• New Poll: That V.C. Andrews reference down below sent me on a total nostalgia trip. Did you ever read any of her books? Would you admit to it? Go vote and then read the rest of this post.

    Okay, in case you’re wondering, V.C. Andrews wrote all these weird melodramatic serial novels generally about young women in incestuous circumstances. They were really popular in the 80’s, I swear. In junior high my group of girlfriends used to pass copies of them around until they were ragged. Apparently they’re such a publishing cash cow that even though the author died, her family have continued to publish new books under her name. They’ve all got lurid covers with a blond waif peeking out of a cutout on the front. No, I’m not proud of knowing this.


  • 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.)


  • The Irish are 0-3 for the first time ever, and the vultures are starting to circle Coach Bob Davie. If he doesn’t pull a win out of his ass soon, they’ll run him out of town.


  • 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?


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


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


  • Just found on the BBC News site:

    Anybody else see a connection?

    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?


  • School Disco

    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… 🙂



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