John Mortell’s blog

The BBC’s ‘day in pictures’ often throws up some great photos. This one really made me smile:

This new book coming out from David King looks quite interesting and foreign policy have a nice preview of it here. My personal favourite though has to be this one of Stalin:

Thanks to Warren Ellis for this. Alison Jackson and her ‘paparazzi images’. I particularly like the ‘Prince Harry’ ones.

Well,I’m home for xmas so I ‘should’ either be spending time with the family or doing my dissertation *shudder*.. So what am I doing? Watching odd Japanese cartoons. They are pretty cool though…

‘The Apple Incident’

‘The Diary of Tortov Roddle’ – The Melancholy Rain

Granted,they are a bit heavy on atmosphere and what plot there is in the cartoon’s I’ve seen so far are limited,but still,if you like these there are plenty on youtube…

Does this wallet not look like it belongs as ‘Venture Brothers’ merchandise or is it just me?
Venture Brothers
And I really like this photo I took on the N25 Bridge in Waterford City
Waterford N25 Bridge
Also, can anyone tell me how I could scale down those two photos so I could put them as thumbnails on the site rather than as either massive pictures on the main page or just titles? Thanks.

“I’m the proud owner of Karl Rove’s father’s solid gold cock ring.” The Original essay appears here

Via ‘Ectomo.com’ one of those photos that makes you stop for a minute or several… take a look.