I’m having a bit of a UMIST week, what with the (no longer) mysterious Phantom and everything.
Someone came to Spinneyhead from a Google search for nude umist, which I thought was going to be a bit scary until I clicked on this link (NSFW, it’s an online portolio for a glamour model). Does anyone know this woman? Just out of, y’know, curiousity.
Exactly what it says on the box. It’s not often I can point at someone and go “Geeeeeek!!!!” (Apart from Daz, of course, but he’s deeply in denial.)
To tide me over until Gran Turismo 4 arrives (hell, to tide me over until the preview arrives) I just picked up a copy of GT2 I found in a charity shop. (Daz is now going to tell me that he already has a copy of the game, but I’d rather give 2 quid to charity than risk being trapped in the under stairs cupboard whilst searching through all our junk.)
Of course, PS1 games don’t save on PS2 memory cards, unless anyone knows of a hack or trick.
92. Attend a televised awards ceremony
93. Learn a programming language
Properly, not in the half arsed way I learnt to gaffer tape routines together in VBA. Griff says that C# is quite a lucrative area to be in.
94. Visit every Disneyland
This was actually Griff’s aim, but I stole it.
95. Get a free crate of Glenfiddich
Sometimes breweries will gift crates of their products to writers who mention them. I’m also open to offers of Jennings Sneck Lifter.
96. Go scuba diving on the Great Barrier Reef
97. Get as close to an active volcano as possible
98. Attend a gala movie premiere
Hell, if Rebecca Loos can do it, so can I. But I’m not shagging any footballers except these two.
99. Publish a cook book
My sister’s been promising to write one for a while now. I must get her to finish it.
100. Get ‘Ian Seat’ into the OED
Being the position in acrowded room, bar, etc, which has the least advantageous view for eyeing up members of the opposite sex.
It seems that aim 10 (Make it into the Popdex top 100) isn’t all that hard if you’re willing to use a few tricks.
I managed to achieve goal 60 (Burn all my CD singles to MP3) this morning. I now have 4958 songs- 13 days, 16 hours, 21 minutes and 54 seconds of music- on the computer. So now I have to think of another goal, though the logical next step is-
101. Burn all my CDs to MP3
The US seems determined to destroy its tourist industry, which they’re going to need as a vital source of income if their economy gets any more shaky. Tourism companies estimate that the intrusive and excessive security questions required by the Advanced Passenger Information System could stretch check in times to five hours before take-off.
7,500 Kalashnikovs were found on a ship headed for the US. This sort of ties in to the first DEx storyline.
Technorati tag: Arms Smuggling
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A new Cycling On The Pavement is up.
Older Cyclings have been moved to the Archive.
This sounds interesting- an architectural model, presented as art, based upon the buildings and rooms described in a novel. Specifically, The Trial by Franz Kafka, but the creator is moving on to other stories.
And he�s keen to work with a contemporary writer, creating a space for their work. �Maybe I�ll do Bridget Jones�s Diary. Make a city out of cream buns.�
Shock! Horror! Manchester would be vapourised if an asteroid ever hit it.
A New Zealand sheep had managed to avoid shearing for six years, until being caught recently. When finally shorn, it produced 27 kilos of wool.
Texas Republicans vote for The Rapture.
Daz and Emily had a meal in Petra a couple of weeks ago. Who’d have thought that the flat above the kebabery next door was a centre of Islamic terrorism. Another report from the MEN site, and another.
Green and black teas contain chemicals which can slow the growth of prostate cancer tumours.
I seem to have started the day on a nether regions theme. Should I continue? Hmmmmm.
Mary Tales, so far, has been an excuse to make pictures of naked and partially naked women. But when I launch it as an online strip, I aspire to producing something of the calibre of the late, great Omaha the Cat Dancer– clever, engaging and highly erotic. To do that I’ll have to break the taboo on male nudity and naked women as anything other than objects, as discussed in today’s Guardian.
Ah yes, the Crooked Billet, I remember that. It pretty much sums up Staines in my opinion.
From Derelict London, via Green Fairy.
