And a day of weird and wiggly news.
Oct. 7th, 2005 08:23 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aamusedinatxFirstly, in a small corner of Britain...the posters for Wallace and Gromit's new movie is banned.
"In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth," . Aussies...gotta luv em.
Suddenly thing seem to be going wrong in (d)Roves. Can you tell I'm vastly amused by this unraveling? Being called in front of a grand jury 4 times is NOT a good sign, I don't care what his attorney said. DeLay also said he'd fight his charges categorically--and what did he do? Asked to have the first charge dismissed on 'technicality'. I think he spent too much time inhaling DDT when he was still the ORKIN man :P
Local plug: One of my favorite museums re-opens next week. Of course I still haven't seen the new Asian Art museum...I need to do so, soon.
I wonder if you can get the doorman to smile :)
Simon Hoggart. I adore this man...even if he does talk about national politics a half-world away:
Did Bush act on Divine Advice?
Conflict of interest...or lie down with dogs and you'll rise up with fleas:
(From news of da weird!)
Let's hope for a good weekend, shall we?
Posters advertising the new Wallace and Gromit movie have been banned from one superstitious corner of Britain.
Posters for The Curse of the Were Rabbit have been banned from the Isle of Portland in Dorset, reports Sky News.
For more than 100 years the word "rabbit" has been considered bad luck there because burrowing caused by rabbits has caused land slips in the area's famous quarries.
"In da Bginnin God cre8d da heavens & da earth," . Aussies...gotta luv em.
Suddenly thing seem to be going wrong in (d)Roves. Can you tell I'm vastly amused by this unraveling? Being called in front of a grand jury 4 times is NOT a good sign, I don't care what his attorney said. DeLay also said he'd fight his charges categorically--and what did he do? Asked to have the first charge dismissed on 'technicality'. I think he spent too much time inhaling DDT when he was still the ORKIN man :P
Local plug: One of my favorite museums re-opens next week. Of course I still haven't seen the new Asian Art museum...I need to do so, soon.
Move over, Eros.
Developers announced plans Friday to open a multimillion dollar sexual "theme park" near London's Piccadilly Circus, home to the much-photographed statue of the Greek god of love.
I wonder if you can get the doorman to smile :)
Simon Hoggart. I adore this man...even if he does talk about national politics a half-world away:
This is the weirdest Tory conference most of us can remember. It is wonderfully, surreally, demented. While the leadership battle rages and swirls around the Blackpool Winter Gardens, the party is being given a sustained thumping by its most senior members. It's like a beauty contest held in Miss Whippelashe's basement.
"You've been a very naughty boy! I'll make you scream for mercy! That'll be a hundred quid, darling, cash if you don't mind." That was the message from their chairman, Francis Maude. He told them the British people thought they were crap. They believed that individual Tories were crap, that their policies were crap, and their outlook was crap.
Of course he didn't use those exact words. Instead he used charts. Nobody thinks the Tories shared their values. More than half the population thinks they're stuck in the past, that they don't care about ordinary people. He illustrated his talk with what could hardly be called a PowerPoint presentation; more an impotence slide show.
Did Bush act on Divine Advice?
Conflict of interest...or lie down with dogs and you'll rise up with fleas:
Lawyer Curtis Holmes, who had just delivered the opening statement in defense of an alleged child sex abuser in a Pocatello, Idaho, courtroom in August, was, minutes later, suspended by the state bar association for a previous case, in which he arranged to take nude photos of a client in exchange for reducing her bill.
(From news of da weird!)
Let's hope for a good weekend, shall we?
