On Saturday I tuned into HBO and watched No Reservations, the Catherine-Zeta Jones movie where she tries to sound American but can't.Toddler Mogul looked up from his toys, looked at the scene where Catherine and her co-worker chef are about to kiss and said, "That's her daddy."...
jane spotted this nativity in a shop window. the cow looked very angry, but it's only once i got home and looked at the photo that i realised the wise men look a bit bonkers too
it looks even better seen in it's wider context with the santa and buddha
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Lois Preira, of Ullswater Road, Melton, was enjoying a cookie and a cup of tea when she noticed a face in the melted chocolate on the plate.She said: "I was enjoying the cookie and when I picked it up I saw a face. When I looked at, I immediately thought that's definitely the face of Jesus. It looked just like the Turin Shroud. I felt I had to keep the plate because nobody would believe me otherwise."And Photographer Jim Harrison was taken aback when he snapped the image.He said: "I couldn't see anything and didn't believe a word of it until I had taken the picture. But when I looked at the photograph on the camera, there it was, plain as...
Sketched from Eros and GraceI love Mia's eyes. I think I saw a girl who looked like her yesterday, she gave me a smile, but I looked down, so...
Having watched the US Presidential Debate on TV yesterday (despite already having watched the highlights and realising nothing that interesting happened) I have to concur with received opinion that John McCain needed a big performance and didn't get it. Obama looked far more comfortable with the audience, the questions and the concept, whereas John McCain looked lost as he wondered in, looked incredibly awkward as he perched on his Boyzone crooners' high-chair and didn't convince that he knew what he was talking about.It may be harsh to suggest that McCain came across as a rambling old man who is stumbling to defeat, but...well, he did.However far more un-nerving was McCain's insistence to keep saying "Oh yes, my friend" at the end of every other sentence. It is the equivalent of the...
There’s been a small ignition problem with my car, so yesterday I thought I’d better get it looked at it at my local garage.
As I fretted over how much the final bill would hurt my purse, I noticed a very young scantily clad woman wiggle into the reception area.
Wondering which pole-dancing shop was missing its’ entire summer clothes collection, I heard her ask a mechanic if she could buy a seven-hundred-ten knob.
His face looked blank as he asked, ‘What’s a seven-hundred-ten knob?’
The woman squeeked, ‘You know, the little piece in the middle of the engine? I’ve lost it and need a new one.’
She went on to say that she didn’t know exactly what it was, but this piece had always been there.
The bemused mechanic gave her a piece of paper and a pen and...
Uncle Florian walked up the hill. He carried yesterday’s newspaper and a cane. When he reached the uppermost slope of green grass he looked out over London and mopped his brow. He sat down and spent some time reading the old news. When he had finished he folded the newspaper into the size of a pillow and he laid his head upon it. He dozed off, laying flat on the ground, on his back, in his suit, clutching the handle of his cane, so that he looked like he might still be walking, but in a different way, more peculiar, as if the hill was honoured by Uncle Florian and bowed its head to...
Here's a bit more of that Blood Run story.
Blood Run 2
Eye Hawks were circling above so they kept to the shadows, scrambling from one doorway to another. Hiding in shadows. The older girl holding her younger brothers hand. And in their ears they could hear the gentle pit pat of trailing feet and the frightening whirr just above them.
Today the girl had grown up. It came upon her the night before, bold as brass, sat in the room with her as she slept and made itself known when she woke. She pulled her little brother along, his little self trailing behind desperate to keep up. They didn't talk.
The windows at ground level were blank some shuttered and some with blinds down. As was the way in the early hours. And as she drove them on she could see her parents helplessly looking...
Today we look at the rest of the Mecha and "boys toys" from the weekends Chara Hobby - and does this Volks Gurren look stunning or what?
The first Mecha machines that I came in contact with were the Valkyrie from the original Macross film and loved the design and the way they transformed from jet > gerwalk > battroid.
