Photography Idol

I am one of the finalists in The Press Pacific Pathways Photography competition. See the Gallery of finalists online - you can vote by txt or pop into the ChristChurch Cathedral for a look and a vote.

This is mine, Queen Victoria's bum. To vote for this photograph, TXT the code 'AB7' to 3444.

And my boy SS is also a finalist.

Junebugs

I am rather fond of this nutbar Ascot hat. It probably helps that the girl wearing it is chocolate box lovely ...

calls to mind Christopher Marlowe - "all they that love not tobacco and boys are
fools".

Been watching the Royle Family - check out some of their choicest bon mots:
Dave Best: 'Ey, I'm rough today me me guts are well off, I had a bad pint last night.
Jim Royle: I bet you washed them down with a few more, though, didn't you.
Antony Royle: How d'ya know if its a bad pint?
Dave Best: Cos you can shit through the eye of a needle.
Jim Royle: Where did you go?
Dave Best: Pear tree.
Jim Royle: Bloody hell, you don't wanna drink in there.
Dave Best: Well, I know that now, don't I?
Jim Royle: Bloody hell, He doesn't clean his pumps him.
Antony Royle: No, actually the lagers all right.
Jim Royle: How would you know, soft lad?
Antony Royle: Dad, I'm 15.
Jim Royle: 'Ey! listen if I ever catch you in The Feathers I'll clip you round the bloody ear, you do not shit on your own doorstep!
Dave Best: I nearly did last night, I couldn't get the key in quick enough.

Pimp names - Mine is Fine Ass donna Slither & Shane is Pimptastic shane Trump. Fo sho.


Hot t-shirts - yup it is a perennial theme. I am taken with Threadless. Particularly:
Communist Party, Meat is Murder and Chinese Peaches.

I think I better check this out if just to see young George Michael from Arrested Development again.

Yet another intriguing graphic novel.

Of course Sapphire and Steel is on Wikipedia.

I like Tulip's perfume Commes des Garcons - what ingredients! Cardamom Oil, Coriander Oil, Geranium Oil, Nutmeg Oil, Cinnamon Bark Oil, Clovebud, Labdanum essence, Styrax, Cedarwood, Cut Hay, Olibanum essence, Black Pepper, Sandalwood, Rose, Honey. No wonder it smells so fracking good!

Last but not least, my attempt at a LOLCat

Melange Melee

OK, another heaving round up of interesting things on the Interweb (including this bullet bra from Rita Sue:

BOOK STUFF

Vivienne Westwood's manifesto on ART - from the Hay on Wye Festival

Bookman Beattie - great New Zealand book blog.

How to write by Philip Matthews - useful advice from The Listener.



MUSIC

Hallelujah - the Leonard Cohen song. I was obsesssing about in on Saturday and look at what this wonderful blogger has prepared. Jeff Buckley and Rufus Wainwright - wonderful boys.

Radio 1 Mash up
Radio Zero

Dark matter - Guardian article on the joy of Nick Cave: "Cave, as a poetic craftsman, provides all the enjambment, ellipsis and onomatopoeia that anyone could wish for. A word on eroticism and the dreadful dolour of knowing not only that all passion is spent - but also that you're overdrawn. If Cave were to be typified as a lyricist of blood, guts and angst, it would be a grave mistake. He stands as one of the great writers on love of our era. Each Cave love song is at once perfumed with yearning, and already stinks of the putrefying loss to come. For Cave, consummation is always exactly that."


FUNNIES

Irony Central - a highly amusing take on parenthood. Thanks to MoMo.

Am a wee bit obsessed by the LOLs:
LOLCats
I can has cheezburger
LOL80s



ASSORTED WHATNOTS


Bettie Page wigs at the wonderful Rita Sue

My Heritage - find out who you look like. Be freaked by the results.

Enter this photography comp The Press Pacific Pathways Photography Competition - Christchurch is our home, Pacific Pathways tells the stories of how each of us came to be here, what we brought and what we created.

The Food Pornographer blog

Quizilla

I am Ash, from the "Evil Dead" trilogy. I'm the guy with the...chainsaw.
Take this quiz!


More Quizzes

Thanks to Morte Fleur (she was Dr. Herbert West, from "Reanimator." He he)

Some more fun quizzes to try at Quizilla including
Which Popular Anime Girl are you?
Which Malcolm McDowell character are you?