Not a whole lot happening around this blog, but a few things are happening in my life outside of academia. The first is that Tiana and I are getting booted from our flat here in Nottingham, effective 18 August. It’s nothing we did to cause this; apparently there are some tensions between our landlady and the letting agency. Everybody in our building has been asked to leave. In fact, our neighbors above us have to leave about a month sooner than we do. So, we are currently on the hunt for flats or small rentable houses. I’m not sure if there is a proper word for the latter, but we would prefer that.
LOST season 5 completed a couple months ago now, but in the meantime, we have been watching Freaks and Geeks (only on episode 8) as well as In Treatment (only on episode 10 of season 1). We both really enjoy these thus far. We attempted to get into Mad Men, but after roughly 8 episodes, we’re not really feeling it. After finishing the entirety of The Wire towards the end of last year, our standards have gotten a bit higher, I suppose.
Meanwhile, one of Tiana’s friends and ex- coworkers was in town this past week visiting. It seems like they had a good time. She left yesterday, and they rented a car which Tiana turned in today, but as we were about to get into the car this morning to drive it back to the rental agency, we discovered that one of the small windows in the back had been busted out and there was glass everywhere. And we didn’t take out the extra 10 quid a day for insurance, so we have to pay a large portion of the deductable. Pretty infuriating, but what can you do?
If we can get our stuff together (and quickly!), we are hoping to visit our friends Rusty and Lauren in Scotland later this month before they leave to go back to the States.
I’ve been reading a lot of fun stuff lately, but all for my studies, which I will save for another post at some point in the future.
Via Matt, here are some anagramical (?) variations on my full name: (i’m posting ones with bad words too because they’re funny–although if you’ve seen the Vagina Monologues then this word has been ‘reclaimed’ for ‘good’ or something)
Easel Runic Tie
Lease Rice Unit
Easier Cunt Lie
Realise Cue Tin
Sac Uterine Lie
Lunatic See Ire
Italic See Rune
Sauce Liner Tie
Care Isle Unite
Saucier Eel Tin
Cease Urine Lit – yes, down with the Urine Literature!
Latencies I Rue – any internet gamers know how much latencies indeed rue
A Slice Reunite – reminds me of a scene in this version of Alice in Wonderland – children of the 80′s will know that this was the best Alice in Wonderland adaptation
Reliance Suite
Cauterise Line
Okay, clearly the best part of this was, from some weird memory association I just had, discovering that that particular Alice in Wonderland mini-series adapation had finally come to DVD! –although, apparently it’s been out for two years. We had taped that ourselves on our VHS recorder and I would watch it in the late 80′s. I used to have dreams about it, especially the jaberwocky scenes as well as the freaky White Queen–Carol Channing!–who turned into a sheep. Sammy Davis Jr. as the caterpillar? Telly Savalas as the Cheshire Cat? Ringo Star as the Mock Turtle??? (I didn’t even know who that was when I was five years old.) Ernest Borgnine as the Lion, Pat Morita as the Horse, John Stamos as The Messenger, Jonathan Winters as Humpty-Dumpty, and… Scott Baio as Pat the Guinea Pig? I could go on. But I won’t.
If you google “rad things” the first search result is my blog. If you were feeling lucky with that term, then “hi!”
To all the Fergie fans looking for something substantial: sorry. You are the ones finding my blog the most from search terms in the last quarter, which is sad.
To those looking for “Ezekiel 4:12 bread”, thanks for having a sense of humour and reading the full context.
Searching for “nazbo”, this humble blog will appear as its second search result, most likely due to Ben Myer’s ability to have a theological slashdot/digg effect (or the lesser-known “wanged”) whenever he links to anything. To coin a simple, almost too-obvious phrase for this effect: Myered. Do with that what you will.
"I believe if there's any kind of God it wouldn't be in any of us, not you or me but just this little space in between. If there's any kind of magic in this world it must be in the attempt of understanding someone sharing something. I know, it's almost impossible to succeed but who cares really? The answer must be in the attempt."
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