Unintelligent Design

Two quotes from Mr MacKenzie:

"The Sun is very, very hostile to David Davis because of his 28 day stance and The Sun has always been very up for 42 days and perhaps even 420 days."

and

 "Most of us are not bad guys, we have nothing to fear."

No further comment .

Brown 1, Human Rights 0.

There are days when I'm quite grateful for the House of Lords. This may be one of them.

Just to confirm - I now have a charger and a working mobile phone again. :-)

Hilary Clinton's about to make a speech about her future - if you're in the UK (and actually care about US politics) then you can see it on the BBC News website or the Digital BBC News channel, and possibly in a few other places...

Edit #1: Of course, I didn't realise that she'd then keep the cameras (and audience) waiting for 45 minutes... :)

May's random music post didn't happen - or possibly it just got hijacked by Dustin the Eurovision turkey - but here we are again...

Tinariwen

(link goes to their MySpace page, with streaming music from their last album, Aman Imam)

Possibly Mali's most famous band. Electric guitars and 'desert blues', beloved of the world music press.

And I'd have to agree, as I really like Tinariwen - I've got a couple of albums (including this one) and I saw them play Warwick Arts Centre a year or two back.

There's something about the guitar work and the rhythm that just grabs my attention and won't let go - Cler Achel is probably the best example of this out of the MySpace tracks, although the vocals aren't as strong as some of their other songs. But that's just my opinion.

...so what do you think...?

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Dizzee Rascal

I could claim that I don't do soppy.  But some of you wouldn't believe that. You'd be right.

However, I don't tend to get soppy on LJ. This post may be an exception.

Elaine and I celebrate a year together today. It's been a pretty wonderful year.

I'll stop the soppiness again at this point, if only because Elaine will mock me if I don't. But I'm sitting here smiling a slightly dazed smile right now, and I don't think that's going away anytime soon. :)

Life is good.

From Lying in The Gutters -

"I understand that Neil Gaiman has been approached to write for the popular TV series "Doctor Who," for broadcast in 2010."

If true, full marks to Steven Moffat for making the offer.  If Rob Shearman's coming back too... well, I won't be complaining about that, either. Dalek is still the best Dalek story that the new series has managed so far.

(If you don't get the context for "pleading the Francis", btw, it's a reference to House of Cards - which is very definitely worth watching...)

This evening I have mostly been phoning people and watching The Supersizers Go... Restoration with Elaine and jambon_gris. Both of them commented that it was strangely reminiscent of Whitby.

Booze, more booze, elaborate costumes and a lack of vegetables. Y'know, they may have a point.

It's also very watchable and quite funny.

[On a different note, I'm mildly annoyed that iPlayer doesn't seem to include Greek - I'm not entirely surprised, as it doesn't include many of the US imports (although it does have Mad Men), but I was a little bit curious about it and wanted to see an episode or two...]

...when not much went according to plan.

I had to grab an emergency taxi to work, due to lack of buses. I paid it with the note and change that was loose in my pocket - then noticed that I'd forgotten my wallet (...and had just spent almost all my cash...). That wasn't so good.

I also managed to take a nice, relaxing bath when I finally got home... then grabbed the Rose and Geranium deep soak bath foam when I thought I was grabbing the Tea Tree & Mint shampoo. I'm really not sure how that happened (ok, so I wasn't wearing my glasses... but they're completely different colours). I'm not exactly sure what effect this is likely to have on my hair, but it was very bubbly for a few seconds. I'm not sure I actually want bubbly hair... :)

A little behind the times, mostly because I've been skimming LJ recently and haven't always been following links...

My Johari Window.

I'll be interested to see how any responses compare to my own picture.