A bit of German pop for you....

This is Wir Sind Helden, who I saw at the ICA last night. Am guessing you won't really get a feel for it via the 2 megapixel brilliance of my camera phone (or my position right at the back of the crowd) but seeing as they're my first ever uploads to You Tube, I thought I'd share them.

Hello again

It's been a while again, hasn't it? I entirely blame Facebook for my lack of action - I don't actually do anything on it, but just spend hours seemingly refreshing the browser to see if anyone else has done something. I'm sure it's not the most productive way of spending my fast-disappearing youth.

Recently I've also been up to a fair bit - went to see my favourite German pop band last night at ...

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Intelligent humour

I'm trying to clean a variety of stains from our sofa at the moment in preparation for the landlord finally bringing round a sofa cover, and noticed that this has appeared due to the way I've tried to get the (rather nasty) fag burn cleaned up a bit. Not quite the same as seeing Jesus' likeness in a Kumquat, but a phenomenon nonetheless. Or at least a mildly amusing accident.

Kenyaaa.....Ohhh Kenyaaaa.....

.....where the giraffes are..... and the zebraaaaaa!

Yes, as I write, Mother tattie (on the left in the photo) has been in Kenya for 5 days and her trek is, amazingly, almost over. In the past few days, she has seen giraffes, buffalo and gazelles, abseiled down a 25 metre cliff and climbed 550m up the side of a volcano... and these are just the things she has told me about.

She'll never realise ...

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Glasgow's a tough city...

Just look at this piece of evidence. Unfortunately You Tube have disabled the embed function but if you clik on the link you should be transported back to another era, when men were men and wore moustaches with pride....

Glasgow Diamonds Football Team

"Dreamt" is the only word in the English language ending with "-mt"

Amazing what you can learn from the back of a Penguin wrapper

I take it all back

Thanks to Helen for making me feel a whole hell of a lot better about missing Roskilde this year.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/6283822.stm

This brightened up my Monday morning

A public service announcement

Courtesy of Mr Murray Gordon.

Psycho cabbie

The latest satirical news website on the internet

At least, I hope to God it is. I mean, they can't actually be serious with headline likes this can they?

Headline 1

Headline 2

The John McClane of Glasgow

Those north of the border will no doubt already be familiar with Mr John Smeaton, or "the Smeatonator" as he's now known. This is the guy who - irritated at having his fag break interrupted - single-handedly took on the terrorists at Glasgow Airport last Saturday. As the wonderful article today in local rag "The Daily Record" quoted him as saying:

"This man went straight for the policeman and ...

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I love summer

This evening it felt like the apocalypse was nigh....

Freaky Storminess

Pics of said freaky storminess

very odd. I would have my own photo but had to put my camera out the window to take it and it got soaked and blurry.

Bloody summer.

Lorna Hunter

The day many never thought would happen is finally here - my thank you post to Lorna.

The official reason (not excuse) for not writing one sooner is that I didn't have a photo of her to accompany the glorious tribute, but some handiwork with my scanner a few minutes ago means I now have one at my disposal. Erm, this one. I did have another one but I gave it to Andy about 2 years ago to scan for ...

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Cigars. Rubbish.

Adieu

Ban? What ban?