Florida: the state of the beach
Gathered on a 10 minute walk down the Fort Lauderdale beach. Frightening.
How Vampires Lost Their Fangs
Vampires may be popular, but they've paid a terrible price for it. Simply put, they're not scary any more. They're not monsters, at least not in the traditional sense. And so, having been de-fanged (as it were), they've been shoved to a different place in the cultural marketplace while center stage for monsters has been claimed by an entirely different species of undead: zombies.
Once vampires start sparkling, they aren't monsters any more...
Food & Light
Spent much of today working on some recent photography. Here's a couple I'm really pleased with:
The dinner at my nephew's christening.
The chandelier at a house we visited in Florida.
So, wait, politicians aren't allowed to have sex?
Britain is a strange place, sometimes. Sally Bercow, wife of the speaker of the House of Commons, has caused outrage - OUTRAGE - for posing in a mildly salacious pic (above) and admitting that they find sleeping in sight of the Houses of Parliament to be a bit sexy.
When John and I were first courting we used to walk along the South Bank and look at the Houses of Parliament. I never realised then how sexy I would find living under Big Ben with the bells chiming.
Politicians as a breed aren't particularly sexy but I think politics can be sexy because power is an aphrodisiac.
And outrage results. The Times [£]:
The apologies did little to impress MPs. One Tory minister said: “There are limits but this goes too far. This is a fierce challenge to the dignity of Parliament. The sooner we are rid of the both of them, the better.”
Yes, the dignity of Parliament is impugned when married couple have sexy time. Chaste MPs only, please!
Even Guido Fawkes, who is a watcher of totty himself, pitches in:
The discontent is growing and coming from higher up the Tory ladder
Members of the Tory party, I hate to break this to you: your leader has many children. He has, I suspect, been induldging in sexy time. With his not-unattractive wife.
OK, I get it. People don't like John Bercow. But this isn't political debate, or a matter of his competancy. This is salacious gossip, mixed up with some good old puriance.
Married people are allowed to have sex. It does not damage anyone or anything's dignity to talk about it a little. Move on, people.
Everything is a Remix (Part 2)
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A really fascinating look into how creativity builds on earlier creative works.
More here. And I'm going to make a donation now.
Gallery Gone, Man, Real Gone
Many of you have noticed the Widget Gallery is no longer available. Most widgets, however, can be found by performing an online search for the type of widget you want to have (e.g. RSS, Music, Amazon, Etsy, etc).
The space between the first and the second sentence there is exactly where the explanation of why the widget gallery is gone should be.
Its absence is so glaring as to call attention to the fact that there's no explanation. And sure enough, the comments are picking straight up on that...
Dear Facebook...
Not only are you exactly six months out on my insurance renewal cycle, but yellow just isn't my colour…
