Everything Is Better With Dragons
Book blogger, Autistic, Probably a Dragon
What am I, a field?
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(This analogy will make sense later.)
I was lying around in bed the other day, feeling exhausted because I’d had a busy few days – human interaction is draining – and also feeling guilty because I wasn’t doing anything productive.
Suffragette: an insulting diminutive coined in 1905 by the Daily Mail for women involved in the suffrage movement. Adopted by the WSPU as a badge of honour.
I went to see the new film about the Suffragettes on Thursday afternoon with my oldest friend. I really enjoyed the film, it was inspiring.
[There will be spoilers in this post, skip the first few paragraphs if you don’t want to know what happens. You have been warned, don’t complain.]
I watched Wyatt Earp (1994) tonight.
While it is a more accurate portrayal of events, it’s bloody long and a bit dull. It certainly doesn’t have the emotional punch of Tombstone (1993).
I inherited a stack of books and DVDs at the weekend because my dad is having a pre-moving clear out. Among them was a set of books about the American West given to my dad by my grandparents in 1976, and a DVD of Tombstone, the film about the Earp brothers and the OK Corral fight.
Continue reading “Fact and fiction: the shootout at the OK Corral”
I have similar problems with faith and free schools, but in this post they’re articulated much better than I would be able to.
Or more precisely, the angry rhetoric some people spout makes me giggle. Plus, positive stuff about Halloween.
Continue reading “Halloween makes me giggle”
The last week or so has been a bit hit and miss. I haven’t been eating properly and I’ve been spending.money when I shouldn’t. I haven’t been leaving the house much and when I do I’m always exhausted when I get back. Continue reading “I’m not eating again”
Pan Macmillan
24th September 2015
ISBN 9781447238324
Furiously Happy is a book about mental illness, but under the surface it’s about embracing joy in fantastic and outrageous ways. And who doesn’t need a bit more of that?
Continue reading “Review: ‘Furiously Happy’ by Jenny Lawson”
Apparently someone gobbed at a journalist yesterday. And a Tory got some egg on him.
Oh, and there was a protest where 60,000 people protested the Tory choices which are literally killing people.
One would think that that would be the thing to focus on, really, but apparently it’s more important to discuss that there was some saliva in a bloke’s hair. And condemn it.
Falling over themselves to show off how respectable they are, liberals have surged to bang on about how it’s Very Bad That There Was Violence, because that means It’s All That Anyone Will Talk About And The Messages Will Be Lost. And they’re partially right. The messages are being lost. Precisely because liberals are rushing to distance themselves from a very minor incident.
We could talk about how things are so bad the UN is investigating Britain’s treatment of disabled people, that fitness to work assessments
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