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That'd be right. Just at a time when I am really, really digging the company of a recent female acquaintance, I have to bugger off to NZ and see my family and the West Coast. Well, I choose to. And I want to. But if it weren't already booked, then I figure I'd be delaying it a little. This is the only main stretch of NZ I have yet to travel along, so looking forward to it, and a touch of glacier climbing, micro-breweries and sandflies:

Listening to: Ryan Adams - Come Pick Me Up

Picture this....

You are in Iraq
You find a cluster bomb

Do you:

a) run like fuck
b) think "that's cool, I think I'll take it home with me"

A Japanese press photographer chose the second option. And when a security guard checked his bag, he died. Because the bomb went off.

The photographer was imprisoned for manslaughter, but was then pardoned by the King of Jordan.

Listening to: The Cruel Sea - This Is Not the Way Home

Just came across Donolog's Evil Girl Thereom

Listening to: Cocteau Twins - Half-Gifts

I was very interested to read Justin Timberlake's accounts of Banging Britney. Obviously I won't be making comments about any banging I get up to, for my Gran has Internet access. I will however mention that I actually had a date last weekend! Apart from a three week fling, that's the most romantic thing I have done in the last three years, so yay for me. I was most impressed with my mature approach - gone are the days of turning up to a date drunk, this time I only had a single beer prior. And she's real nice! Almost my age, well versed in music and movies, intelligent, attractive, well travelled, professional. I am looking forward to getting to know her better, romantically and otherwise.

Listening to: Love - My Little Red Book