Monthly archives: January 2004


Yippee Ki Ay, mother-fucker

Everybody else is talking about the Dean Scream, so I might as well join in.

Howard Dean came third in the Iowa caucus. (Now, we in casa Spinneyhead are still a little befuddled as to what a caucus does. I’m sticking with my original impression that it’s all about people voting to choose the people who’ll go on to vote for the people who’ll go to the Democratic convention to vote for the person who’ll be the presidential candidate.) Howie made an impassioned speech and ended it with a strangulated yell. Everyone’s decided that this one over-enthusiastic holler makes the man unelectable, which is rich in a country whose president has problems stringing coherent sentences together.

Some of the remixes are cool though. Finally some humour in the presidential race.


The Hard Decisions, parts 2 & 3

Hard decision part 1 was moving my ISP, which wasn’t that hard a decision at all really.

Hard decision 3 was getting rid of my fancy expensive mountain bike that sits in the corner of the kitchen and rarely gets ridden because I’m so scared of breaking it. I just took it to Bike Doc and hopefully they’ll give me part-ex on a lighter hardtail that I can take for long back country treks. (I know there’s precious little back country around Manchester, but that’s what the train is for.) To be honest the Giant was a bit of a rebound bike, something I bought in an attempt to get over the hurt of having all my bikes nicked whilst I was in Surrey. It was pure lust at first sight and the relationship never really flourished the way it should.

Hard decision 2 was to have been quitting my course, but the closer I came to doing it the harder it became and the more obvious that it was actually a bad decision.

And as if all this deciding stuff wasn’t exhausting enough, Bad Clanger has developed another habit.


Don't vote for us

Homophobic action group the American Family Association had a poll about gay marriage on their site. No doubt they expected it to come out against any such rights for those horrible homosexual types and they could then present the results in support of their cause. Of course, the Internet is far too cool a place for that to happen, the poll was leaked and the result ended up two to one for gay marriage rights


Constructive Tourism

If you haven’t yet been to India, get out here now and check out the architecture. The golden triangle of tourism, Delhi-Agra-Jaipur is truly amazing.

Highlights include the Taj Mahal (obviously), Agra Fort, Fatipur Sikri, Humayan’s Tomb, and pretty much all of Jaipur (aka the Pink City).

Tomorrow, we explore the Amber Fort, which we are hoping to arrive at via elephant.

Between the two of us we’ve taken nearly 1000 photographs so far, with many of the highlights of Jaipur to go. Be prepared for long evenings of “What I did on my holidays!”


I wouldn't join any club that would have me as a member

Emily is a bit miffed that her name was 2003’s most popular girl’s name. She wanted to be exclusive.

Checking the list for Spinneyheads- John comes in at 33, Ian at 53, Brian at 72 and Tim(othy) 96. Darren, Damian and Alan are nowhere to be seen.

If you look through the list it’s easy to conclude that there are some stupid and/ or malicious parents out there. Were all the girls called Trinity conceived during the long boring philosophical bits in reloaded?