Sack The Cat

This has been well broadcast around the blogosphere but I thought I'd link to it anyway, because it made me laugh :)

garfield minus garfield

"Who would have guessed that when you remove Garfield from the Garfield comic strips, the result is an even better comic about schizophrenia, bipolor disorder, and the empty desperation of modern life? Friends, meet Jon Arbuckle. Let’s laugh and learn with him on a journey deep into the tortured mind of an isolated young everyman as he fights a losing battle against lonliness and methamphetamine addiction in a quiet American suburb."

Comentarios

I have had a little tweak of the comments system on this here blog of mine. Now, when you click the Comments link, they will magically appear on the very same page, through the power of The Dark Side (AKA: JavaScript). And click the link again to hide them.

Should you decide you then wish to inject your consensus challenging opinions into the ongoing diatribe (and please do) then just head for the "Post A Comment" link underneath them (if there are any, which, if I'm honest, there usually aren't.)

Also, due to the emergence of a certain amount of comment spam, I am toying with the idea of word verification; I'll try to avoid it if possible because it's a pain in the a$$.

Anyway, come on in and speak your brains...

Sozzled & Mash(ed)

Is it Fathers' Day soon?
And the double awesome thing is that the whole book is also available online, for free gratis, nilch:

"Cooking With Booze, the book, was published in the UK in October 2007, in a very traditional form. But it’s a book that couldn’t have happened without the web, so I thought I should give something back. Here it is: the complete text of CWB, online for all. If you like the book, cook one of the recipes and enjoy it, I’d be very grateful if you’d buy a copy, but if not, no worries."

But you know you really, really want the print edition, don't you. I do. Oh, yeah.

Happy 25th Birthday, Eduardo

Arsenal striker Eduardo Alves da Silva is 25 today.

Rather a shame that his leg was shattered in two places on Saturday by an utterly disgraceful high tackle in the third minute from Birmingham City fuckwit* Martin Taylor**, isn't it?

~SQUEAMISH WARNING~
~DETAILED PICTURES HERE~

If it was malicious, and he intended it, ban him for life. If it wasn't, and he is just clumsy, he shouldn't be playing in the Premier League. Most Sunday morning pub teams (and I have played for a few) wouldn't accept tackles like that from their defenders; shin high, studs up, sliding in at speed.

Contrary to many, I am placing the blame firmly at the door of Alex McLeish, Birmingham City's manager. It is almost certain that, in the dressing room before the game, he fired his payers up with the instruction to "go and let them know they've been in a game", "get yourselves in their faces early doors" and "the way to beat Arsenal is to kick them up in the air". Unfortunately, if you do that with players of obviously limited ability, people get hurt. If that is indicative of how English club managers tell their teams to play against Arsenal, maybe that European Super League isn't such a bad idea. At least the swan-diving, shirt-pulling, face-spitting Italians play decent football :)

Seriously, though, I am livid. I don't buy any of this 'freak accident' bleating from certain sections of the media (and Garth Crooks can just fuck right off, while we're here). The studs-up challenge was banned for a reason. With the number of 'potentially career ending challenges' analysed on Match Of The Day each week, you'd think the authorities might have reviewed the punishment for such atrocities and forced both clubs and players to address the idea that this is unacceptable and remove it from the game. But no, as it stands, Martin Taylor will serve the same ban as Jeremy Aliadiere got for bitch-slapping a Liverpool player that same afternoon. Thank you, the FA, the Premier League and all you bloated paté-munching FIFA/UEFA suits - I hope you're happy.

Get well, Eduardo. Soon, if possible, but fully at least.

UPDATE: Patrick Barclay in the Daily Telegraph says similar

* you will know that I rarely swear on my blog but I cannot bring myself to describe him as a 'footballer'.
** whose nickname is 'Tiny', I assume referring to his brain.

Ready For The Floor?

That gratuitous Hot Chip reference also serves to announce that we have ripped up our somewhat tired-looking carpets and had a fantastic baked oak wooden floor laid this week. The whole of the downstairs looks like a different house; Tom has done an awesome job, highly recommended! And, of course, I have taken my usual badly-focused, over-lit pictures:


Unfortunately, the beautiful new floor has since served to highlight the terrible state of our skirting, doors and woodwork. I sense a job coming on....

ONOZ, TEH BONOZ!!!111

Good grief...

U2 in 3D

So not only are they (still) utterly crap, but the IMAX now makes them bigger and the 3-D makes the buggers nearer. Never has the phrase "Don't stand so close to The Edge" been so apposite*.

* I'm here all week, try the soya protein-based meat-substitute cutlet

To My Lovely, Pregnant Wife

(xkcd again, he's very good...)

Tessellations

These rather put my origami X-wing (of which I was extremely proud) to complete and utter shame:

Tessellations

Astonishingly, they are all made from a single sheet of paper.

Are You Coming To Bed?

Yet again, xkcd right on the money:

xkcd #386

Overheard #36

One from this morning which left me chuckling gently:

"Ah, crisps - the breakfast of champions!"