I only started to come into contact with Gundam when I first visited Japan. I wasn't a fan of the mobile suits back then - I really disliked the design of the feet and thought the "horns" on the head looked odd too. I also didn't understand how folks could like Gundam so much because it didn't transform into anything ^^;
Was out shopping one day and came across the GFF GP01 and thought that it looked extremely cool. I looked for the anime it was in and watched all...
silent world is a bonkers aquarium in tenby and well worth a visit
it's in a funny little old church and despite its small size contains loads of slightly worn looking exhibits. actually, it was only the tanks which looked aged. the animals looked fine.
kezia took the photo above
they also had some lizards and excellent signage
and in the corner there was an abandoned bin bag full of old snake skins
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So what have I been doing with myself the last few weeks while I've been away? So here is an answer to those of you who were wondering (and apologies for repeating what has already appeared in private correspondence).Apart from working a lot, listening obsessively to the music of Ronnie Lane, going on holiday and spending far too much time on a waterslide, travelling to Paris to see Tom Waits as part of a stag night celebration and being Best Man for my best friend, I've been doing nothing very much. To go back to that Best Man business for a moment. I arrived at B's house on the Wednesday evening. House in chaos. We're due on the Eurostar the following morning. Due back on the Friday morning. Wedding on the Saturday. He greets me at the door and says "You don't know anything about...
I was still awake at 3:30am, wanted to sleep but couldn’t, as I looked out of the curtain I saw the sky and it looked to me as if it was a piece of velvet with the pile worn away.
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Just for a fraction of a heartbeat it looked as though Hold the Front Page had quite a scoop. OK, the details looked iffy, but reading the headline something leapt out at me:
"Journalist Gordon Brown dies aged 71".
Ah well. My condolences to the family of the original Gordon Brown, who sounds as though he was a decent...
Carlo answered the phone on the third ring, "Pronto?""Ciao Carlo, its Giuseppe. I was just calling to see how Nicki is?"Carlo looked at me. I was sitting cross-legged on a chair in front of my laptop, absently eating frittata while reading through a document that had finally arrived after a long wait."She's fine..why?" Carlo replied after looking me up and down, checking for anything suspicious."Oh, good," said Giuseppe with a sigh of relief, "I heard about her scooter accident last night and was worried.""Accident?" Carlo looked at me again, "we didnt go out last night. Nicki's fine, she had no accident, it must have been someone else.""Oh, I had heard it was Nicki. OK, well I'm glad she's fine."Carlo hung up and looked at me again. "Apparantly you had a bike accident late last...
Well this is how our cottage garden looked this morning at 8am and below is how it looked this evening at 5pm. Can you see we found the original flag stone floor of the Byre (a building for animals) that used to be attached to the cottage?An archaeologist has been present all day, painstakingly uncovering every flag stone. We found bottles, coins, old clay pipe fragments, and all sorts of things that I will show you another day when I have rid them of all the crap that's stuck to them.We disturbed a mother mouse and her baby which were living in the garden wall and I actually felt a bit sorry for them as they looked so frightened when they ran off. Had they run over my foot it would have been another story though.All in all a fascinating day and I will report on the coming weeks progress...
Here is my thinkings after the round of games : Germany - Looked very comfortable against Poland, and looked like they had a lot more in the lockerHolland - Rode their luck but put in a fantastic shift against ItaliansSpain - Dismissed the Russians once they found their feet but in the first half they weren't firing on all cylindersPortugal - Were easy winners against a limited Turkey sideItaly - Had a nightmare night against the Dtuch but still looked goodSwitzerland - Plucky and enthusiastic.Sweden - Looked lame against a dogged Greece side until they scored an absolute pearlerTurkey - Awkward customers but definitely second best to PortugalRussia - Difficult to judge...they kept up with Spain for 45 minutes but faded badlyCzech Republic - Difficult to judge...given problems by the...
