I love the look Long Live Vulgargrad

Continuation on a theme

Mazaltov! Thanks Trevor

 
Thanks to Trevor, You got me through all kinds of shit

My Friend Gianni

This my friend Gianni cool guy, great player.
An offering from Badalato.

Why does leather shrink?

Something that has been exercising my mind recently is the question does leather shrink?
I would have to answer in the affirmative.
 
Yes leather shrinks! Case in point are the eight leather Jackets in my wardrobe. I use to have a 46 cm that shrunk, so did my 48 cm. I am now looking to a 50cm. [...]

Here one for thought

Yelling at little old ladies never felt so right.
It’s the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have others do unto you.” It is the ultimate norm of high morality in our culture. Sure there are other morals by which we live, but this one phrase embodies our most cherished value: that we should [...]

Still here?

I havn’t posted for a while. I have been getting myself in to other trouble.
I am not over posting but it seemed like everyone was blogging so I thought I would give the world a break from my thoughts.
Meanwhile back at the GFC, a lot of my friends are starting to struggle. One has just [...]

Here’s one for an interesting google search

If you like surfing up oddities then here is one.
Click here

The Pilo Family Circus Review From Shelf Monkey Blogkey

The Pilo Family Circus by Will Elliot – review

The Pilo Family Circus
by Will Elliott
Underland Press, 2009

Who here hates clowns? Raise your hand if you find their frantic capering less hilarious and more creepy, their makeup less laugh-inducing and more terrifying. And what’s with that car, endlessly vomiting forth all manner of the greasepaint monkeys?

Not for [...]

Insanity

Albert Einstein once said “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results”.
Thanks Mark

Beyond the war hero

Beyond the war hero
Bernard-Henri Levy embarks on an adventure of anti-Nazi dialectics. First stop: Tom Cruise

The release of “Operation Valkyrie” first in the Unites States and Germany and now in France is without question a good thing. Because it’s always a pleasure to see the world honour its heroes. Riveting as it is however, this [...]

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo

The black marketeers of Bahnhof Zoo
Karl Schlögel looks at the molecular movements that brought down the Berlin Wall.

Looking at “historical moments” renders everything else invisible. The brilliant light radiating from such moments blinds or at least desensitises us to other things that may have happened. One need only look in the newspapers from 1988 and [...]

Zizek, The Symbolic Order

Zizek, The Symbolic Order
dtomolson Mar 28, 2009 6:40 AM
The Symbolic Order is the realm of language, signs, culture, and law. It includes official institutions such as schools, political parties, and Churches; as well as quasi-official institutions like codified and non-codified social norms, i.e. handshakes, winks etc. The Symbolic Order is a chain of signs that is [...]

Get Well Soon

To my friend Jillybean, get well soon!
I am sure that leon misses you.
Bummer about the Chaplain actually doing what they do.

Let me ride on the Wall Of Death

Wall Of Death
Written by Richard Thompson
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
Let me ride on the Wall Of Death one more time
You can waste your time on the other rides
This is the nearest to being alive
Oh let me take my chances on the Wall Of Death
You can go with the crazy [...]