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liadnan"I don't advise a haircut man. All hairdressers are in the employment of the government. Hairs are your aerials. They pick up signals from the cosmos, and transmit them directly into the brain. This is the reason bald-headed men are uptight."
If you can't place the quote, the firing squad can probably fit you in this afternoon.
Wiser words never spoken. Well, perhaps a few, but not many. But I am shorn. Also Sean, but that's an entirely different matter.
Whatever. More depressing was the discovery, on inspection of the back, that I shall shortly effectively have a tonsure. It therefore follows that I shall never pull again, and should start drowning my sorrows now. Perhaps I should have become a monk after all, though the agnosticism and the slight problem with chastity, though sadly not with celibacy, would probably have become a problem in the end.
Mugshots for the Chambers website now taken. Depending on how bad they are I may tell you where to find them once they're up.
I thought I had no work today, but I seem to have become involved in co-writing a paper on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 on the law of corporate insolvency and recovery. I doubt any of you will appreciate this, but I honestly find this stuff fascinating. Shortly put, the Act is supposedly an attempt to make our equivalent of Chapter 11 proceedings more popular and effective. I'm not convinced.
Tomorrow and Monday is my mini-holiday, and on at least one of those days I shall be off to WimblyDone. Apropos of which, caught most of Hantuchova (or the future Mrs Liadnan as she is also known) - Asagoe last night, possibly the best match I've managed to catch so far this year. And bye bye Greg. I do think the umpire should have called a lett on that point, but a large part of tennis is the ability to get over things like that, he could still have won after all.
One final thought.. in whom do we place more trust, the BBC and in particular the Today programme, or Mr Alisdair Campbell? Go on, surprise me.
(For the record, no I haven't changed my opinion on The War, but since my somewhat limited support never had anything to do with "WMD" -a vacuous acronym which neatly elides the distinction between Very Nasty Weapons and Fairly Nasty Weapons, and completely fails to raise the issue of effective delivery mechanisms for those weapons- I think I can just about be on the other side on that one and retain intellectual coherence and consistency. Possibly.)
If you can't place the quote, the firing squad can probably fit you in this afternoon.
Wiser words never spoken. Well, perhaps a few, but not many. But I am shorn. Also Sean, but that's an entirely different matter.
Whatever. More depressing was the discovery, on inspection of the back, that I shall shortly effectively have a tonsure. It therefore follows that I shall never pull again, and should start drowning my sorrows now. Perhaps I should have become a monk after all, though the agnosticism and the slight problem with chastity, though sadly not with celibacy, would probably have become a problem in the end.
Mugshots for the Chambers website now taken. Depending on how bad they are I may tell you where to find them once they're up.
I thought I had no work today, but I seem to have become involved in co-writing a paper on the effects of the Enterprise Act 2002 on the law of corporate insolvency and recovery. I doubt any of you will appreciate this, but I honestly find this stuff fascinating. Shortly put, the Act is supposedly an attempt to make our equivalent of Chapter 11 proceedings more popular and effective. I'm not convinced.
Tomorrow and Monday is my mini-holiday, and on at least one of those days I shall be off to WimblyDone. Apropos of which, caught most of Hantuchova (or the future Mrs Liadnan as she is also known) - Asagoe last night, possibly the best match I've managed to catch so far this year. And bye bye Greg. I do think the umpire should have called a lett on that point, but a large part of tennis is the ability to get over things like that, he could still have won after all.
One final thought.. in whom do we place more trust, the BBC and in particular the Today programme, or Mr Alisdair Campbell? Go on, surprise me.
(For the record, no I haven't changed my opinion on The War, but since my somewhat limited support never had anything to do with "WMD" -a vacuous acronym which neatly elides the distinction between Very Nasty Weapons and Fairly Nasty Weapons, and completely fails to raise the issue of effective delivery mechanisms for those weapons- I think I can just about be on the other side on that one and retain intellectual coherence and consistency. Possibly.)
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Date: 2003-06-26 04:36 am (UTC)Steve Bell has a great cartoon in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/cartoons/0,7371,337484,00.html) today
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Date: 2003-06-26 05:48 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-26 05:57 am (UTC)in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 05:05 am (UTC)I am not sure what was mentioned on the Today programme but trusting Campbell shouldn't be a requirement even if an alien landing was reported.
And from what I recall of your reasons for supporting the war [*grumbles* though most of that discussion was when I was unsubbed and on vacation], there shouldn't be any conflict between distrusting Campbell and your stance on the issue.
Re: in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 05:39 am (UTC)Re: in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 06:23 am (UTC)I haven't seen a newspaper or visited a news related site in 4 days. :)
Re: in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 07:52 am (UTC)Campbell used to write hard core porn incidentally.
In other news, Denis Thatcher is dead (just) and Greg Rusedski said fuck several times to an umpire. That should bring you up to speed for the UK, the subcontinent I leave to you...
Re: in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 08:25 am (UTC)So what do you think of Tony Blair? :)
Re: in whom do we place more trust...?
Date: 2003-06-26 08:35 am (UTC)Actually in all seriousness I find him something of an enigma, still.
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Date: 2003-06-26 06:44 am (UTC)The scary thing is reading this having being watching the very same film, um (checks watch) about twelve hours ago.
/me rocks off to sound of All Along the Watchtower...
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Date: 2003-06-26 07:24 pm (UTC)I have a distinct memory of spending more than one wet afternoon wandering around Regent's Park looking for the wolves (and a certain park bench) and completely failing to find them.
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Date: 2003-06-26 07:55 am (UTC)This is why I wear contacts.
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