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Rome 2.3 These Being the Words of Marcus Tullius Cicero

Things aren’t really going to well for Vorenus, are they? Dreaming about his wife’s suicide/attempt to distract Vorenus from killing her son. Waking up knowing that it is all true. Becoming a “son of hades”[1] Being a general grump, although I suppose thinking that your kids are dead and knowing that you are the reason [...]

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In this country of the cute hoor, misleading the Dáil or Seanad is considered little more than a minor stroke

An asylum seeker who came to Ireland in 2000, Mr Adebari mused that while he was now Portlaoise’s first citizen, he was not yet an Irish citizen.
“Are you telling us you’re not legal,” Mr Aird interrupted, at which the whole public gallery erupted in laughter.
Okay, so on one hand this is good news. But [...]

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TT #23

Wow, can you believe that I’ve been doing this Thursday Thirteen stuff for 23 weeks now?

I was wondering what to do for this week’s Thursday Thirteen but then I got an email from Carl, linking to this post and providing perfect inspiration. So this T13 is a couple of responses to that post. And yes, [...]

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The angels have the phonebox.

Wednesday seems kinda late in the week to be doing a round up of the weekend, doesn’t it? but we’re all just going to have to deal with the fact that this is happening. But in reality it needn’t happen at all, or I suppose it would be more accurate to say that it need [...]

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If I had a world of my own, everything would be nonsense. Nothing would be what it is because everything would be what it isn’t. And contrary-wise; what it is it wouldn’t be, and what it wouldn’t be, it would.

Many things to be done today. Review of A Midummer Night’s Dream. The reading of blogs. the leaving the comments on the blogs. the reading of emails. the replying to emails. the inane surfing. and the work. But I can’t be arsed.
The head is disconnected from the world for some reason today. Stuff is happening, [...]

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Week 229

Compulsion ::
Spiritual ::
Spray ::
Compatibility ::
Pursuit ::
Fake ::
Mobile ::
Ceremony ::
Ribbons ::
Mozart ::

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TT #22

yet another banner nicked from Samulli

Well after last week’s zombie excitement, we’re back to the more usual T13 fun, these are just 13 random things that popped into my head.

I wish my chair at work was a different size. Actually it is probably the table and ‘puter that is the problem. Sorry chair. Not really [...]

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