Discombobulated

Sadly, this sums up exactly how I feel about Christmas. No,...

Thu, 03 Dec 2009 14:42:24 +0000

Sadly, this sums up exactly how I feel about Christmas.

No, you’re a bah humbugger.

(via Keep Your Face Radical)

Travelling Robot by Tom Gauld.

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 14:58:20 +0000

Travelling Robot by Tom Gauld.

I love this little boy and his creature. (via Souvlaki Space...

Wed, 02 Dec 2009 13:42:26 +0000

I love this little boy and his creature.

(via Souvlaki Space Station)

(via Tom Gauld)

Tue, 01 Dec 2009 12:35:41 +0000

(via Tom Gauld)

A unicorn in a monocle, wearing a special top hat with a hole in it for its horn.

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 16:36:00 +0000

Someone should probably get on that right now.

Bird and bear. (via Sarah Brown)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 15:21:21 +0000

Bird and bear.

(via Sarah Brown)

‘morning. (via Marc Johns)

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 11:09:50 +0000

‘morning.

(via Marc Johns)

Hey, Americans, dudes.

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 18:53:48 +0000

Are you seriously putting up your trees and stuff already? Really? It’s effing November.

Wow. And I thought it was us Brits who lived in the future.

Look! There goes one of our flying cars right now.

Happy Easter!

via Savage Chickens

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 14:54:12 +0000

via Savage Chickens

Aaaaaand I missed it. Bugger.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 15:28:10 +0000

Space Shuttle Atlantis due to land this morning at 9.44 EST.

Fri, 27 Nov 2009 13:23:34 +0000

S to the Q to the U to the DUBBLE E.

I’ll be watching sneakily.

Happy Thank You Day, Americans!

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 21:49:00 +0000

Enjoy your huge poultry and bizarre sweet pies containing pumpkins wot surely are vegetables not fruit and stuff.

Yours in global harmony,

Prof. S. ‘Curlysaurus’ Jenkins.

Can I be an honorary American for today please?

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 16:10:00 +0000

See? I didn’t add a ‘u’ in there because I’m trying real hard!

Oh, wow. Also I said “real” hard instead of “really” hard, so there’s that too.

Also, if I get to be American for the day, do I also get a special Dinobrainiac name?

Something involving the word Curlysaurus maybe..?

Our collective Canadian boyfriend Jason 'Sweeney' Sween just reminded me, we are thankful also for 'u's..! We put them in everything.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:29:00 +0000

Honour!

Colour!

Justiune!

Jasoun!

We Brits can be thankful too, you know. For, like, tea and stuff.

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 14:02:11 +0000

GPOYW I Cut My Hair Off Because I Was Bored Wiv It And No There...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 18:12:00 +0000

GPOYW I Cut My Hair Off Because I Was Bored Wiv It And No There Were No Hairdressers Or Hairstylists Or Whatever You Young People Today Call Them Involved DO YOU LIKE IT THOUGH And I’m Sorry About The Photo Quality But This Video Camera Wot Takes Stills Really Shouldn’t Be Taking Stills Because Just Look At It Oh And Do I Look Like A Boy Now? edition

Lines for Winter, by Mark Strand

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 16:46:00 +0000

for Ros Krauss

Tell yourself
as it gets cold and gray falls from the air
that you will go on
walking, hearing
the same tune no matter where
you find yourself -
inside the dome of dark
or under the cracking white
of the moon’s gaze in a valley of snow.
Tonight as it gets cold
tell yourself
what you know which is nothing
but the tune your bones play
as you keep going. And you will be able
for once to lie down under the small fire
of winter stars.
And if it happens that you cannot
go on or turn back
and you find yourself
where you will be at the end,
tell yourself
in that final flowing of cold through your limbs
that you love what you are.

Sometimes I wish..

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 13:04:13 +0000

Just that, really.

Sometimes I wish.

mayjah: turnofthecentury: i12bent:Nov. 24, 1639 – English...

Wed, 25 Nov 2009 11:26:55 +0000

mayjah:

turnofthecentury:

i12bent:Nov. 24, 1639 – English astronomer Jeremiah Horrocks observes the transit of Venus, an event he alone had predicted.

This planetary event, which plays a central role in Thomas Pynchon’s novel Mason & Dixon, and which involves the planet Venus crossing the disk of the Sun as seen from Earth, occurs with long intervals within a 243-year cycle - but once one passage occurs, another always comes 8 years later. We had one in 2004 and are due to have the next one in 2012, and that’ll be the last time any of us are likely to see one (unless anyone plans to be around in 2117)…

Photo of the 1882 transit, taken at Vassar College

I nabbed Mason & Dixon from the library’s 50-cent rack, haven’t dug into it yet. This must be a sign…

WOW.

Short hair cut? Do it, Mary. It feels great. I cut all mine off two days ago. And I lurves it.

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:21:59 +0000

True story.