Good for what ails ya in north east Asia

I grow ever- slacker at this blogging lark. Soon I may have to go into a chrysalis and re-emerge with a new online presence (much like MAS did with his awesome literalist take on Handwashings).

Until then, fancy a brew?

Hot child in the city

A few days back I had occasion to visit New York on work bid'nez. I double up with some visitin' time: thanks Coveting, Unwellness, Listo, Youthlarge, Apes, and Kaci!

My pod

Why I was there- the location of a work function that seemed part 'Land of the Lost', part 'Wall Street', part 'Night at the Roxbury'.

Work....

A peregrine falcon (a touch of home) on the New York skyline.

Casa da Apes y Kaci. I want a ship at the end of my street.

Proof I was in Brooklyn being a tourist.

And why not?

The view from Youthlarge and Listo's apartment. Someone buy it from them: they need a second bedroom more than a skyline.

Happy parents (although you can see he has a cold, poor dear)...

.. and awesome infants! Hi Sam and Otis.

News Synergy

Two headlines from the BBC:

Ronald Reagan 'appears to Nancy'

and:

Weekly curry 'may fight dementia'

Mr. Gorbachev, tear off some naan (and get some take away to Nance, there's a love).

Ain't no party like an airbrushed truck party

Sometimes the view from my front door is too wonderful for words:



Later on the A-Team van, KITT, and Magnum's Ferrari stopped by for mai tais.

The art of the headline

From the BBC News England page today:

'Nuns' go on the run for charity
Heroes remembered by canoeists
Two-year-old becomes Mensa member
Prince starts ancient custom walk
May Day frolic on Dorset giant
Dad uses internet to deliver baby
Meerkats 'not very good as pets'
Pagan refuses to leave Stonehenge
Pupils ill after bulb put in soup
Customers watch armed robbery

What an interesting place that England must be.

Australian Siblings Interpretive Baywatch Dance

I saw this on The Soup last night: disturbingly entertaining:

This is not a baseball blog 23 (I think)

Plex from Yo Gabba Gabba (in middle)

Red Sox co-owner Tom Werner who seemed to have radio ear muffs on all weekend.

This is not a baseball blog #I've forgotten

It wouldn't be baseball season without at least one of these:

Bond villain Hugo Drax from Moonraker

Red Sox 3rd Baseman Mike Lowell

Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

If this is the final nail in the coffin of this season:

Ipswich 3-2 Norwich

: I shall be forced to join the French Foreign Legion, in order to forget ("Forget what? I've forgotten.")

work life balance

I can't believe I missed the grand national on this blog. First time since I started. Bah.

Caption Contest

Feel free to add your thoughts in the comments...

'Worst song' Agadoo re-released

Hooray!

Yum

Gawd bless the Pemaquid oyster, $1 a go.

Sporting Dream Could be a Nightmare

For much of my life I have harboured a hope that the three English football teams most important to my family- Norwich City, Leyton Orient, and Brentford- would play in the same division. I just didn't want it to be the old 3rd division. Bah.

Come on Norwich, pull out another improbable victory over relegation from the jaws of the defeat. The only other way to avoid this meeting of the teams is for Orient to get relegated themselves, and that's hardly the positive outcome one would hope for.

Everything is Belgian.

I have long harboured a fondness for the odd little lowland country of Belgium. Half Dutch, half-French, and all weird.

Now news comes that the quintisentially English game, cricket, may have been invented by les Belges.

Such an unassuming place: invents everything but never worries about taking any credit. Cricket, the french fry, the FN self loading rifle, brussels sprouts- "fabrique Belgique" indeed.

Hooray for you, Belgium.