Twitter

31Aug08

Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows its users to send and read other users’ updates (otherwise known as tweets), which are text-based posts of up to 140 characters in length.
On the top right-hand side of the page you will be able to see a wee Twitter section containing my most recent Tweets. I’m not very good [...]

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Tags: micro blogging, tweets, twitter

Daruma

31Aug08

 
Daruma dolls (達磨), also known as dharma dolls, are hollow and round Japanese wish dolls with no arms or legs, modelled after Bodhidharma, the founder and first patriarch of Zen. Typical colors are red (most common), yellow, green, and white. The doll has a face with a moustache and beard, but its eyes only contain the color white.
Using black ink, one [...]

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Tags: bodhidharma, buddha, daruma, daruma doll, dharma, japan, wishes

Guga

28Aug08

Guga on Sula Sgeir. Via Malcom Murray
 
“The ile is full of wild fowls, and when the fowls has their birds ripe, men out of the parish of Ness in Lewis sail and tarry there seven or eight days and to fetch with them home their boatfull of dry wild fowls with wild fowl feathers” – [...]

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Sea Bear

24Aug08

 
Reykjavik Iceland’s violinist with her voice in the clouds: Gudbjrg Hlin Gudmundsdttir and friends Sindri, Kjartan, Orn are the inner triangle of Seabear along with Eiki, Orvar, Gudni and Driguitar. Seabear features members of Sigur Ros, mum and stage members of Benni Hemm Hemms Band the other Icelandic band on morr music. Tiny and gigantic, [...]

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Tags: gigs, Music, sea bear

Biden

24Aug08

 
The lamest of all lame blog posts but here’s hoping Barack’s new VeePee works out just fine and we get to see him tear ol’ McCain a new one on a semi-regular basis over the next few months.
I like him already.
Have a triple dunt…
 

 

(Gotta love his facial expression [...]

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Tags: america, barack obama, joe biden, Politics, U.S. elections

Rum

24Aug08

 
Rum may be the greatest alcoholic beverage known to man.
From the readily available Havana 3 Year Old to the rather lovely Angostura 1919  and Appleton Estate 8 Year Olds and beyond it’s all gooooooooood….
The last two nights, however, I’ve had to endure the over-zealous marketing gurus and branding gangs of Bacardi. Fiecrely anti-Castro, Bacardi has faced criticism and legal problems [...]

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Brautigan

24Aug08

 
After my ol’ pal Buk, I have a deep love for the works of Richard Brautigan.
Here’s one for ya. Knock yourself out with more here.
 
Boo, Forever
Spinning like a ghost
on the bottom of a
top,
I’m haunted by all
the space that I
will live without
you. 
.

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Symfonia Pieśni Załosnych

24Aug08

 
Symphony No. 3

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First

21Aug08

 
Another rosette for future top ram and my namesake. This time from the Carloway show.
Aw yeah!
(Note to self: living vicariously through the success of an animal I merely helped bring into the world probably says a lot about my life at the moment…)

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Tags: lamb, prize, ram, rosette, tupp

Gonzo

17Aug08

 

 
From Oscar-wining director Alex Gibney and producer Graydon Carter comes a probing look into the uncanny life of national treasure and gonzo journalism inventor Dr. Hunter S. Thompson. A fast moving, wildly entertaining documentary with an iconic soundtrack, the film addresses the major touchstones in Thompson’s life-his intense and ill fated relationship with the Hell’s [...]

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Tags: Film, gonzo, hunter s thompson, movies