Do you get the feeling that Jesse Helms was just stubborn enough to hang on until the 4th of July to die? It seems like something he'd do.

Well, not a lot really. The National were awesome on Tuesday night. Was a bit of a last minute affair, but really good fun, and I was so glad jofox15 could come with me. These guys are on Emusic, so if you subscribe, give em a whirl. Loved the vibe the band gave off - they looked like they were the guys to do the sound check and were clearly having a ball. At one point the lead singer stared out into the crowd who were singing along and having fun, and his top lip appeared quiver just for a second. I don't know, but I get the feeling they are new to the 'rockstar' thing, and it was lovely to see that kind of recognition that they'd made it.

Other stuff? Errm. Operation Join Gym and Do Stuff is going well. Have been for a swim 4/5 days this week, so that's good. It was decidedly busy today, with three other people in the pool at the same time! Gosh! That's precisely why I like it there. I don't like busy swimming pools, and am happy to sacrifice size for silence.

Due to lack of LJ and FB, this week I have found some other internet stuff to obessess about - shopping for a tent for the Leeds Festival. I may well have jinxed it as it's not even 100% that I have a place, but I have been marvelling at the wonderous varieties of tents available and basically spending more time than is sensible thinking about camping supplies. Do I want an LED headtorch, and if so should it be windup or battery powered, 22 LEDs or just the one, do I need red LEDs for night vision? I think it's a sign that I need a life, but in the meantime I will check my ebay bids on a pop-up tent for £20 (one careful use) and possibly ponder about if I would have been better off with a blackout tent or indeed one with build in LED light system. IT'S ALL SO LOVELY! *ahem!*

Current Mood: Fridayness

( Conquistadors )

Happy Independence Day to all the Americans on my list...but, more important than that, it's Friday, and you know what that means, right? Yes, OK, that, and...? OK, yeah, that too, forgot about that...well, OK, whatever, here's the Friday Pix!



( The World Is Bigger Than The USA, I Looked It Up )

Current Music: Sister Machine Gun - Influence

Has anyone else read the "Reluctant Fundamentalist"?  and if so what is your take on the ending because I think mine is completely different to the implication of the back page review so I'd be really interested to know.  
Of course if anyone wants to read the Reluctant Fundamentalist I have a copy so you can do so and then hopefully put me out of my confusion....

Larry Harmon, who turned the character Bozo the Clown into a show business staple that delighted children for more than a half-century, died Thursday of congestive heart failure. He was 83.

• 11:04 on coaching course. shocked at people's lack of introspection. Bored.

Is it my imagination or just me being unused to the stuff but meat is just scarily more filling than other protein products isn't it?
( oh my god she's going to become one of them obsessive bad eating ninnies.... ) Although that may mean a sudden increase in the carnivorousness of me if I'm going to loose the layer of bulk I've aquired. Nothing fits, and to me I just look bulky in pictures I've seen taken recently ( fraochyou may have presented the straw that broke the camels back....).  Since the scales tell  me I'm carrying around the equivalent of an extra 4 bags of potatoes compared to what I was 10 years ago and that was nearly 4 bags more than when I was a 1st year at Uni it's hardly a surprise but I can't get my head round  that's only 1.5 dress sizes.  There is no logic in this lard malarky.
A further irritation is the realisation that the more attention one pays to ones weight the more you seem to put on/the harder it is to loose.  I think this occurred to me a few years ago when I lived with a permanent dieter but I thought at the time it was just one of my crazy ideas. 

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One from earlier this year:

(C)2008 Magnum Opus Press and Jon Hodgson.

Up until very recently the only people to see this image had been myself (would have been hard to paint otherwise), James Wallis, Dave Morris and Oliver Johnson, possibly the writers who worked on the new edition - serpentstar and cavalorn, and additionally the lucky winner of the Edinburgh Conpulsion charity auction lot which comprised the only existing print of this piece.  The auction was won by the very generous and handsome Mr Gregor Hutton Esq (boxninja) of Box Ninja.  Sadly his unique item has now been thoroughly devalued as the artwork goes public. ;)

If you are interested there is more about the forthcoming reissue of this classic 80s British rpg here.

Tags: art by jon, dragon warriors
Current Music: Sigur Ros