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(Nah, good on ye Arundel, and happy Memorial Day to all the Americans out there).

Oddly, I just did that exact trip yesterday (Brussels-Antwerp-Rotterdam) and yeah, it was close to an hour to Antwerp. Two to Rotterdam. And thus ends my boring but relevant comment.

'Desperate charisma'. Hey, that's how women often describe me! Well, except for the charisma part.

Ahmadinejad.

I have an Estonian friend. I sorta think he might be one of the members of this band. I also have to admit: I'm not surprised by the fact, just that it took him seven years to do something like this.

"This is the best news ever!" said Gentle Herpes, while he was gently stroked by his peers.

I've actually been thinking about this for quite a while, as I'm in academia. A lot of academics look down their noses at the pop philosophy approach (and this guy's theories seem inconsistent and a bit confused), but it's also refreshing to see people go out on a limb like this and profess SOMETHING, even if it's…

That reminds me of probably my favourite festival experience (if you could call it that). It was Radiohead's hometown Oxford show in 2001. They shared the bill with Sigur Ros, Beck, Supergrass and, um, the Rock of Travolta. I think that was the first time that Radiohead played Creep live in a very, very long time.

God this news makes me sad. RIP. One of my favourites:
http://www.youtube.com/watc…

Hey @Kosmonaut.
This is in no way related to this post, but I just wanted to thank you
for recommending buying a DAC on the vinyl article. I only recently have
enough money to really care about sound quality, and bought some nice
Philips speakers, but was still mostly using them run through my
computer for my MP3s. I…

Imagining the band being called 'Wet Nuts' really makes for a glorious typo.

You just obviously don't wish that love was stronger than gravity.

God, I fucking hate most gimmick posters.

Paul Simon looks like he's about to unhinge his jaw and devour Chevy.

"Have you heard of my latest steampunk, dildo-filled art project?"

That guy on the right looks like a young Sylvester Stallone if he was a Cabbage Patch Kid.

I always thought that pizza looked much more delicious than real pizza. I was, perhaps, an odd child.

I finished it about a month ago and liked it, but man, it was a tough read at points. It's just really dense. In terms of long, difficult, but rewarding books, I'd put it behind Infinite Jest, but ahead of JR by William Gaddis, which I am reading now and it's annoying me.

Ah yes, I hope the start of the PhD is going well and the Rotterdam construction site, er, campus isn't bumming you out. I overlook the construction. Frowny face.

Didn't Alexander do that (but unfortunately not to the same comic effect)? I'm kind of fine with that approach. I actually feel the opposite as Mr Tobias, where I find it distracting to have 'foreign' characters speaking heavily accented English in situations where they would actually be speaking in their native…