Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Tolkien, pipe smoking on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »
Suddenly Frodo noticed that a strange-looking weather-beaten man, sitting in the shadows near the wall, was also listening intently to the hobbit-talk. He had a tall tankard in front of him, and was smoking a long-stemmed pipe curiously carved. His legs were stretched out before him, showing high boots of supple leather that fitted him [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2008 | No Comments »
The Othila rune from the Elder Futhark. This site defines Othila thus:
Othila links with the home extend to represent ancestral wisdom - that which is passed down to us. It reminds us that as one life ends the next in line must ‘pick up the baton’, the wisdom and responsibility and continue on the journey.
It is [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged insanity on July 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Although i find insanity interesting i am uninterested in the insane. Insanity offers much of interest to any student of that ghastly thing known as human nature; insane people tend to be incredibly boring, egotistical, loud, and variously offputting. Even when they’re dangerous they somehow manage to be tediously so.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged New Year Resolutions on July 15, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Since it’s now mid July i feel it’s time i made my New Year resolutions. They are as follows:
1. To smoke a pipe at work but use Jedi mind tricks to convince the Smoking Patrol Officer and my many MILF bosses that i am in fact chewing a pipe-shaped stick of dynamite.
2. To utter the [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged red trousers, taboo, wizards on July 15, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Every man, however base and foul and unprincipled, will take a stand about something. There will be something he just won’t do, even if his life depends on it. With some men it will be torture or murder. With me it’s wearing red trousers. i just won’t do it. i don’t care if old-school wizards [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on July 7, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Will be off-line and in Oxford till Thursday, try not to kill anyone till i get back.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged being a chap, being turned into a frog, dandies, wizards on July 2, 2008 | 1 Comment »
People often ask me, “Elberry, how can I tell if a chap is a wizard or not? Will there be a long flowing beard, a huge pointy hat? Will he be 9 feet tall and covered in jailhouse tattoos? I want to make sure I don’t accidentally irritate the wrong man and get blasted or turned [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, CIA, James Angleton, knowledge, science, statistics, understanding on July 1, 2008 | 8 Comments »
In Robert Littell’s CIA novel The Company, the grandly-named James Jesus Angleton, ‘Mother’, head of Counter-Intelligence, refers to his work as being ‘a wilderness of mirrors’ (a line from TS Eliot’s ‘Gerontion’). The real life Angleton apparently never caught a single mole in his 30-odd years, but in his relentless paranoia ruined the careers of many [...]
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged blogging, trolls on June 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Some commentators might experience a slight change in my blog. i have updated my FAQ to address this issue.
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged dogs, ice cream on June 28, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Fed the dog expensive ice cream yesterday. A new chapter in our man-canine relationship.
