Monthly Archives: September 2007

Ukelele Solo!

Words to strike terror into the stoutest heart. Enjoy!

Fargo Street

There’s an annual bike ‘race’ in LA each year, riding up the area’s steepest street. Here’s a page recounting the 2007 event. The idea is to get up the hill as many times as you can in a day, with records pushing 100. I can’t imagine the coast back down is that much fun, given [...]

Hello

Having collected my boy from his new school a few times over the last fortnight, and overheard the conversations of various young mums, I offer the following language advice. “Hello” is pronounced with a short ‘o’, not a long ‘ooo’, and should at no point be pronounced in a sing-song tone. The Welsh can manage [...]

BlogRush

Determined not to miss out on the next MyFaceKut*, I’ve signed up for BlogRush, which as far as I can tell is a pyramid scheme for advertising your blog. It’s biggest failing as a pyramid scheme is that it’s free, but as that’s not a failing I have to pay for I’m giving it a [...]

Wherein I make like a proper lefty blogger

The NYT is reporting that Michael B. Mukasey is likely to be the President’s next nominee for Attorney General. I know nothing about this man, but he sounds like a reasonable candidate: Unlike Mr. Gonzales, Mr. Mukasey is not a close confidant of the president. Nor is he a Washington insider. But people in both [...]