News It's happening then. Bugger.

[The BBC are offering an hourly update in the style of their football commentaries; searching for Iraq at Google News offers this page which will no doubt fulfill the same function]

Sex Sadly, it looks like the old adage of getting the kids to 'Make Love, Not War' is ill advised this time:
""We're all horny," said Gordon, a clinical psychologist with a special interest in sexuality education. "The question is what to do about it?" ...Gordon's ideas are controversial. "What do you do with horny kids?" he asked. "I'll tell you what to do. Masturbation. Woody Allen once joked that if you're masturbating at least you're having sex with someone you love and someone who won't reject you."
EIther that or make them endure the sex eductation I had to at my school, which consisted of pages 254 and 255 of the Biology text book; those line drawings and the teacher's sheepishness could have been enough to put you off sex for life. You put that in there .... na na na na no ...

Film Terry Gilliam to direct Grimm Fairy Tales for Miramax. I see Bob has started his Oscar campaign for 2005 very, very early this time ...

Referers Be afraid, be very afraid. According to my logs Jimmy Nesbitt has a stalker.

Quote!

MÁRGARÉT, áre you gríeving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leáves, líke the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! ás the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you wíll weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sórrow’s spríngs áre the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What heart heard of, ghost guessed:
It ís the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for.

-- Gerard Manley Hopkins, Lydiate, 7 September 1880

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