Boogenstein
Robin Soup
Hate, Vodka n' Greed
Mike's site 
Neil Gaiman
General Stuff
Custom Chick Choppers
Tie Dye Dragonfly 
        

A strangely interesting look at who's into what. I'm not really into the whole idea of celebrity, but there's some good book recommendations in there.

5:58:27 PM  Speak to me ...  []  

A man was crossing a road one day when a frog called out to him and said, "If you kiss me, I'll turn into a beautiful princess." He bent over, picked up the frog, and put it in his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will tell everyone how smart and brave you are and how you are my hero." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog spoke up again and said, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a beautiful princess, I will be your loving companion for an entire week." The man took the frog out of his pocket, smiled at it, and returned it to his pocket.

The frog then cried out, "If you kiss me and turn me back into a princess, I'll stay with you for a year and do ANYTHING you want." Again the man took the frog out, smiled at it, and put it back into his pocket.

Finally, the frog asked, "What is the matter? I've told you I'm a beautiful princess, that I'll stay with you for a year and do anything you want. Why won't you kiss me?" The man said, "Look, I'm a computer programmer. I don't have time for a girlfriend, but a talking frog is cool."

1:05:39 AM  Speak to me ...  []  

It's hard to believe that a decade has gone by. What a different place the world was then.

"Punk is musical freedom. It's saying, doing and playing what you want. In Webster's terms, 'nirvana' means freedom from pain, suffering and the external world, and that's pretty close to my definition of Punk Rock."

-Kurt Cobain

5:40:41 PM  Speak to me ...  []  

Facts: I thought I was off on Thursday, but I just checked my answermachine, having been out completing last minute shopping, I've got a repreive - now off on Monday. This not only simplifies everything with regard to visas and travel, but also allows me time to get proper medication (according to the pharmacist I spoke to today, Malaria is still the world's #1 killer, espesh in Nigeria) but gives me a weekend with the boys and girls of Gavworld, Suffolk. This, I'm pleased about.

Unnecesary Guns n' Roses quote: (yeah, I'm a frequent flier.)

More rambling: Mostly I'm just annoyed that I'm going to Africa without one of these.


12:42:23 AM  Speak to me ...  []  

Where ever I lay my pith helmet ...

Finally, some information about Nigeria, though if Lonely Planet's books on Russia are anything to go by, I can ignore it.

5:58:15 PM  Speak to me ...  []  

Hey, my little mini-cousin made the news!! Best wishes to little Emmanuel and Felicity.

1:40:40 AM  Speak to me ...  []  

New hobby: In the iTunes window, type a random word and see what you get. You are running the free and totally excellent iTunes, right? Naturally you need an MP3 collection for this, but I've heard they're easy to get. I actually paid for mine, which in hindsight was really, really dumb.

12:36:44 AM  Speak to me ...  []  

Due to short term pressures, I'm going to have to reduce the functionality of this site, just for while, the blog remains, but the travelogue bits will be down until I get home from my first trip. Then they'll be back and will include not only my Nigeria travels but also some pics and notes on Cyprus, France, Ryazan and Moscow, which have been 'nearly' finished for a while. Whether I will be able to update the blog at all remains a mystery, but I will try, if it's at all possible.

Due to the frankly ridiculous structure of my site (yeah, well, it evolved), it's been hard to add to in a coherent way, the new version will be much easier, probably faster and certainly even sexier (it's just about possible, apparently), but I can't do a thing about a new host until I get some new cash and some new time. Probably about 3 months away.

In the event that gavinmorris.com goes down, well, there won't be shit I can do about it, so please just update your marks to the URL http://blogs.salon.com/0002725/

My BT address, and my vin.org.uk will also die in the next few days, I never check my hotmail, so please use my Yahoo address, it will work fine.

In the event that even the email is unreachable (American/Arab company in Nigeria? certainly sounds possible) then the comments facility here will definitely get my attention.

11:55:41 PM  Speak to me ...  []  

Wow! It's true. They really do have everything on the internet. This is really disgusting, you really don't need to click it.

11:35:54 PM  Speak to me ...  []  

This is an amazing website, you should read it. Brave lady, and nice bike.

3:23:09 AM  Speak to me ...  []  

Made me smile.

3:22:58 PM  Speak to me ...  []