| My my meme-age |
[Nov. 24th, 2008|10:29 pm] |
A meme of DQs ... if I can figure out how to do it ...
each answer must start with the same letter .... hmmm
WHAT IS YOUR NAME: minmorton
BOY NAME: Matthew
4 LETTER WORD: More
GIRL NAME: Miriam
OCCUPATION: museum events officer (as was)
A COLOR: magenta
SOMETHING YOU WEAR: mittens
BEVERAGE: milk
FOOD: marmite
SOMETHING FOUND IN A BATHROOM: mirror
A PLACE: Market Hill
REASON FOR BEING LATE: motorway accident
SOMETHING YOU SHOUT: Moron! |
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| Remembrance Sunday |
[Nov. 9th, 2008|06:13 pm] |
Break of Day in the Trenches
The darkness crumbles away.
It is the same old druid Time as ever,
Only a live thing leaps my hand,
A queer sardonic rat,
As I pull the parapet's poppy
To stick behind my ear.
Droll rat, they would shoot you if they knew
Your cosmopolitan sympathies.
Now you have touched this English hand
You will do the same to a German
Soon, no doubt, if it be your pleasure
To cross the sleeping green between.
It seems you inwardly grin as you pass
Strong eyes, fine limbs, haughty athletes,
Less chanced than you for life,
Bonds to the whims of murder,
Sprawled in the bowels of the earth,
The torn fields of France.
What do you see in our eyes
At the shrieking iron and flame
Hurled through still heavens ?
What quaver - what heart aghast?
Poppies whose roots are in man's veins
Drop, and are ever dropping;
But mine in my ear is safe -
Just a little white with the dust. (CW, 103-4)
- Isaac Rosenberg -
I liked the idea of the white poppy - I didn't manage to buy my white poppy this year - although I've finally found the website - but next year I will order them and I will wear red and white together. |
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| Upgrade good ... |
[Nov. 7th, 2008|09:33 pm] |
I spotted this on Mcookies' website
Well - actually I took an earlier version of the test - and it rated me as a nerd wannabe - and I was totally disgusted (unless nerd = science and geek = arts but I don't think that's true ....) and thought I'd try the upgrade ... I like being a nerd god .... |
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| To Meme or not to Meme ... that is the Question |
[Nov. 3rd, 2008|09:11 pm] |
Meme! When you see this, post a bit of Shakespeare... (stole this not from a Livejournal Friend but from a blog I enjoy reading from time to time)
I would love to see Ralph Fiennes do this:
SABELLA
'Save your honour!
Exeunt ISABELLA, LUCIO, and Provost
ANGELO
From thee, even from thy virtue!
What's this, what's this? Is this her fault or mine?
The tempter or the tempted, who sins most?
Ha!
Not she: nor doth she tempt: but it is I
That, lying by the violet in the sun,
Do as the carrion does, not as the flower,
Corrupt with virtuous season. Can it be
That modesty may more betray our sense
Than woman's lightness? Having waste ground enough,
Shall we desire to raze the sanctuary
And pitch our evils there? O, fie, fie, fie!
What dost thou, or what art thou, Angelo?
Dost thou desire her foully for those things
That make her good? O, let her brother live!
Thieves for their robbery have authority
When judges steal themselves. What, do I love her,
That I desire to hear her speak again,
And feast upon her eyes? What is't I dream on?
O cunning enemy, that, to catch a saint,
With saints dost bait thy hook! Most dangerous
Is that temptation that doth goad us on
To sin in loving virtue: never could the strumpet,
With all her double vigour, art and nature,
Once stir my temper; but this virtuous maid
Subdues me quite. Even till now,
When men were fond, I smiled and wonder'd how. |
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| Minx books |
[Oct. 16th, 2008|10:44 pm] |
I've recently discovered a couple of new mangas and have finished Janes in Love (several times) - I am completely gutted that there'll be no Janes in Summer etc (not the right title I think) ... sad face ...
