Not that I'm fishing or anything, but hey, look at these cool Flo stickers!
They're sold in packs of 50, though, and that's a little too much egomania even for me.
How lucky am I to have my own clothing brand. I remember when it first started in a small store called Slant6 that opened next to the Benny's Bagels near Kits highschool. Now that is fate. Now it is a self-professed "leader in the junior girls market."
How old do you have to be before you aren't part of the junior girls market?
London: Wretched Hive of Scum and Villainy
In the "when it rains, it pours" department, my wallet and phone got stolen from my bag in the pub last weekend.
Firstly, sorry to everyone who got a phonecall at 3 a.m. from the losers in question.
Secondly, ha ha losers, enjoy your 60 pence and BC drivers license. Little did you know I never have any frickin cash. Also the sunglasses you left behind were worth double what the phone was worth. And you suck.
I have ordered a new phone but it'll be a couple of days before I am back on the airwaves -- so email me instead!
I know just reposting links from BoingBoing is uncool, but OUCH, funny.
Possible Follow-up Songs for One-hit Wonders
How Are We Going to Get These Dogs Back In?
Bust an Additional Move
Seriously, Eileen, Come On
I Will Now Pass the Dutchie Back to You and Thank You for Passing It to Me Originally Because I Really Enjoyed the Dutchie
Whoomp! There It Continues to Be
There's more, click the link.
Extradition Fun Time
Today's theme seems to be "strange extradition battles from Asia."
Here's a story about a guy who has been hiding out in North Korea after going AWOL/being kidnapped/? during the Korean War. The US wants to Japan to extradite him for absconding from a war that ended 40 years ago...
Charles Jenkins, 64, has been living in North Korea since the 1960s, previously refusing to join his wife in Japan for fear if being turned over to the US.
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Ms Soga, who was kidnapped by North Korean secret agents in the 1970s, met and married Mr Jenkins in Pyongyang in 1980. They had not seen each other since 2002, when Ms Soga was allowed to return to Japan.
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Mr Jenkins has indicated he would like to move to Japan permanently to be with his wife and their two daughters.
He has been in North Korea since 1965, after disappearing from patrol in South Korea near the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ). He told his platoon he was going to investigate a noise and never came back.
The US Army says he deserted, but relatives in the US believe that he, like Ms Soga, was kidnapped.
And here's
a story about how the US wants to extradite Bobby Fischer(!) for playing chess(!) in a country that doesn't even exist anymore...
Japan is holding controversial ex-world chess champion Bobby Fischer, wanted by the US for more than a decade.
Mr Fischer is accused by the US of breaking international sanctions by travelling to Yugoslavia in 1992 to play against a Russian arch-rival.
Mr Fischer, an American citizen, won the match against Boris Spassky but disappeared when the US authorities announced they wanted to prosecute him.
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Martha Stewart is going to jail today. Poor Martha.
I mean, lying to investigators bad and all. But, that would just suck.
(Inter)national Barbie-in-a-Blender Day!
Does Barbie bleed?
That's really up to you. Rumor has it that a co-branding agreement between Mattel and Heinz has given Barbie blood made out of ketchup. Others argue that Barbie's blood absolutely, positively must flow pink. And conspiracy theorists and anatomy experts have even suggested that Barbie's unknown and likely alien origins imply a green or perhaps fluorescent blood stream. But nearly everyone agrees that when things get bloody in the blender, they get very bloody.
I don't hate Barbie; in fact, I love her! And I love art and free speech and pink webpages, and anyway, Barbie should be able to do what she wants!
I thought it would be fun to share the RSS feeds that I have in my reader.
There's news, BoingBoing, space stuff, and a few blogs that I picked up here and there that I imagine might become interesting again.
I'm sure it will reveal my massive geekiness, but that's not a very well kept secret anyway. :)
You can import my feeds into your reader by importing this XML file.
I would love to get yours, so email or send me a link!
My blog is now the top result when you google flora graham, finally beating out everyone's Scottish great-grandmas.
I am happy because I used to be about 10 pages down due to the damn Mormo... I mean, geneologists.
Oh, come on, like you don't vanity google! And curse Mormons! Heh. Please don't write in.
Now my minor obsession with Electrochromic Windows (which sound so much cooler than, but are the same as, Electric Privacy Glass) is joined by:
Translucent Concrete!
(Ouch, my brain is hurting from figuring out the subject-verb agreement in that sentence.)
An article in Wired today about Blogger burnout:
Billmon's inability to keep up with the demands of moderating comments in the face of a job, family and other responsibilities is just one manifestation of a problem increasingly faced by popular daily bloggers: burnout. While they enjoy what they're doing, many find that keeping up with the pressures to post regularly and to be sharp, witty and incisive is often too much.
Pressure: I wish! Any encouragement is welcome. And I spend more time trying to repress the urge to be sharp, witty and incisive (or die trying). ;)
But then, it's a big of an overstatement to call myself a 'popular daily blogger'.
Some dudes got gored by bulls, surprise surprise, running with the bulls in Pamplona.
Hey, if you really want to be test your bravado, leave those poor animals alone and come on over. You run and I'll try to stab you in the butt with a jackknife.
Amusingly terse note about protesters, though: "On Monday, about 300 activists, wearing only their underwear, protested against the event."
Tournament Detournement
I am far too pleased that I have won my Euro 2004 fantasy football league. Especially since I don't really understand FF, and I picked my players based on cuteness and humourousness of surname.
Defending four-time champion Ali Morrison says: "Heartfelt congratulations. Much like the Greeks, you defied the odds and shocked the footballing world, defeating many of the so-called giants along the way, but then, as a nation, you went on a two month bender and forgot your responsibilities. That stadium will never have a roof."
At this sad time, let us remember the excellentness that is, Goodle.
When bad things happen to good, cute people
Yesterday, at about 9 a.m. GMT, you could have seen me on the Shoreditch High Street webcam, pedalling jauntily to work.
But now you may see me on the tube, cursing impotently as I fill out insurance forms.
Yes my bike has been stolen. To preemptively answer the most popular question so far, yes, it was locked up. The thing had more chains than Puff Daddy. (Heh.)
Oh well, this in London, it was bound to happen -- thus the insurance. Next week, bike shopping.
For a reminder of the halcyon days of yestermonth, click here. Memories...of the way we were...
