“Not bovvered” in Downing Street (US readers: for background that will help you understand / get the joke in the above, first check this page and the video on it)…
…A different take on the concept. (Click on the image for a larger version) Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody!
I roared. An oldie-but-goodie from The Onion: “Mary Gaughan, my mother’s father’s mother’s mother, was from a tiny village called Ballydesmond,” said the brown-eyed, brown-haired Kroeger, who is half German,…
Damp-squid declaration by Hagel sums up Republican woes (snort)
Just gorgeous. (Click here for the article.) Look at those dust storms!
The “Eye of Sauron” Tesla Coil. [tags]Sauron, Tesla[/tags]
Oh dear, oh dear. Not safe for those who don’t like the F word and its variants. But visually hilarious. [tags]Star Wars, gangsta, rap[/tags]
While working on something else, I just caught a teaser on Euronews about this exhibition marking the reopening of the National Palace Museum in Taiwan. I’m a sucker for antique…
But only because it’s too late for us to endanger mammoths much. Fossilized mammoth ivory scrimshawed bracelets, $800 each. [tags]scrimshaw, mammoth, ivory, bracelet[/tags]
This has been in the pipeline for a while.YoungWizards.com is now running under the Drupal content-management system, which will make it capable of handling its own blogs, forums, and other…
Whatever else may be going on around here at the moment, there’s one event that I have to mention. Twenty years ago, Peter and I were married. If the past…
Young Pip was killed by a car this morning: we just found him by the side of the road. No more blogging for a while.
Cleolinda has a gift for finding the right word. Or, when necessary, inventing it. Like the new word for July 21, 2007: Potterdämmerung.
Or, “The fear of death in literature.” A British book retailer plans to set up a counseling hotline for all heartbroken fans of Harry Potter, in case he dies in…
We take them for granted. We shouldn’t. During my visit to Tapp’s apiary just outside Chapel Hill, I asked him, “I’m wondering, does fifteen billion dollars worth of food a…
The New York Times food critic Frank Bruni walks all over Gordon Ramsay’s new place in NYC. Goodness!! The cautious palette foreshadows a cautious menu, as reliant on default luxuries…
Chapter Six has now gone freerange for those of you who’re not subscribers. Enjoy, folks! (Chapter Seven should be going up on Sunday for the subscribers. Check the Big Meow…
I roared. Someone email this to JKR, quick… The seventh and last installment of boy wizard Harry Potter and his antics at Hogwarts, sinisterly titled Harry Potter and the Deathly…
…I mean nostalgia in its original sense of something that causes you a slight yearning pain as you think about things past and lost. No telling what brought on today’s…
Those of you who’ve been following the The Big Meow project will have noticed some changes at the site as we’ve changed hosting providers and brought up the new Drupal…
Archaeologists have found the remains of an ancient settlement two miles from Stonehenge which seems to have been built specifically to celebrate the Winter Solstice… big time. The new finds…
[scrippet] INT. NITA’S BEDROOM — NIGHT She’s hidden by the tented-up blankets on her bed. The dim light welling out from underneath would make you think she’s doing the reading-by-flashlight…
Swans have nested in the little pond behind our house for at least fifty years…perhaps longer. In 2005, one of the pair who’d been coming back to nest every spring suddenly…
There are various book memes that seem to have been around forever…and So You Want to Be a Wizard is number 356 on one of them, a meme apparently native…