving eyes:
If you have been affected by any of the issues in this post, call 01382 223 131 for professional help and support.
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| Sunday, April 27th, 2008
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5:12 pm
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Just in case you were in any doubt about the noble traditions of our ruling classes, please be reassured by this full-page ad in The House Magazine:
I especially like the shotgun ammo. No doubt one can shoot serfs in the face with much greater accuracy after a gallon of neat Laphroaig.
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| Wednesday, April 23rd, 2008
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11:02 pm
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I've got some really gigantic bananas at the moment. They are definitely the same brand King Kong gets.
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10:25 pm
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Crussh's menu has a 'bee pollen booster'. Should I have got one? I'm getting low on pollen of any kind, let alone pollen made from bees. I hope it's served in tiny cups which you strap to your knees and elbows.
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| Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008
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12:11 am
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I stumbled upon the World Premiere of Three and Out and was surprised to find just how many people were mental to see what Mackenzie Crook would be wearing:
In fact there was such a crowd I didn't see what he was wearing myself, but I can supply an artist's impression:
Let's compare and contrast with the next issue of Heat.
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| Sunday, April 20th, 2008
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11:07 pm - Time wasted messing about with light box not at all redeemed by weak pun
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drummygirl has started washing her clothes with those new ecoballs because she cares about The Environment more than she cares about smelling like a monkey. Ecoballs look like this:
I'm not sure about them yet. I think I'll just use them on my grays.
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| Thursday, April 17th, 2008
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1:23 am - Internetsdairy's Secret Vacation
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For my birthday, drummygirl very kindly took me on a surprise trip to Berlin! This was very kind of her, although I note she came too and it's nowhere near her birthday. What is up with that?
We saw - and indeed went right up - the Fernsehturm, a construction possibly even more ubiquitous and evil than the Post Office Tower. We had delicious cocktails in its cocktail bar. They seemed innocent enough, but I'm worried we may have been chemically recruited as sleeper agents for former Stasi leader Erich Mielke's brain, which I'm fairly sure forms, in its perspex jar, the hub of the revolving restaurant. Which was CLOSED.
We also ate some classy milk-fried chicken, to make gideondefoe jealous, and looked at some Important History about which I will not make jokes. And we went to the zoo! Which was great, even if we couldn't find the cage where Kraftwerk tickle Knut the polar bear cub with the Bismark Bratwurst.
There are (80!) photos here if you like. There are quite a few abstractish-looking ones, for which I apologise (there is a lot of geometry in Berlin), but the majority are of creatures in the zoo.
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| Wednesday, April 16th, 2008
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8:45 pm
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drummygirl thinks the people in the house opposite are either doctors or prostitutes. This assumption is based on the fact that she once saw one of them come back in the middle of the day and then close the curtains, so, you know, you can follow her logic.
It would be good to be able to narrow it down to one or the other, though. Today there came a tantalising chance - the front door was open and drummygirl could see into their kitchen. But there were neither stethoscopes nor knickers hanging off the cooker knobs, so I guess we'll never know.
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6:51 pm
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In a coffee shop today, I saw a man using his laptop to Photoshop the watermark off of a clip art cartoon rhinoceros.
Should I have made a citizen's arrest?
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| Tuesday, April 8th, 2008
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11:46 pm
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2:52 pm
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gideondefoe has helpfully pointed out that I'm technically old enough to have been on the last manned moon mission to the moon.
After further discussion, we realised I'd have been too young, aged seven months, to actually remember my lunar trip. And the spooky thing is, I don't have any memory of such an expedition!
QED: I was the first baby on the moon! You'd think I'd be more famous, really, but remember the viewing public quickly grew bored with Nasa's moon antics and watched Sanford and Son instead, so I guess it's no surprise that not even I have heard of my achievement.
I'm not sure what function I performed on my trip, though I note from Wikipedia that Apollo 17 was the only mission to include a professional geologist so I guess that was probably it.
I do hope I remembered to leave behind a nappy on a flagpole.
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