Category: Random

Over at Slate at the moment is a fascinating article about The Pledge of Allegiance: In fact, the founders opposed the institutionalization of religion. They kept the Constitution free of references to God. The document mentions religion only to guarantee that godly belief would never be used as a qualification for holding officeóa departure from many existing state constitutions. That the founders made erecting a church-state wall their first priority when they added the Bill of Rights to the Constitution reveals the importance they placed on maintaining what Isaac Kramnick and R. Laurence Moore have called a “godless Constitution.”

This morning’s gentle hang-over has been eased by a lie-in and an ice-cold coke. But more serious hangover sufferers this morning should consider the cures at hairytongue.com – particular favourites include placing ice-packs on your nipples, listen to pounding music and then running to the loo for a number two, giving your grandfather crack and then eating him, and eating a microwaved melange of rice krispies, milk, cheese and chilli powder…

Just been to a big gay party. Am drunk. Nice people were there. Was taken by particularly nice person. A couple of people hit on me and everyone else was thinking about it, I reckon. Am golden god. Am also drunk. Lewisham is weird. Huge positive vibes to everyone at said party. Particularly James for taking me to said party. And to Dan and Tony, who I’ll probably never meet again.

Without the aid of Kung-Tunes you would not have known that

I can’t believe my life has come to this – bragging about knowing Matt Jones to my own goddam cult. I feel all mucky and corrupt. Ah – and I see the backlash has begun. Soon all the world will move at the speed of blog…

So I got an e-mail from my ISP today – and boy are they stroppy with me. Apparently on some recent weekends, I’ve been connected to the internet for twelve hours in a day. Apparently I have to learn how to “use the internet more effectively” or they’ll cut me off. I hate them.

Sometime in the last few weeks, someone did a search on this site for you’re shit in bed, which I would like to say narrows it down a bit, but can’t.

There’s a huge and fascinating article by Derek Powazek over on DesignForCommunity.com at the moment that I really want to respond to, but feel that I probably shouldn’t until 1) Cal and I have finished Barbelith and 2) I’ve had more time to digest it thoroughly. In the meantime, why not discuss the article?

So I’ve got my thirtieth birthday in less than a month and I was planning to go to San Francisco with Davo about now, but I ran out of money at exactly the wrong time, so that didn’t happen. But now some people I know are talking about Burning Man – which frankly I’d love to go to… But the money, oh the money… Everything’s so confusing and expensive…

Grant Morrison’s new project, The Filth looks like it’s kicking into gear much faster than most of his work. The new previews over at PopCultureShock reveal that it’s a book about the people that ‘wipe the arse of the world’.