the bounty of random
Aug. 19th, 2008 12:50 pm1. A photo of the actual Arundel tomb, from World's Worst Camera Phone (and courtesy of the missus):

(It was a couple weeks ago that I heard Roseanne Cash read Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" on NPR, which had prompted me posting the poem then. It's prompted me to reassess him as a writer; previously I was not too appreciative of his work.)
2. Ladies, your dream man is here.. Damn, when these mail-order bride things go bad, they GO BAD.
3. I hereby declare it my personal mission in life to preserve the semicolon. Why? The semicolon is sexy. Friends, join with me: Use a semicolon today!
(It was a couple weeks ago that I heard Roseanne Cash read Larkin's "Arundel Tomb" on NPR, which had prompted me posting the poem then. It's prompted me to reassess him as a writer; previously I was not too appreciative of his work.)
2. Ladies, your dream man is here.. Damn, when these mail-order bride things go bad, they GO BAD.
3. I hereby declare it my personal mission in life to preserve the semicolon. Why? The semicolon is sexy. Friends, join with me: Use a semicolon today!