Plus, they drive on the right

…Don’t watch TV begins Michael J

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no, Smith, over at Stop Me Before I Vote Again. Don’t even watch TV news clips on Youtube, if you value your sanity.

(Too late.)

After watching some coverage of the manhunt — the ludicrously ill-managed and foolish manhunt — for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, I was neck-deep in the Slough of Despond about my fellow Amurricans. Considering learning modern Icelandic — I did the mediaeval version some years ago — and moving there. Hot springs! Tall capable blondes! Debt renunciation! What’s not to like?

Haven’t managed to google anything unlikable yet. They even handled their bank meltdown in a way that gets my stamp of approval.

Why, if I still had a little boat, I could practically sail there, given a good stretch of weather…

Well, it goes on.
Another blog bookmarked.

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It’s all a foreign film to me

subtitles

Yes. Yes I do. Watching without subtitles always makes me think that I’m going to miss something. Not that the transcriptionists catch everything either.

Above is a scene from The Thick of It. Though I like writing my own, that’s an original.

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Not of this Earth

The recent discovery of a tarantula “as big as your face”

facehugger thanks for the image, guys

has me examining my new arachnid relocator device

spidercatcher500 ladybugs too? really?

and wondering if they make an industrial model

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The Great Escape

A lamb from the ample supply nearby made its way into our garden. I was about to go out and give him a lift when he found a hole in our obviously insecure perimeter defences.

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You can do it

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