So anyway…

Tudor England. Great info, pictures, quizzes, mmmm. It’s a Tudorphile’s wet dream, I’m telling you.

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When Andrew bends over and half his arse is visible, it’s considered a generally bad thing.
When a fashion model does it on the runway, it’s high fashion… ?

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Just saw this Google ad on a recipe site:

Ads By Google
Ground Beef Sale
New & used Ground Beef. Check out the deals now!
www.eBay.com

And just in case you don’t believe me, here’s a screen capture:

(Please go ahead and share the image if you want; it’s just a screen capture, after all.)

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A man whom police described as deranged and bent on suicide abandoned a sport-utility vehicle on a heavily traveled commuter rail track early Wednesday, causing a violent wreck involving three trains that left at least 10 people dead and more than 180 injured.

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When I first came to Australia in 1999, I started to watch television, trying to absorb the culture and current events. I noticed pretty quickly that there was this tall, somewhat stout man who kept appearing on television all the bloody time, giving opinions on bloody everything. We’re talking sound bite city here. I found it rather annoying, actually.
Finally I asked Andrew, “Who the hell is Kim Beazley, and why is he always on the news?”
Turns out he was the Leader of the Opposition which was then (as now) the Labour Party.
Anyway, he eventually lost the leadership and they got in Simon Crean, a man more bland than boiled cabbage and more boring than John Howard (our illustrious Prime Minister), and that’s saying quite a lot.
Then he was out and the upstart, smart-mouthed Mark Latham managed to get the leadership of the Labour Party. Mark had a very colorful way with words, and once referred to the opposition’s front bench as “a conga line of suckholes” and called John Howard an “arse licker”. I have to say I didn’t think all that much of him as a politician, but I liked the way he said stuff. Pretty entertaining.
Well, Mark has recently resigned, mostly due to health issues (he’s got some sort of painful disease that flares up when he’s too stressed, so, yeah, I think politics isn’t a good career for him if he wants to stay out of the hospital).
And guess who’s the new leader of the Labour Party? Kim Beazley.
A conga line of suckholes, indeed.

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I’ve got this new scanner here, and haven’t scanned anything at all. I’m thinking that perhaps I might get out some of my hand-drawn or painted artwork (i.e., traditional media, rather than digital) and scan some of it. Trouble is, my favorite, and which I would dearly love to have in digital format (despite its somewhat controversial nature) is rather big, and I think I’d have to scan in multiple passes, something I’ve never actually been all that good at.
Anyway, first I’d have to actually find the portfolio (as in, an actual portfolio case)…

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Poorly-drawn cartoons inspired by actual spam subject lines! (Too funny, go have a look, I swear I was actually having to wipe my eyes I was laughing so much!)

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A friend just said this to me via ICQ:

I was going to go to bed but I realised I can’t — they just opened a starbuck’s on it. So I was going to go up and crash on the sofa, but there’s a starbucks there now too.

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Johnny Carson, the quick-witted “Tonight Show” host who became a national institution putting his viewers to bed for 30 years with a smooth nightcap of celebrity banter and heartland charm, died Sunday. He was 79.

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This news hits me surprisingly hard. I kinda feel like I just had a punch in the gut. I grew up with Johnny Carson, started watching when I was old enough to have a television on that late, I dunno, it just seems weird that he’s really gone…

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