I think they fell between the stools of those cute little oni graphic novels and the wish to go for the manga market ... and after all - if you are going for the girls who read comics in a more traditional sense - that's quite a small market - although of course ... what I really don't understand is why didn't they ask Gail Simone to do one? Have they not read Killer Princesses? |
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| Kirstyfest 2008 (part 1 - mostly about our 3 minutes of fame and a wonderful songwriter) |
[Oct. 13th, 2008|11:22 pm] |
I just did the bestest thing on Sunday - I sang in public!! With Chris - and some mad monster-toed/dogfaced slippers, a pair of army boots and ... some sockettes disguised as ballet shoes!! I've never done it solo (Chris spoke/sang some bits but I carried the verse narration etc ...)
The performance was silly and fun - but the singing was done with all seriousness (I had a whole four singing lessons - spaced out over about as many months as singing is expensive - but they really did help the breathing - that's not the only reason I had them - but it was handy)
It was in honour of Kirsty MacColl - whose 'In These Shoes' we were singing (now! I hear you cry Now! I understand about the slippers etc ...) and I loved it ...
We were so nervous we forgot to ask someone to take a photo ... so er ... if anyone out there was at Kirstyfest 2008 and has found me via googling Kirstyfest 2008 and has taken a photo ...
We'd really really like a copy : )
Thanks to Kirsty MacColl 1959-2000 for a great song - you would have written more if it weren't for a rich man with no respect for human beings ...
http://www.justiceforkirsty.org/ |
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| Short heads up: Woot! Corrina's Birthday!! |
[Sep. 22nd, 2008|06:18 pm] |
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Notice!! Happy Birthday to Long Standing WoPper whose birthday it is this week (I'll let her keep the precise date details!) ... Corrina Lawson!! Happy Birthday Corrina |
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| Swim time!! |
[Sep. 19th, 2008|11:30 pm] |
Have just discovered that the Bravissimo sale does still have my sizes - so I've ordered myself the built-in bra bikini and the tankini with shorts and briefs (and it was less than buying a full price top and bottoms!) - not sure why I thought they had sold out of the bottoms ... must have mis-read something. I feel like I belong once more!!
I bought the tankini because although I like the idea of not having fabric over the tummy, I wanted an option just in case I was feeling either self conscious or that the water was cold ... but at least with a tankini you can yank it up a bit if it's wet and sticking.
Will definitely review once I have the garments - I just hope I got the size right - in a sale - you turn round and everything is gone - but large expense on the light box and a few other things means that I'm a bit tight (I've been putting a large chunk into savings - it's not that I don't have the money at all) - and really - in sports bras - I tend to be the same size from brand to brand (not usually the case I know - but so far ...)
Everyone should have a practical swimming costume, a 'beach' one and a passport ...
Am reading all about Station X - my head is whirling with bombes, Cilis, 'kisses' and 'pinches' and Alan Turing - gosh the law was a b*****d in 1950's (in the book I have reached 1941 - but it is sad to think that just over a decade later (1954) he was using his scientific skills to lace an apple with cyanide and kill himself ... what a stupid waste. It was delightful to read that there *were* female cryptographers - not just in the translation unit but actually in hut 6 - they recruited female mathematicians from the women's colleges at Cambridge (can't recall if it was all of them) - although from what I've gathered there were plenty more men than women, and the majority of the women were doing the more mundane stuff.
Bedfordshire was a real hive of activity in WWII - airfields, black propaganda station, Bletchley, manufacturing (I love the minor detail that Dunstable got its car manufacturing [gone now] because they built a fake factory and disguised the real one - then decided to make the fake real [presumably after the war!]) (must check the details of that - it's a long time since I read the lecture) |
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| (no subject) |
[Sep. 5th, 2008|12:47 pm] |
Hi there - it's been a bit quiet on the Min front because I've been concentrating on Words of Prey (to my benefit I think ... there are good peeps hanging out on the WoP community) (and it's been inspiration for another project of mine which may get an announcement by Christmas)
But I did want to flag up this:
http://www.ordinarypeoplechangetheworld.com/
C'mon - we can *save* Superman's House!! How cool is that?
