My favourite strange Google referral to this page yet: OCC Niple scandal [sic].
Yes, apparently the niples of OCC have been well and truly displayed to the world via my humble not-blog.
If anyone out there has particularly attractive niples, by the way, we could always do some kind of calendar for charity.
I’m looking for some atrocious puns here, but they’re just not coming. So, you know. As you were.
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Someone asked me a while ago – I think it was the folks at NYMag’s Vulture – whom I admired or even wanted to be like in terms of writers. When I mentioned Dumas and Wodehouse, they objected that these guys were dead. Did I not have some modern (contemporary) influences? Well, yeah, I do, but I’ve been a bit shy about them. I think that may be because I’d have to begin that sentence “Aside from my father,” which is something you can say too often. In fact, saying it at all is a tar pit.
However, I do have to acknowledge that there are some writers who are not dead whom I greatly admire. Pynchon has already been mentioned, and yes, I’m gutted that Vonnegut and Adams died before I could lay my book at their feet and say: “look! I made this! And I wish to buy you ale.” 
Tags: Greenland, Iceland, writers
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So, here’s a thing. About eight years ago, I was diagnosed with one of those endlessly dull medical conditions which are permanent, non-life threatening, trivial and irksome. I won’t tell you which one, because it’s not relevant to this story. Anyway, I’ve been taking a steady diet of pills for it since the dawn of the millenium. (Going through customs with that stuff is always fun.)
A few weeks back, the pharmaceutical company which produces one of the pills I was taking changed the recipe. The active ingredients remained the same, but a new set of preservatives and food colourings was introduced (and that’s a curious thing in itself: do the aesthetics of a pill really matter a damn? I can see why pill bottle design is important – but re-designing an actual medication?)
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