Hopstretch

Happy Birthday Ari. Seconded on the miss you part!

Where it will spark a 40-page thread, packed with recommendations for the Cao Ni Ma Audio Shabi 250.

I'm going to neck half a bottle of wine and give it another go tonight. Though chances are I'll give up half way through, finish the rest of the bottle and listen to the new Andrew Bird album yet again instead.

Ballotine of guinea fowl. Pork chop with sage and mushroom.

I like fucking better.

For Greg.

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Take the painkiller. Cycle on your bicycle. Leave all this misery behind.

Wow. That sucks a lot more than I expected.

OMG OMG OMG! Me too.

Happy Birthday!

The Joshua Tree came out at exactly the right time -- I was 17 and stuck at an all-male boarding school in the middle of nowhere, with nothing to do but play rugby and take cold showers -- so that's the one that's really stuck with me. (Have also got a weird soft spot for Zooropa as it was one of the only cassettes in the fucked-up VW van that I drove around Europe with a couple of university mates in the summer of 1993. Got us from San Fermin all the way to the Oktoberfest, although Daddy did not (in fact) pay for our crashed car when we hit a goat, then a tree, in the Algarve.) Oops! Listening to Dinosaur Jr. -- Without A Sound

Thought about you today when I saw this in the paper: [emoji6]

Band of Horses -- Everything All The Time

Dum Dum Girls -- End Of Daze

Happy Birthday!

Cut Copy -- In Ghost Colours

Probably a South African, we have three distinct usages. "I'll do it now." -- I'm totally not going to do it. "I'll do it just now." -- I might do it later, if I feel like it. "I'll do it now now." -- OK, it's actually on my priority list.

I've never had a flat tire in all my years of driving. But the thought of "going naked" still makes me nervous.

You're a funny guy, Brent. I like you. That's why I'm going to kill you last.

Need new tires on the X5 and thinking about taking the opportunity to finally ditch run flats, which flat out suck. (Particularly with 315 rears. Tramlining? Er, yeah a bit.) But I don't have any kind of spare, because BMW. If I just keep a 12V compressor and a couple of cans of repair goo in the car, am I still being a responsible road user?

The House of Love -- S/T

Happy birthday!

"I'm sick of these motherfucking snakes up my motherfucking nose!"

That's racist!