Brendan

I have breakfasted on home made mince pies this morning.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > working from home today....huzzahh!!!! Oh yeah. Well I'm not working from the office. huzzahh!

Me - at and two veg with gravy and stuffing as it is Christmas after all.

Personally I think churches have a creepy obsession with what people choose to do behind closed doors which puts them broadly in the category of sickos.

I?ve just been speaking to a friend and colleague who got back from Rwanda yesterday. He has been telling me about the first hand accounts he heard about the Catholic Church?s support for and involvement in the genocide there in 1994.* This isn?t some medieval inquisition but a very real event that took place just over a decade ago. As part of it Catholic priests called their Tutsi congregations to gather in church and then allowed Hutu militia to butcher them. In my opinion it is organisations like the church that the world needs protecting from. They can take their opinions on ?oo knobs ?oo and shove ?em. *The French government also played an active part.

Me: Built my own turkey this year with. Deployed a Meccano style design using twizzlers, toothpicks and cocktail onions.

Or you could adopt the world view I have. That being, that I am only one man with good intentions so I can therefore lay culpability for the world squarely at the feet of everyone else. You bastards. You should try it it?s a very liberating place to be.

The half-brick is also at the head of credit crunch fashion. Let?s face it for everyone who is anyone it is all about the crunch this season. When it is time to take to the streets because the bank won?t pay Marcus? bonus and you can?t afford this year?s new Range Rover don?t be seen using a substandard projectile weapon. Use your half-brick to take out a riot policeman at 10 paces.

You are not invited to my party: http://www.27bslash6.com/matthewsparty.html

Those are so last year. What you want is one of these. The now legendary half-brick. http://simonfraser.net/ART/Gubbins/brick.jpg The must have household item with an edgy past the half-brick is the ultimate in urban chic. Forged in the back alleys and builder?s yards of London it now finds its true home as a tasteful addition to the contemporary bookcase or fashionable hallway door. But this multipurpose piece of art is not only a bookend or a doorstop. Why not give this Christmas that gangland feel by having your cards personally delivered, tied to an impressive half-brick and cast through the windows of your family and friends. Locally sourced by an up-and-coming, cult, neo-retro-neo-modernist, East Dulwich designer the half-brick puts itself in a class above all other bookends and doorstops, be they shaped as roller-skates, rollerblades or heelies, by being reassuringly priced at ?1000 (excl delivery). So order now not to be disappointed.

Personally I like novels to be heavy on the rude jokes with a sprinkle of nonsense poetry. I realise that the immortal greats like Dostoyevsky, Tolstoy and Rowling do not employ these methods but Shakespeare did. The only reason he didn?t also write novels was because they hadn?t really been invented yet and most of his target audience probably couldn?t read.

??the beauty of the writing and the wonder of the human spirit? Did you embroider that on a throw cushion? How about, the absurdity of existence and the slapstick nature of human endeavour. (I?m so cool I scrawled that in Gauloise on the back of a dog eared copy of On the Road.) Oh by the way, On the Road? Rubbish! As a student I tried to use it as a prop to pull ?interesting? girls and it failed every time. Sorry wrong thread.

Well I wasn't going to say anything.

Sorry that had something to do with AD/DC but I think it ended up in the wrong place. How mad is a box of frogs?

Bloody Australians can?t handle their booze.

This has made the news. http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7795684.stm

That sketch is exactly what was going through my mind when I wrote that post. I actually quite like football but I just get sick of there being sooooo much of it on all the time. On the subject of cricket that test match in India is shaping up to be quite interesting.

Most gratuitous use of flock wallpaper.

Or will I have to go to one of those ghastly Aussie bars in town to see it? I realise that there are no doubt a number of the infinite amount of soccer fixtures that are played non-stop up and down the land to various ends that will take precedence. However if somewhere could spare 1 screen for 2 hours to for the biggest test match in the cricketing calendar between the 2 best teams in the world, well that would be nice. I'm pretty sure there would be a number of punters interested if they knew it was on somewhere.

Here is some profound insight into the cryptic imagery in the song: http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/news/arts-%26-entertainment/song-everyone-pretends-to-understand-is-christmas-number-one-200812221474/

On the subject of really rather good picture books, I finished Watchmen the other day (just in time to be disappointed by the film. Where would Hollywood be without comics?) I think it is actually better than V for Vendetta.

mockney piers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Ooh, I love Neil Gaiman Have you read the Sandman series? Absolutely bloody brilliant. They?re proper books too, you know, the ones with pictures.

Most importantly do they do take out and deliver? Will they bring me burritos to go with my beer and playstation on hangover days?

I?m normally one of those dickhead music snobs who always has something to say about songs just to prove he?s too cool for school. Like: ?You had to have heard so-n-so?s version that only 5 people ever heard because it?s the best purely for its obscurity...? Or ?wassisname did it best in ?68 when she used the thingymabob through the magafter and so-n-so produced it.? And ?you can?t possibly like that coz it was on some television programme...? etc. etc. I inhabit a sad little world. But Hallelujah is a song that was truly inspired. In a way it?s an ode to music itself. It sounds amazing even on reality TV. Fuck, Barney the Dinosaur could do a version of it and I would like it.

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