Channel 4’s webzine 4Talent: Central England takes the lead from the local blogs, and has music business guru John Mostyn answer the question — Battle of the Bands: is there any point?…
“I’ve looked and looked but I can’t find one occasion when entering a band competition has helped a band move forward one inch — the one exception being when Tony Wilson of Factory Records saw the Happy Mondays in one. They came last, but an amused and far-sighted Wilson saw the...
At Angel this morning a bloke got on my carriage who looked remarkably like Stewart Lee (the guy who wrote Jerry Springer The Opera and a major Brit stand up comic). You know what it's like when you see someone in a non familiar surrounding you're never really sure it's them. He looked shorter than I thought he was. Plus he was having an intense conversation about pig farming.But that's what made me really think, that must be Stewart Lee. Weirdly I had been helping to run an event about food and buying food from farmers' markets only yesterday and there was Stewart Lee (I thought right in front of me).So I plucked up the courage and said "Excuse me are you Stewart Herring?" He looked at me a bit strangely - probably cos it turned out that he was Stewart Lee and said "Err yes" I...
” What are you looking at Jingle? “ Milo Hungerford asked his wife.
Jingle was standing in front of their bathroom mirror with her hairbrush in her hand and she turned slowly towards him and said, ” I don’t know. “
He came up behind her and stared into glass and shook his head.
” That’s not right Jingle. “
She put her hand to her face and looked into the mirror again and when she turned back towards Milo she started to cry. ” Milo what’s happening to me? “
Milo pulled Jingle to his chest and turned her away from the looking glass.
” Is it still there Milo? “
Milo held Jingle tighter and said, ” yes. “
” The one in the foyer- let’s try that one too. “
” Jingle- it...
watch 'moby' recorded and edited by ellen franceswatch 'moby' recorded by zachary german'MOBY' Chris read five poems. People clapped. Chris got off the stage and stood by Nick. “Did Moby laugh,” said Chris. “His face was like stone at first but by the end he was laughing really hard,” said Nick. “Good,” said Chris. “Moby likes me.” “Did Jonathan Ames laugh?” said Chris. “No, he just stared,” said Nick. “Jonathan Ames hates me,” said Chris. “He’s probably just nervous,” said Nick. Chris stared at Moby. Chris thought about Moby’s life and felt abstract and nervous. He thought harder about Moby’s life but felt the same. Moby stood and walked to...
I am rather pleased of my picture of Grandad Kelly. I had to abandon my first attempt entirely and briefly worried that, because he has been dead for five years and I have no large or digital photographs, I may have forgotten what he looked like. As it is, this is what he looked like. RoughlyI had and still have a bit of a dilemma about this painting. Grandad has something which I understand to have been a type of skin cancer which had to be regularly treated but never caused any harm besides a permanent red make. on the bridge of his nose. I wasn't sure whether to pretend it wasn't there. In the end I decided to put it in, and to be honest it does look somewhat less prominent on the actual picture than it does on the screen - at least on my screen.But what do you think? I had a...
I don't wish to labour [sic] this point but has anyone noticed this "push the back of your hands forward like Blair" approach that Brown is doing? (see video). When Blair did it it was 'cool', it looked natural, it looked like he had passion. When Gordon does it it just.... I don't know.... it just looked utterly forced. It's like he talks and you can actually see the thought bubble saying "must...
Yesterday's game wasn't the best and neither was the journey over there but I shouldn't really moan about it too much I suppose. After all, we HAD been fortunate in finding transport at all at such short notice.It was still surprising to see something as big and cumbersome as the double decker bus that was waiting to whisk us off from Hinckley to Villa Park though.The bus was slow so the whisking was minimal and there was a strong breeze in the air which seemed to make it even slower.And when you add that to the amount of time we wasted picking just ONE passenger up at Bedworth, a few miles down the road, it was no wonder we arrived late.When we did get to Aston the streets were jam-packed with slow moving traffic and fans, young and old, busily making their way to the ground.Some were...
