Baxter at Copenhagen

  • December 22, 2009 11:45 am

the real reason the talks derailed:

(I’m not happy with this Baxter, not at all, but it’s been such a while since I grappled with him that I thought it better to bodge one out and springboard off its mediocrity back up into the soaring heights of The Fish than fuss forever with an unhappy cartoon.…

This is my life now

  • December 4, 2009 1:16 pm

although my olives are less green and my hands are more purple.

Instructions for Bruce

  • December 4, 2009 1:12 pm

Hello Bruce. Here is how to get here:
Head out of Oleiros towards Serta, but after only a few hundred metres turn RIGHT up the hill towards Alvaro.
4km up the hill you turn LEFT at the old resin factory (with the chimney) towards Madeira. The road continues climbing towards the wind turbines.
After a few kilometres there…

A Nobel Prize I wasn’t previously aware existed:

  • October 10, 2009 4:53 pm

At the other end of the spectrum, Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid told the Reuters news agency the award was ridiculous. “The Nobel prize for peace? Obama should have won the ‘Nobel Prize for Escalating Violence and Killing Civilians’,” he said.

I’m scanning the news, but I don’t think the Nobel Prize for Escalating Violence and Killing…

Obama on the Recession

  • August 1, 2009 8:04 am

Interesting use of tenses here from the President:
“As I’ve said before, it took us many more months to fully dig ourselves out of a recession that we now know was even deeper than anyone thought. But I will continue to work every single day and take every step that’s necessary to make sure that happens.”
In…

English again

  • July 9, 2009 7:48 pm

Maintaining then, the can’ ; t my LOGON is remembered, I task it’ ; a s, case over, something want, yes this l’ are you must you. The Portugueses thus over a long time span that they speak are quest’ Nearly can’ ; summer; t they are remembered, over since my maternal language is spoken…

Joe the Whapsnatcher (part 2)

  • May 5, 2009 2:46 pm

The headline reads: Joe The Plumber Slurs Gay People: I Would Never Let “Queers” Near My Children.
Never. Obviously. He’s not an idiot. He knows how that stuff can spread.
It’s an interview with ‘Christianity Today’ (an oxymoron?), in which he says: “You know, God is pretty explicit in what we’re supposed to do–what man and woman…

Finally…

  • April 16, 2009 11:48 am

Things of perfect joy #372

  • March 24, 2009 10:19 pm

Do you wanna go? Do you wanna go?
Yes.
My hair is getting this way. My mandolin playing is lagging.
Give me time.
MAMA’S IN THE KITCHEN, BAKING UP A PIE!
The joy I get from Rory Gallagher grows by the year.
Like my hair.

Countdown to the Golden Cockle

  • March 12, 2009 9:04 am

The red carpets are being hosed down, tuxedos are being rinsed, and the cockles have already arrived:

Soon enough we shall see their transformation into film’s greatest prize…