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I have actually done so much travelling since a kind...

sasharappaport: One in five think Cheney is worst VP in U.S....

I do not recall

I just received a most preposterous email, followed by an email recall message. People still use...

Ross: When do you leave for Gambia?
Jean: THE Gambia.
Ross: Of course. You wouldn't go to just any Gambia.

“It is with regret that we inform you that the Baltimore...”
— Baltimore Opera Company I...

Media Monkey: Silent right: Sunday Telegraph...

noraleah: “The University of Chicago is joining a nationwide trend of allowing male and female...

“Every “Little Book of Calm” includes them, along with...”
— Angels in the modern world |...

One and a half sleeps, because I have to leave for the...

Do not let a shifty man with a cigarette and a...

Chappy Chanukah

Holiday marked by eating deep-fried foods in the name of celebrating freedom = excellent.

When it comes to Christmas, I am kind of an epic Scrooge....

We get increasingly frustrated without...

Bex: I am going to rip them a new one.
Jude: I don't even know what that means, but it doesn't sound very fucking nice!

The year in review: 'How should we rate 2008?...

Excellent book-writing tip #10: GET A...

Hey! Remember my excellent book-writing tips? I bet you thought they were done, but nooooo, because...

The maintenance guys are here

Maintaining stuff in our rapidly-disintegrating flat. I suspect that I should be offering them a cup...

“Ultimately, for all of the hue and cry over the lawless...”
— NAKED SOULS | SUSO I wrote...

…and following the visit to the horses it seemed a...

Though I have lived here for over five years, I am still...

sasharappaport: Article 31: The Right to Water: Everyone...

“Some cool news recently— Scott Esposito over at...”
— Maitresse: found in...

My visit to the passport office, by Jean

OK, I have had some complaints that I am not writing enough, which are possibly valid, but in my...

“I was kind of half cringing the whole time, I didn’t know...”
— My friend’s new love interest...

I wrote some book reviews...

Roar of the Butterflies by Reginald Hill What Happened? by Hugh Pym and Nick Kochan Favourite...

Today I learned an important life...

While budgeting for your BIG BAG OF SUPER CHEAP AWESOME Christmas trip to The Gambia, it is...

“It’s raw, it’s spare, it has a strong punk aesthetic, and it...”
— THE BRUTAL ARTS | SUSO By me.

iloveadverbs: Moot is an auto-antonym, meaning that it has...

URBAN INNIT. (And then we went to Columbia Road Market and...

Telegraph: Men 'lie about books they have...

On the mend...

My friend Brie, an unwilling but plucky expert on food poisoning, emailed me these helpful hints...

“Thrift is of course the latest middle-class indulgence;...”
— Alex Renton: Humbug to a...

As I am still so ill (food poisoning! Hideous! I’m...

(via sasharappaport) Epic Trek Across London Takes Photo Every 8 Steps This is the coolest.

“I love underwhelming theme parks. Slick, showy ones with...”
— Charlie Brooker on the closure...

Sometimes I think, wouldn’t it be nice to take a sick day? When I could just lounge in bed and...

Sebastian found this special product in a pharmacy in...

(via gauntlet:Backwards steps for women: the poll) This...

Melon Galia - En Moin d’une Seconde You know that feeling? That liminal state, when you are...

BBC NEWS | Americas | Canada halts parliament...

I am on the train to Edinburgh this morning. I’m exhausted, because I had to get up at half...

“Thus, you get the common trope of “I am ever so sorry...”
— The fine art of literary...

Something is rotten in Niskayuna

In the autumn of our senior year of high school, my friend Pennie and I briefly had the job of...