NO to Director, Senior, Fellow, Lecturer, Officer, Manager, Administrator, Developer, Associate, Surveyor, Co-Ordinator, Technician

MAYBE to Secretary

YES to Assistant, Semi, Junior, Clerk, Temp

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-z2D9lo9-8

One of the things that is so interesting about contemporary US politicking is the passionate support that both parties receive in contravention of any reasonable justification for doing so. Healthy democratic culture or bitter stubbornness to the point of ruin? You decide.

From MC

http://englishrussia.com/?p=1542

"He's a pagan bowler hat-wearing justice machine with a secret identity. His servant is a violent extra-dimensional sportsman who eats rocks. They must survive a perilous journey across post-atomic North America!"

http://www.2000ad.org/thrillpitcher/?

Inspired by something I saw on satsu and windscale's incredible wiki:





A good honest, hard-working tobacco that loves it's children and only has to save up a little more before it can move out of the city and to that dream house in the suburbs. Smells faintly of spicy tomato. it also burns well. The taste doesn't hold up well to the other brands unfortuantely, but can be defaulted to without fear of social ostracism.

Perfect for: sitting and sharing a sexist joke or two with the workmen after a heavy bout of manual labour.

Smokeability: 3.5     Taste:2.5  



What's the point? Its like smoking Marlboro Lights when you can afford Reds. It's a tad smoother.

Perfect for: Smoking in the house, so not to offend the ladies.

Smokeability: 3     Taste: 1



Christ this is harsh. A seriously wet tobacco, it seems intent on driving an oily ball down to the back of your throat, then lodging it there. A lighter must be held in front of it almost permanently to prevent the embarrassment of it going out. It's taste is bearable anough, with a pint of Guiness in hand Only acceptable if one is engaged in a bout of psychological fisticuffs with a hurly-burly for the affections of a particularly hard-to-please lady-friend.

Perfect for: Working men's clubs, hoping that the local diesel is enough to wash it down to where it can do no more damage.

Smokeability: 0.5     Taste:2



The lion on the front belies this cheeky little number's staying power. Though one may need to kick things off with a simple batch of drum, you can smoke this all night without faltering. It's taste echoes the light touch of the silkworm, and is just harsh enough to feel.

Perfect for: 12 hour, irreconcilable Monopoly disputes, miner's strikes etc..

Smokeability: 5      Taste:4



And we come to the gentleman's choice. Its naturally dry,  so it can be whipped out whenever circumstances dictate, i.e.on the culmination of a merger with an impressionable foreigner etc. A sweet palate, eminently chainable. And it's cheaper than most regular brands! If only it were more widely available.

Perfect for: 'Wherever particular people congregate'.

Smokeability: 4       Taste:4

If more politicians had been like this man here, I might consider voting.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ5S-_RLddQ

Incidentally, windscale, Im probably not free May bank holiday weekend (remind me when it is again?) as work is an unforgiving bitch-goddess from which there is no escape. But I might be able to sway something. What was your intention?

ADAM. STOP WATCHING DAVID LYNCH FILMS UNTIL 5 O CLOCK IN THE MORNING. IT IS TOO MUCH.

Another dream update...

I was some kind of black coated punk/ 60s French nihilist (?) and moving around this totalitarian commercial park with a dfs, asda, burger king and cinema.. My mode of transportation was a bright yellow underground system which linked the stores, with a train which kind of slid to the side once it entered a station, exposing the tunnel ahead, though thinking about it now the station itself seemed to shrink to fit the train as well.  Having forgotten my coat from a previous visit to Asda (?), which I can barely remember, I boarded the train as Alan Moore narrated certain facts to me about the Cuban revolution (the fact that they had their own state approved trade unions, and as such the rate of sick workers was very high etc..) I was so thinking so hard I didnt notice that the doors had closed, and I was crushed to death as the train dragged me along the side of the tunnel. I saw my death from the angle of a security camera in the tunnel.

So I hold great hopes for going to London today, what with all that Tube hopping and all.

I may have broken Games Workshop's monopoly on spray paint...acheiving the same result with a two pound can as I have done with a 6 pound can. Plastics have come out well, leads are lookin good, even better as a first layer of solid colour. Will report back laterwith further developments.

...HAS IT BECOME SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE FOR IT TO BE SO FUCKING COLD IN LATE MARCH.

Smooth move, winter.

http://www.capsule.org.uk/Coming_Up/177/64.aspx

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Tip: Dont try and tackle postmodernism and historiographical method at 3 in the morning. Just dont.

http://revolutionsf.com/article.html?id=953.html

He writes:
"I have sometimes wondered how much the advent of steam influenced Victorian ballad poetry and romantic prose."

Which I read as:
"I have sometimes wondered how much the advent of steam-influenced Victorian ballad poetry and romantic prose."

Oh god no....those fools...they done it...they gone and done it...

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/11032007/325/technical-hitch-delays-skynet-launch.html

Dream update: Dreamed of finding stacks of Auteurs merchandise in Rock City, which had some hilariously faux-Victorian slogan on them. Said merchandise consisted of posters and variously sized plant pots (?). I gathered a number of them for close friends, before the sound techs carted them away.

Then I was watching a film in which a black man had to help a mob boss (played by James Caan) get out of a city. James Caan's method was hiding in the back of the unknowing black guy's car, dressed in a blonde wig and a skirt. (which made him look exactly like one of the bar staff at City.) The black man was also going out with the mob boss's daughter, and got shouted at by a number of very skinny,camp neo Nazis, who berated him for taking 'good honest white boys' away from them.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070301/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq

Three cheers for euphemism.
Elsewhere:

http://www.gamespot.com/news/6166560.html?tag=topslot;title;1&om_act=convert&om_clk=topslot

"We are very excited to be working with Games Workshop on the first-ever MMO game based on the Warhammer 40,000 universe. Our agreement calls for worldwide rights, so we definitely plan to launch the game across North America, Europe, and Asia. We are very early in development, so it would be premature to comment on potential ratings, but we plan to build a game that both Warhammer 40,000 fans and MMO gamers will be excited to play--one that is true to the rich universe Games Workshop has built--with scalable depth of characters and worlds that MMO fans have come to expect."

Frankly, I fail to see any reason why I shouldn't buy a harmonica.