Everybody’s talking about the big Eastenders shocker tonight. I don’t get why they keep calling it an “incest” storyline though. *Spoiler alert for UK fans!* It’s about a family of five sisters, where the youngest one is actually the eldest one’s daughter. She was too young to raise a child, so the family covered it up and the parents raised her as their own. But unless the father is somehow related to them, I really don’t see how it qualifies as “incest.” It’s not a friggin’ V.C. Andrews story.

Update: It is a V.C. Andrews story. Read the comments at your own risk. (Bigtime spoilers.)

That airplane guy I mentioned yesterday is sorry. He didn’t mean it to be an airplane. And besides, his mother says, kids always taunted him about his spinal disability. WHAT?

“Royal Mail unveils ‘interactive’ stamps.” Cool! I want a scratch ‘n’ sniff stamp!

This is scary. To me, the Chicago skyline is much more personally significant than the New York one.

Edited 03/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.

My weblog anagram is wedged-boss. I like that. What’s yours?

Edited 01/04/2025: Link is dead and not archived.

Just found on the BBC News site:

Anybody else see a connection?

An American-born football player over here (that’s “soccer player” for some of you) claims that during a match he saw one of the opposing team’s fans making an “airplane gesture” at him. Which is terrible and all… but what the hell is an “airplane gesture”? Everything I can think of would be just as equally applicable to a bird or something. How does this guy know for sure that the person was referring to the tragedy?

My friend Martin has been trying his hand at this weblogging business. Go check out his site and give him some encouragement. (But I have to warn you, avoid his School Disco pictures!)

For you non-UKers, School Disco is a ridiculous club event where lots of adults demean themselves by dressing up in school uniforms (a la Britney Spears) and trying to get off with one another to the sound of 80’s music. Or something. I’d write more, but Meg’s already said it better than I could. I’ll just further note how disgusting it is to see the crowd of dirty old men clustered around the Lloyd’s cashpoint on Saturday nights drooling over the “Catholic schoolgirls” in body glitter and pigtails. Ugh. But Martin loves it and I’m sure we’ll have a very entertaining argument going on in the comments section any moment now… 🙂

Salon.com’s moving virtually all its news and politics to the “Premium” site. The editor’s argument is that “while media outlets like CNN, Fox and MSNBC dish out the predictable mix of flag-waving kitsch, White House spin and wire copy, Salon breaks the hard-hitting stories and runs the complete range of commentary — from left to right to none-of-the-above — that the American public desperately needs as we educate ourselves about the coming conflict.” Of course, he doesn’t mention the BBC, which had arguably the best news coverage on the day of the 9-11 tragedy (and continues to impress). I’m sorry to say, this looks like the final nail in Salon’s coffin for me.