It’s good to be reminded occasionally that it’s not just Muslims who go round trying to blow up idiots and innocents. Sounds like the Christians had a go at all-round prat, Leo Bassi, last night with an incendiary device in his dressing room, without causing any damage. Like a whole bunch of British standups still…
I used to make music with Leon and Jurgen (2003), and that rather nice sceptre was promised to me one evening by Hennie the painter. Henk (1982) played a mean snare-drum and is greatly missed; I think I would also be dead by now if that life had continued.
Mark Liberman wonders whether Cinderella slipped two dead squirrels round her tootsy-toes that night, while Chris Waigl does not. I think glass is a reasonable interpretation, although it may not have been the material used. DH Green (Language and History in the Early Germanic World) notes that both Pliny and Tacitus used glaesum/glesum to refer…
Mark Liberman wonders whether Cinderella slipped two dead squirrels round her tootsy-toes that night, while Chris Waigl does not. I think glass is a reasonable interpretation, although it may not have been the material used. DH Green (Language and History in the Early Germanic World) notes that both Pliny and Tacitus used glaesum/glesum to refer…
Zara’s had to withdraw this stuff (via Nihil Obstat) to avoid a new cartoon affair. I hope no one will mind my telling you that it used to be possible to sleep in Cologne cathedral.
Spain is to be represented in Eurovision by Las Ketchup, three daughters of Cordoban flamenco singer El Tomate. Their number is called Blody Mary–at least by El Diario Montanés; Spanish TV describes it as “a perfect cocktail which combines [a] smooth and elegant melody” with “the happiness and colour of the group”.