Alan Moore: why I turned my back on Hollywood | Books | The Observer
Kids at the nearby shopping centre sometimes heckle, Moore says, calling him God, or Jesus, “which I’ll take, because Jesus died at 33 and they’ve obviously mistaken me for a much younger man”.
Linguists at the University of Manchester have discovered that their city boasts a population that speaks at least 153 languages, making it one of the world’s most diverse places linguistically.
via Manchester is the most linguistically diverse city in Europe | UK news | The Observer.
I think this is awesome, though I sometimes have problems speaking my one language (I swear, one day Charlotte and I are going to have a conversation completely in grunts). Obviously the reactionarie are going to tell me that living in a world class city is somehow a bad thing.
Interesting billboard. Christmas start with Christ, they say.