fiction: The Portable Girlfriend

Not mine, just a link. Erotica + tech - I thought particularly tommdroid could appreciate :)

music meme

The rules: List five songs you currently love. It doesn't matter what genre they are from, whether they have words, or even if they any good, but they must be five songs you are really enjoying right now. Post these instructions, the songs, and the artists in your journal. Then tag five other friends to see what they are listening to.

1. Hallaig - Martyn Bennett
2. Kung Pow Theme - Mint Royale
3. Get the Girl, Kill the Baddies (Ruff Justice) - Pop Will Eat Itself
4. Whip in My Valise - Adam and the Ants
5. Hymn To Us - Transglobal Underground

And I tap: nminusone, ragdoll, skill_grl, timcharmorbien, and wendyzski

the biggest plate of calimari EVER!

Via Pharyngula: cooking a giant squid. Lots of great ideas, but alas, the huge suckers have high ammonia content - poisonous in addition to being emphatically Not Tasty.

Still..... wouldn't you just love to see Alton Brown do a giant squid episode? He'd need a warehouse and a chainsaw just to slice it up...

More things to do with little, non-poisonous squid in the comments.

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Just got back from "Serenity". I'll hold my review until after the weekend when the most hardcore Firefly fans on my Flist will have seen it.

Short version: Shiny! Surprising! Go see!

more poetry

Hallaig, by Sorley MacLean, translated by Seamus Heaney. I know this one from Martyn Bennett's song of the same name.

( snipped for brevity )

Seamus Heaney - I saw a book of his poetry when I picked up the Pablo Neruda. I'll have to remember that.

Additional: In Gaelic, alongside a slightly different English translation.