30th October 2012: BACKWASH

I think the secret to this one is the addition of cinnamon and ginger, two ingredients I have never used in a banana loaf. Try it and you will not be disappointed....Mr Boots wasn't.

like my entire childhood is underwater I'm so sad

30th October 2012

02.05 (UPDATED) Three feet of water have seeped onto the historic trading floor at the New York Stock Exchange, according to CNN.

03.20 America's oldest nuclear power plant is on alert after waters reached high levels.

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Our Extraordiary World: Incoming

"Secret Seaside"

irsezzan

parry: My name is Frank Smith.

How do they know you?
They spy on me.

Why do they?
They want to get false evidence to frame me.

What do they have against you?
They are out to get me.

Father Christmas

I remember back, I remember when
I must have been about 9 or 10
I remember walking down Bath Street,
down Bath Street just to meet ...


I didn't want to try on frocks
I didn't want to try on socks
all I wanted was a pair of Docks
all I wanted was a pair of Docks from ...

I felt I was in a cocoon
when I went into the changing room
things were happening far too soon
I was in the changing room with ...


I felt I was so out of place
and not in tune with the human race
I couldn't really stand the pace
looking into that smiling face of ...

(Acknowledgements: Melanie Crowley for the book, the band with no fixed name/2 Dogs for the lyric, edited by emma of theclothesstore 26-02-2002)

a range of options

"To study psychological trauma means bearing witness to horrible events. It is very tempting to take the side of the perpetrator. All the perpetrator asks is that the bystander do nothing. He appeals to the universal desire to see hear and speak no evil. The victim, on the contrary, asks the bystander to share the burden of pain. The victim demands action, engagement and remembering."

"The ‘‘I’’ has no story of its own that is not also the story of a relation—or set of relations—to a set of norms. Although many contemporary critics worry that this means there is no concept of the subject that can serve as the ground for moral agency and moral accountability, that conclusion does not follow. The ‘‘I’’ is always to some extent dispossessed by the social conditions of its emergence. This dispossession does not mean that we have lost the subjective ground for ethics."

Oscar Moment

Hi Xxxxxx, First off apologies for me becoming more and more embarrassingly drunk and oafish as the night went on yesterday - I was overexcited...
[...]
I may not have been as much of a friend as I could be over the years, I can be a real xxxxx xxxx but I hope you know I love you very much, I am hugely proud to know you and if there is ever anything I can do for you I would try. Alright, Xxxxx xxxxxxxx over, CONGRATULATIONS and thank you so much. ///Xxxxx

 For hours the specialists considered whether his words showed "true guilt" or "neurotic guilt". They used a language no outsider could readily comprehend as they tried to make distinctions over how much in his case "the human order of being is disturbed", and how far he might have experienced "existential guilt arising from a specific act"