Honor is like the hawk...

I want to go to the cinema and see a film that will have the trailer for 300 on before it. Not just would that mean I get to look at a load of buff muscley Greek guys in the nip, but I might just get to see the still from the imaginary Watchmen film that has been thrown into it. Picture from that Ain't It Cool News website.

Stop being so fierce!

Tasmanian Devils are very fierce animals living in Tasmania. They are so fierce that they fight other Tasmanian Devils continuously. Unfortunately, when they bite each other they transmit a bacteria that causes grotesque tumours to grow in the face, preventing the victim from feeing and leading to starvation.

Scientists have tried a number of ways to combat the scourge of Devil facial tumour disease, thus far without much success. There is a real likelihood that Tasmanian Devils could soon become extinct, victims of their own ferocity.

He have a round head

World's greatest website found, again.

Kangaroo

Noah's Ark

Israel

Islam

HI DERE I RUN COUNRTY

An apparently non-existent man has become trade minister of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Garrison Games 2

I mentioned previously the kerfuffle over the English rugby team coming to play in Croke Park. Much of the controversy centred on whether it would be appropriate for God Save The Queen to be sung in a temple of Irish nationalism.

Thanks to my learned colleague Wood, I realise that this issue may not arise in the future. Some David Kitchens fellow has started a petition on the 10 Downing Street website to replace God Save The Queen with a far less offensive tune: Gold by Spandau Ballet.

Thus far over 5,000 of his fellow Britons have signed: Gold Anthem

"Quit your jibba jabber, Time Fool!"

I am meant to be i) writing a research proposal ii) reading about the goals of different political actors in Morocco iii) writing a zine for Frank's APA (so that you will have intellectually stimulating material to read here in the future iv) attending to many other important tasks. Instead I am reading MR. T vs. THE CYBERMEN. It is the ultimate battle between the Robots of Silver and the Man of Gold.

Do you want to play the Book Game?

There is this game called The Book Game, in which people make up first lines for books and then try to guess the real first line from among all the made up ones. If you fancy playing it with mentalists from the Internet, go here: The Book Game. You will need a LiveJournal account to play, but such things can be arranged.

Garrison Games

I live under a stone, so I missed the chortlesome story about a man protesting against foreign games while wearing a t-shirt for a foreign team who play a foreign game. In a way, this was our get a brain morans. [picture from Daily Telegraph article 'Demonstrators fight losing battle']

In other news, Sinn Féin's Ard Fheis has unanimously voted to change the name of Merrion Road to Bobby Sands Avenue, this being the street where the British Embassy is located. "What is good enough for Tehran should be good enough for Dublin," John Crowley of Armagh is quoted as saying in The Irish Times.

Concert: Acid Mothers Temple

By now you know the score - Acid Mothers Temple are the crazy ass hairy Japanese guys who play space rock wig out music. I too know the score. They came, they played, they rocked. One of the tracks they played was recognised by me as 'Pink Lady Lemonade' - which is interesting, as I do not seem to have it on any of the recordings I have of this great band.

I picked up a couple of records at the show. Electric Heavyland was electric and heavy, while Starless and Bible Black Sabbath (a homage to the Sab) rocks like the proverbial motherfucker and demands to be turned up to call-the-cops volume levels.

OMG PHEAR TEH CUET

The BBC reports that two pairs of little orphaned baby orangutangs and baby tigers have become inseparable friends: In pictures: Baby animal love story

Sadly, the cuteness cannot last, as when tiger cubs reach three months old they turn carnivore, and so could end up eating their friends.