Toadfish Monastery

Peanut butter sandwich

Pepsi, a significantly better sugar and caffeine mix than Coca-Cola, though possibly even more amoral and corrupt (they employed Richard Nixon, after all...)

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus

In the words of the Bloodhound Gang:

Quote"We gonna drop this next bomb for a money makin' playa that ain't with us no mo."
"Yeah, Notorious B.I.G."
"Hell no, we gonna do this for a gangbanging thug that never seen it comin'."
"Yeah, Tupac Shakur."
Nah bitch, I'm talkin' 'bout motherfuckin' Falco and shit.

Application forming.

About 400 BC.

Give or take 200 years.

I've been mocking the panic on Twitter.  Check out the #swineflu and #baconflu hashtags for a laugh, if you have the spare time.

xkcd really sums it up:

Because religion (or at least their ethnocentric variation of it) is about sneering at other peoples misery in order to feel better about one's own relative worth and status.

Incidentally, the rumours in Mexico are that the death toll could be up to four times the official number.  This is only rumour, but it comes from a teacher I know who lives and works in the country.  Because Mexico's facilities are not the greatest ever, and because there is a very poor peasant/urban working class and because of crowded conditions in some of the world's biggest slums, the feeling is that alot more deaths and infections have taken place but have not been confirmed, or were contributing factors in the death and so administratively shuffled away.

Niewert is fantastic.  Do you read his blog, Orcinus?  Alot of the material cited in that helped form my end of year terrorism paper on the "Patriot movement" in the US (in the context of "new terrorism").

Warfare and Society in Imperial Rome
European warfare 1494-1660
Darkness at Dawn - The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
Twilight (urgh)

The Cure - Killing An Arab

IMO opinion, their best song, probably because Camus inspired it and I like him far more than The Cure.

Rewriting my CV.
Reading Twilight.
Taking notes down for another writing project.

Today?  Nothing.

Yesterday I got back from London, signed up to a temp agency and answered several dozen emails that had stacked up in my absence.

I might have read the first book, but if I did, it obviously didn't leave much of an impression on me since I cannot even remember for sure.

Obviously since its name is Mexican flu, it is spread by Mexicans.  And pigs.  Mexican pigs.  

Of course, the anti-immigration race-baiters have been linking foreigners to diseases for, well...forever, practically.  I don't think they really understand how people go abroad and have holidays.  Or, you know, do work in a foreign country.  Or have relatives there.  Or are dual nationality.  Etc etc ad infinitum.

I turned off the radio about 4 years ago.  Give or take.

I might turn it back on some day, but I doubt it.