Memes Blog

Somebody had to do this, of course. It’s been done for film reviews and death metal lyrics, now we have a PERL warblogger in R. Robot: The first self-writing weblog.

There you have it: the bloviating insouciance, the absurd treachery of the weaseling Left.

George Orwell has observed, “libs corrupt everything and create nothing.” The wildly permissive bigots want it both ways. After the nuclear holy warriors obliterates the United States, they’ll say, “See, we told you so. It’s all Prime Minister Blair’s fault.”

(Link from Atrios)

At Creative Slips this weeks. And no bad train puns this week.

You’re Vietnam!
After years of muddling through on your own, you’ve finally repaired yourself to a point of respectability.  You would have been much better off had people you didn’t like not kept insisting on spending so much time with you.  But those times are fading quickly and these days you’re pretty sure you won’t get burned.  Star power!

Take the Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid

(Link from Dodgeblogium)

Carnival of the Vanities #48 is at Outside the Beltway.

With apologies to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown (Link from Michele)

Some of them are eerily appropriate….

Of course, if you’re really looking for Arthur Brown’s 1960s Hammond organ driven classic, this is what you want…

Definitely not a duff collection of links! More than 70 bloggers have a Brush with vanity at Right We Are!.

(From Dodgeblogium)

Seven Things That Make Me Laugh:

• This is Spïnal Tap
• Anything with John Cleese
• The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin
• A Very Peculiar Practice
• Drop The Dead Donkey
• Steve Jacksons Games satirical card games; expecially Chez Geek.
• St Gargoyles from the Church Times

Seven Things I Love:

• Cornwall
• Switzerland
• Locomotives with English Electric power units and no wussy silencers
• N-Gauge (Or N-scale for left-coasters)
• Prog-rock
• Cats
• Human-moderated Roleplaying games

Seven Things I Loathe

• Drive-by comments trolls
• Spam (the junk email, not the processed meat)
• The English music-press establishment, lead by the NME
• All shades of knee-jerk ideologues, regardless of political stripe.
• The privatisation and fragentation of British Rail
• Virgin Voyagers
• The dice-pool mechanism used in Deadlands

Seven Things on my Desk

• Sony VAIO Laptop Computer
• This month’s edition of Modern Railways
• Several CD-Roms of photos from my Swiss visit which I haven’t got round to uploading onto the web yet.
• A biro
• “Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence” by Dream Theater.
• Some Fudge dice which are trying to remind me my PBeM GM posts are overdue.
• Glass of Stella Artois

Seven Facts About Me

• I was born in a room overlooking the Great Western Main Line
• Have a degree in Computer Science from the University of Reading
• Started blogging in March 2002
• Am a blogchild of Bruce Baugh and Anne Blaeske
• Have met about eight other bloggers in person
• Have met more than thirty oneline roleplayers in person
• Have voted at least once for every significant political party (except for the neo-fascist ones)

Seven Things I Can Do

• Normalise relational databases (it says so on my CV!)
• Gamesmaster RPGs both on-line and face-to-face
• Keep a PBeM running for more than seven years
• Name all the class 50s locomotives, in order
• Draw (except for people)
• Assemble simpler etched brass wagon kits.
• Live without a car.

Seven Things I Can’t Do

• Speak any foreign language (as opposed to computer languages)
• Understand the appeal of Pop Idol
• Live in an American suburban sprawl
• Eat Pizza (damned allergies)
• Tell the difference between Coke and Pepsi
• Put together Parkwood Models clayhood kits and get the chassis square.
• Utter the word “Nebulosity” at work.

Seven Famous People I Want to Meet

• Rick Wakeman
• Chris Green of Virgin Trains (and ask him “Those Voyagers, what were you thinking?)
• Sir David Steel
• Archbishop Rowan Willams
• Iain Banks
• Ronnie Dio
• Buck Dharma

Seven Albums People Should Give a listen

• Jon Lord – Sarabande
• Spock’s Beard – Beware of Darkness
• Marillion – Anoraknophobia
• Dream Theater – Scenes from a Memory
• Tommy Bolin – Private Eyes
• Anathema – Judgement
• Uriah Heep – Sea of Light

The latest Carnival of the Vanities can be found at Across the Atlantic. Of course, as everybody knows, a class 46 is a 1-Co-Co-1, not a 4-4-2.

Now there’s this. Perhaps that thing washed up in Chile was really something Man Was Not Meant To Know after all; the whale carcass story is just a cover up…