Wednesday, September 19, 2007
‘Belgium? Something that does not exist’ Political fault lines divide nation | The Guardian | Guardian Unlimited
[…] There is not a single national politician or leader (bar King Albert) or a single national political party that straddles the linguistic and cultural north-south divide between Flanders and the southern region of francophone Wallonia.
“I don’t know any federal state where you don’t have national parties. Here the parties are purely local,” says André Sapir, head of the Bruegel think tank in Brussels. “We are a federal state, but we have less and less of a common political framework.”
Tuesday, September 18, 2007
An example of a more advanced civilization than ours:
National Public Toilet Map (Australia)
Thursday, August 30, 2007
Cool, if i can make another of these entries at last, i must be getting back into the swing of blogging.
(Continued)
Thursday, August 23, 2007
That’s Liz as in Liz Phair.
http://www.visi.com/~lazlo/liz/article.html#kids
BRANDY [Age 10]: I am…Brandy…Are you really famous?
LIZ PHAIR [Age 27]: I’m moderately famous. I’m somewhere-like, if you
picture it as constellations in the sky-you know there’s the Big Dipper
and the Little Dipper. I’m sort of like that, what is that “W” one?
Cassiopeia.
[…]
LAUREN: What was the meanest thing you ever did to a Barbie?
LP: [Laughs] I took Ken away. I don’t know, let’s see, I took their
heads off. How did you know I had Barbies? That just goes assumed?
IZZY: To tell you the truth, we’re psychic.
[…]
IZZY: Did you meet any actors like, um…Keanu Reeves?
LP: No but my friend did. She said he was an airhead.
[…]
DASHA: Can you sing to us?
LP: Let’s see…Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer wiener…
Wednesday, August 1, 2007
Bursting the Bubble – Houston Press
In 1978, although he was not quite eight years old, David had realized his life would be lonely, dull and short. His helplessness enraged him. Before he was born, his body had been donated to science.
Nothing much here to check for, really, but i need some motivation to improve this to a sensible state. Have a file of the old Movable Type post contents (i exported to an incorrect format before my old MT install bungled itself up, so it’ll have to be converted by hand) to put in one of these days. I had a decent run going there for a while, you know. And it’s not like i don’t have stuff to post about.
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