monotonehell

This is just too awesome :'D

2011-11-12T09:36:20Z

monotonehell @ 2011-10-24T19:34:00

2011-10-24T09:04:02Z

"Driving my cousin home one
Friday night we passed a group of boys walking
into town. One of them drew our attention as he
was dancing like a tit, with his pals laughing.
Unbeknownst to him, as he was doing this, his
wallet fell out his back pocket. My cousin
suggested we turn around and see what was in it.
By the time we got there, the boys were nowhere
to be seen and the area was deserted. After some
searching we found the wallet which contained
just 20 pounds, cards and a ticket to a gig that
night. We decided to find the boys and give it
back, laughing at how surprised he would be to
be approached and handed his own wallet. But
then a much funnier idea came to us. First we
drove around until we spotted them. Then,
knowing they were heading in to town through a
quiet industrial area, we drove about a quarter
of a mile ahead. We then placed the wallet on
the pavement right in their path and hid to
watch them approach, say 'Hey! That's someone's
wallet over there,' walk up to it, pick it up
excitedly, open it looking for riches and
inexplicably discover it was theirs. The
absolute confusion and surprise was hilarious to
watch. I like to think they still talk about how
one of their wallets somehow jumped ahead of
them." (craigix)

CHOOSE!

2011-06-27T11:30:12Z

Which will you poke?

Six of one hundred? Try twenty... (Post 3/3)

2010-11-08T07:54:21Z

76 The Inferno – Dante
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome F*&k yeah!
78 Germinal - Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession - AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web - EB White Gnnnarrr! :83
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery I wish I was hardcore enough to read it in the original French. lol
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams Bunnies and murder.. what more could you want in a book?
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo

Six of one hundred? Try twenty... (Post 2/3)

2010-11-08T07:53:42Z

(26 is MIA!?)
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll Drugs are bad mkay.
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis
34 Emma - Jane Austen
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen
36 The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe - CS Lewis (I might have read this as a child but can't remember for sure)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown HELL NO!
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney - John Irving
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery *waves at Nett*
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale - Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding OMG YES!
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel
52 Dune - Frank Herbert I saw the movie with Sting in it... does that count?
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime - Mark Haddon READ THIS IT IS GOOOOOOD!
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck "george"
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary - Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children - Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses - James Joyce

Six of one hundred? Try twenty... (Post 1/3)

2010-11-08T07:52:44Z

The BBC believes most people will have read only 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?

Bold the ones you’ve read! Italicize the ones you’ve partially read!

01 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen
02 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien
03 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte
04 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling
05 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee
06 The Bible
07 Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte
08 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell
09 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Luvs me some Dickens!
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveler’s Wife - Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams AND everything he ever wrote AFAIK

Art.

2010-10-29T20:20:58Z

(Viewer advisory: Plushy horror and gore)

Art.

2010-10-29T20:14:23Z

Umm...

2010-09-30T13:28:38Z

...Yes well.

Sorry.

2010-09-25T07:07:09Z

It escaped my head...

NSFW

2010-09-21T03:03:45Z

Due to swears and blasphemy...

WORK

2010-05-24T14:37:05Z

That's beautiful, Jonti!

2010-04-24T04:48:22Z

Tiny Japanese Girl

"I know you have a big heart. I've seen you wheel it around."

Math's time...

2010-03-21T11:25:19Z

Neil Patrick Harris + Smurfs = ?

Don't legislate your niche. Move with the technology.

2010-03-20T06:06:55Z

This is the kind of prank I approve of.

2010-03-13T02:37:16Z

Three minutes of delightful head with messingness

2010-03-13T02:08:32Z

Moozik

2010-03-05T14:20:13Z

I already loved last year's, Weebl's, "Get on my horse", but now that I've heard this cover from Italy's Nerd Follia, I love it more.

I liked Britney Spears's new song "3" until I heard Britany sing it. But Louis Cole and Genevieve Artadi made a lovely cover of it in the style of Jack Conte...

The Gashlycrumb Tinies

2010-02-27T16:37:28Z

An Illustrated Alphabet

Bye bye noughties...

2009-12-30T23:35:01Z

NAPPY YEW HEAR!

The most awesome thing since the last awesome thing...

2009-12-11T14:11:58Z

I dunno what I want for Xmas...

2009-12-11T14:04:46Z

But these guys...

...and girls...

...do.

WTF?

2009-10-26T16:37:48Z

I'm in Anaheim

2009-09-16T01:47:35Z

I made it. It actually went quite smoothly, apart from a little rushing at Sydney (worst airport ever).

I was early arriving at my hotel, which I expected I would be even though I took my time getting the bus down here. So they didn't quite have the room ready to go. opted to half check in and go for lunch and a walk. Weather is very nice, in fact it's so like Adelaide here in a lot of respects. I really don't feel out of place at all. Maybe it's because almost everyone I've overheard walking around here has an Australian accent (must be those cheap flights).

I walked around the block to Garden Walk which is an upscale new open air mall here, that's struggling to get tenants. Had lunch at a Johnny Rockets (50's style burger joint), and wandered into Disneyland for 10 minutes just to get the photo on my Annual Passport taken and printed.

I'm charging my camera, phone and laptop; which have all strangely gone dead flat while in transit?! So no pictures until later.

That's it from this side of the pond (X-posted everywhere ppl care)

2009-09-14T11:36:26Z

In around 12 hours I will be somewhere between here and the USA, in the perspective time machine.

I'll leave Adelaide at 9:30am on the 15th September.

While the Sun makes his trip around two thirds of the Planet, bringing Australia's yesterday to the USA's tomorrow, I'll be sitting in an aluminium tube trying to cross the other third in the opposite direction in only 15 minutes.

I'll arrive in LAX at 9:45 on the 15th of September.

Neat trick, wait until you see what I do on the way back.

I've been promised WiFi in my hotel, so if that works, the next transmission will be from the surface of the Moon. Or possibly from Anaheim, California.

I'm not much of a blogger, but people have requested "photos, lots of photos". So also dependent on the WiFi connection I will be posting some. Probably not in the first couple of days, as I'll be too busy being selfish to take the camera.

I'm also not very mobile, as I wont have a car. I do have the entire guide to Orange County's public transport system, so I may make a few expeditions. No promises.

In other news, packing didn't go well. It's all in there, and at about half the max baggage allowance.

BUT

I haven't a thread to wear. Despite my best efforts in the local stores. I'm going to 'hit up' (as they say in California, I wish they wouldn't) some clothing stores and some malls early on when I get there to see what I can see.