El Pibe

Yes, it was all up and running yesterday and not as busy as one might expect, which was nice.

Can you tell that the Barry amble left me behind with the kids whilst they're all having fun?

Private pyle

Narcissus?

Is that a clue?

I'll stop talking to myself soon

Actually he started so wooden, that is waaaaaaay wide of the mark.

Vader

Akira

Europa

Vlad?

Flipping Eck!

Bottom line, we're a bunch of crumblies.

Aq M, the clue was in the title!!

The splintering of the rebels is horribly akin to the fractures in the loyalist coalitions in the Spanish Civil War, instead of concentrating on victory they're already fighting over the spoils of a victory that is becoming more and more illusory the more they fight for it's end-state. In fact with each islamist atrocity I see an increase in likelihood of an end to the war with echoes of Iraq, a Hama-Awakening if you will. How that will pan out in terms of a workable peace after the atrocities committed by the government backed militias I have no idea, but uneasy would certainly be an understatement. Given the events of the last few months surely any sort of peace is preferable to any end-state desired by extra national actors, but it would certainly seem that the loyalist forces have a better hand in those (potential) negotiations. As an aside, I can't help (with the usual horror at all political, particularly indiscriminate, violence) a sort of schadenfreudal sense of irony at Hezbollah , on becoming a quasi-national military force and instrument of repression, eliciting the sort of insurgent activity that they more or less invented.

It's more in the 05:00 starts, but yeah, you know....

open letter to hipsters?

open letter to admin?

pm?

Parole boards and remorse spring to mind.

I was going to go with an analysis of the relative concretion of optionality versus expectation, with a particular accentuation upon considerative monetary accretions regards repastive accounting. Or is Nanny Plum the sexiest cartoon character ever? Actually they're both petty dire. Nice weather?

fingers crossed will be there for at least kick off. Hoping lots of characters turn up, you know who you are, and hoping to show HMB that I'm not necessarily the most boring man on the planet, though that depends entirely on the topic of conversation.

"it has also occured to me that Calvin's dad has more than a smidge of El Pibe about him" It's all in the defeated slope of the shoulders

If you live to 100 you might be immortal, statistics show very few centenarians die!!