Not that there aren't many other good causes out there - but this one ... there's something inspirational about not just the character but also about the story of the two guys who made him and the time at which it was done - also, for me - there is something special about saving a house which is probably just any old house - rather like the National Trust in the UK bought Paul McCartney's old home not simply because it was the house of a Beatle but because it was a typical house of its type like any other - architectural normality of its class/period etc ... any working class Merseyside family could and did grow up there - and changed the world ....
I've ordered my Tshirt.
(Spotted on Neil Gaiman's website - as so often). |
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| The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred |
[Aug. 18th, 2008|08:25 pm] |
The command comes from DQ:
1) Copy this list into your blog or journal, including these instructions.
2) Bold all the items you’ve eaten.
3) Cross out any items that you would never consider eating.
4) Optional extra: Post a comment here at www.verygoodtaste.co.uk linking to your results.
( The VGT Omnivore’s Hundred ) |
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| Just heard the *best* poem on radio 4 |
[Aug. 13th, 2008|11:27 pm] |
I was listening to this: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/arts/bespokenword.shtml
and I heard the spoken version of this:
http://www.bebo.com/BlogView.jsp?MemberId=6649425&BlogId=4451587100
Here's a video interview with the poet with a couple of extracts but I couldn't find the whole thing spoken. So you'll all have to go out and earn the man his living
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/771006/worlds_greatest_poet_on_keith_richards/
I will post briefly on my delightful wanderings in London last night to say that my second experience of working with Chris to whisk creative American types round weird bits of London was great fun and was as enjoyable as the first time ... only the first time it was ![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) jennawaterford** and this time is was the delightful quirkybird who is now heading to my first home city of Manchester* ... so hopefully she will be enjoying a nan and salad from one of the Rusholme chippies (heck! I hope they're all still there!)
we had a fun time talking about travel, London, cities, history lots of stuff ... a teeny bit about comics and Jasper fforde ...
She is very sparky and funny - very much as you'd expect.
** who was a good online friend at the time - so perhaps not quite the same feeling of a Spy Rendezvous as yesterday!!
* I didn't live there - but it was the big city near my small town and I went to college there |
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| cities |
[Aug. 11th, 2008|11:18 pm] |
Andrew Marr's programme on London reminded me of why I love the city so much - the city itself as a space ... as a structure ... thinking of other cities - the thing I love about it is the mixty maxty nature of its design or many many designs ... my memories of Berlin and in a rather different way are similar - Athens - which is like a ribbon of archaeology, 70s, modern classical, those white walled mediterranean buildings and medium-sized tower blocks ... I feel at home in patchwork cities .... |
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| Heee!!! |
[Aug. 9th, 2008|10:07 pm] |
http://store.doverpublications.com/by-subject-mccain---obama-paper-dolls.html
Just cos ... cos ...
well cos ....
heeee-hee-heee
(I know Dover have a long tradition of presidential paper dolls - but I just loved the bit about 'the fun way to support [insert your preferred candidate here]')
Although ... I hope Obama is having a lovely holiday - he was rather impressive on our news so far - I was intrigued to know whether it was normal to go and campaign outside your own country or whether it is so he can build up some foreign policy links (which I hear referred to as one of his 'weak' spots). Anyone care to enlighten me? |
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| Black Canary: Back to Star City ... |
[Aug. 5th, 2008|06:37 pm] |
Just to heads-up a link on Newsarama (thanks to the blog of one of our new members for this)
http://www.newsarama.com/comics/080724-comiccon-new-green-arrow-writer.html
I've been very surprised so far with my enjoyment of this series - but I really liked the 'day to day' living of the old Grell Green Arrow stories (even if Ollie did come across as an idiot ...) so I am looking forward to seeing this. I actually really enjoy the idea of Canary being married ...
No announcement on the artist so we are assuming there will be no change on the Norton & Chiang (covers).
Any thoughts? |
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