January 2010
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“Let me not to a marriage of true minds
Admit impediments. Love is not love...”
– Shakespeare, Sonnet 116, which I accidentally memorised while trying to help Cat with her dramatic recitation last night.
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Natasha Not Fail
Sister (18b): Why do poor people wear thin clothes? Don't they know it's cold at night?
Me (21): Tasha!
Brother (20): You're so stupid.
Sister (18a): No comment.
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Paul Bettany in Eight Minutes or Less →
On a Paul Bettany roll. I blame him for sounding so clever and interesting in his interviews. Plus, he loved Fantastic Mr Fox. I thought it was the best film of 2009 too, Paul. ;P
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“Charles Darwin’s ideas would have been more broadly accepted had he had an...”
– Paul Bettany on playing St Michael with a machine gun then the man who came up with the Theory of Evolution.
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“Tablet’s edge is keen enough to cut between worlds.”
– Apple Tablet Rumours Other Blogs are Afraid to Publish (via crunchgear)
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Hey Oscar Wilde! It's Clobberin' Time! →
Artists drawing authors. What ho, good fun!
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WatchI’m Here on Vimeo (via Vimeo)
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“I dislike fatal women. They reek of mass production.”
– Ngaio Marsh’s Roderick Alleyn, Artists in Crime
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Wealth and Dissection
Brother (11): [details a implausible and likely illegal scheme to extort money from parents and classmates alike] . . . then we'll be rich! I'll be rich. You'll be rich. I'll be rich.
Me (21): What about twin sisters dear?
Brother (11): Huh?
Cousin (10): When I'm a doctor, I'll cut up people. It's too mean to cut up animals. Poor bunnies.
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“I am very short in midfield at the moment so even I am trying to...”
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This Is Anfailed →
Sorry, Liverpool fans, but it couldn’t be helped.
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Literary Smackdown! →
ON BLOGGER: The Blue Castle vs Ladies of Missalonghi—same plot (shy, downtrodden thirty-ish spinster falls ill then in love with mysterious scruffy stranger in a town populated almost entirely by relatives…
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A Dedicated Footballer of Fashion →
ON BLOGGER: For my SOCIO 10 class I am doing a Football & Sociology series. Managed a ramble of Coolwhip entitled A Dedicated Footballer of Fashion found here…
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“To wander now is my abode;
To rest,—to rest would be
A privilege of...”
– Emily Dickinson, CXIII
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Bob Dylan Thomas →
ON BLOGGER: I always get Dylan Thomas and Bob Dylan mixed up, but no longer. I picked up Adventures in the Skin Trade on a whim and it has given me a wondrous mixture of dream and nightmare…
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Where the Wild Things Are
Me (21): Max kicking that fence is just like you.
Brother (11): CRAZY, I DON'T HAVE TANTRUMS.
Cousin (10): And I don't kick fences.
Me (21): Your Littlest Petshops then.
Cousin (10): No, I don't kick my toys.
Me (21): All right.
Cousin (10): I kick people.
Brother (11): Don't I know it.
Narrator: The hero Max runs away from home dressed in his fox suit...
Brother (11): What a stupid freak! I'm leaving.
Cousin (10): What a stupid freak! He forgot utensils.
Me (21): Utensils?
Cousin (10): Now what's he going to cook with?
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