Eyes were popping and jaws were dropping down Rawlinson St way early this Saturday morning. It seems that one of Friday’s revellers was on her weary way home after a long night on the tiles. But the night out must have had a fancy dress theme and the lass was wearing what looked like a naughty Nurses outfit, complete with short skirt, stockings and suspenders. Not that I looked of course, but my taxi steering seemed to lock and ended up taking me round the block a time or two. As she reached the two garages on Rawlinson St, work ground to a standstill and swarms of eager mechanics rushed out knocking each other over to try and get a better view. Luckily my steering seemed to have righted itself because I had to take avoiding action as two cars and a milk float drifted to the...
Ross Simonini is the interviews editor for The Believer. He is also in a band I think. Brandon Scott Gorrell and I had dinner with Ross Simonini and Ross' friend when I went to Seattle last year to read. Brandon and I wrote about what happened when we had dinner with Ross Simonini. This post is a continuation of this post. Read Brandon and I's gmail chat below for more information about the origins of this post.Brandon: there is a gmail chat we had that is like 676 lines about emailing ross simonini its good and talking about alot of other things me: forawrd it to mewe talk about ross a lothis name appears on my blog a lot alsoBrandon: i know its a recurring theme in our friendship why has he taken on such a significant meaningme: ross 'holds us together' when ross dies our...
Remember I said how excited I was that Watford had signed a player?And then for 40 minutes he looked really good - until someone stamped on him and he got stretchered off?Well news has just come through today that poor old Calum Davenport has actually fractured his neck. :-oThat's the end of the loan - and probably the end of his season too. Ouch. :-/Calum, if it's any consolation, you looked our best player until the injury.Please come back when you are better...we need...
a strange history of Rainbow Beach
Pt 4
from the
Soul Food Cafe Project
Enchanteur Tour
On the night Alona Darelyn walked into Rainbow Beach the sign at the Starlight Drive Inn just outside of town started to glow.
One might think that the sunlight hit the sign just right and gave the illusion that the bulbs had flashed on and then off and then back on again- and one could say that it could have just been the lengthening shadows that looked like cars and people moving around the parking lot and concession stand and if you really put some effort into the thought you could tell yourself that the hissing an crackling sounds you were hearing weren’t coming from the rusty speakers on rusted metal poles…
of which there were still a few left in the Drive Inn’s weed...
Malmö trip Originally uploaded by The Rae-Brown We're officially rubbish gays. We were at the station in Brockley a little while back and there was a woman sat there wearing a hat. Of course, I looked because it was knitted, then suddenly, I thought she looked a bit like Marissa Carnesky. Maybe she was Marissa Carnesky - wouldn't that be a scoop?Jonathan did one of those "Oh, let me look over at the timetables" things so he could have a stare, then came back."No, it's not her, she's just got one of those faces."We shrugged, disappointed at not having been able to say hello to someone whose work we respect.This morning, we realised it was Kate Bush.On Friday at Duckie, we're dancing with Griff and Jonathan makes that pointed stare again, over Griff's shoulder. There's a man...
Now that the ballot is closed, I feel free to mention this, albeit with a little trepidation. I didn't like to mention it at the time, because it would have looked like "spinning". I wonder how many people these days actually remember Doris Day in "Calamity Jane"? It did occur to me that the "Calamity Clegg" title was dreamt up by someone who had an affection for old Hollywood musical films and...
On the bus to Brixton this morning, I had a bit of a Moment.
Standing there, cramped and hanging on for dear life, I looked down to see two pushchairs, side by side.
Kid a was white and kid b was black, and as I watched, kid a reached over and took kid b's hand, and they smiled at each other.
"Aww", I thought. "Two kids, having fun, together, with no thought to the differences between them. Tis the season for peace on earth and goodwill to all men, after all, and why shouldn't it extend to the children. Maybe there's hope for us after all."
... and out of nowhere, Whitney Houston started singing in my head. You know how the song goes.
Then the needle scratched the record, cutting Whitney off in her prime as I realised that kid a wasn't just being friendly. He was using kid b's hand...
