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Just outside St Albans (hertfordshire). Won't lie though, it was a bit disappointing, the actual butterfly house bit was tiny - though apparently their building a bigger eden-projecty type bubble thing at the moment. Still, were some good / massive butterflies which were cool!

DON'T WORRY RUMSTER I got some more cracking butterfly-related shots: ^ The two leaves on either side? Disguised Butterflies. Nuts. And when one landed on my hand: Presented by Trees

HAPPY BIRTHDAY hope you don't find hitting 20 as depressing as I did. (First google image result from searching 'Stunning')

Self indulgence! My day began with a trip to butterfly world I was a very masculine trip Then we looked as some interesting sculpture-things Then went to a field to chill and take indie-kid photos and it was joyous.

They're incredible. The arc de triomphe one especially. And the factory / train one is so well lit. (Btw Goaf, I just friend requested you on facebook so I can stalk and like your photos)

My hair is now dark-er and red-er on a semi-permanent basis.

Such a shame... it was looking so good! Gotta feel bad for the own goal, kind of good that Owen sealed it. I had a quid at 40 - 1 on 3 - 2 Blackpool ha, was looking pretty good for it for a time. I've really enjoyed them being in the premier league, probably lose half their players too. Wonder which club will pick up Adams.

Classic. Ha, it was, on and off anyway please note rain soaked street behind. I should add that it's not my umbrella, as much as masculine as frilly pinkish is. Re: Russler debate - I quite enjoy Good News, kind of like a mix between Newswipe and TV Burp. Better than the latter, not as good as the former, natch. Never seen any of his standup.

Russler!

Yeah, I'm pretty sure I didn't pick up on it when I read it, someone told me a while ago and I totally couldn't remember reading it. Yeah indeed. Got American Psycho on my bookshelf, I'll delve in at some point.

Don't you find out at the end that he's excessively emotional because he was molested by his aunt when he was a kid or something though? Which makes it a bit less simplistic. Was a bit (very) excessive at times though yeah.. and haha judging by the amount of people I know who read it at about 15 indulging the teenage demographic probably worked! Rules of Attraction is the only other Easton Ellis I've read - should warn it's not as good as Less Than Zero. There's a bit you'll definitely like though, you'll know when you read it. Pretty amusing in any case.

Just looked on amazon and they've got the paperback for 4.50, apparently out since the beginning of April. Pretty sure I've been in stones and not seen it more recently, ah well, might order it! And yeah. I think it's possibly partly just the main guy in Less Than Zero is just older, so the characters are a bit less irritating. More solitary than Perks from what I remember too, different general tone, Catcher in the Rye-ish. Heard the Bloc Party song based on Less than Zero? Reading the lines in the book then realising why I recognized them, fun moment. Not a bad song either. http://open.spotify.com/track/4Zoa9rFW3iO8OGUSaJErXv

From what I've heard Handmaid's Tale is pretty great so you're on to a winner with either. I echo your thoughts on both. Emma Watson's playing the lass in the film of the former. I remember bombing through it a few years in a couple days and enjoying it, probably as I was roughly the character's age at the time. Love for the Less Than Zero love. Been waiting for Imperial Bedrooms to come out in paperback (actual paperback, not hardback sized expensive paperback) for ages.

Bitesized narrative killed it for me - or rather, I started reading it a few years ago, but then came to a very neat stopping point at the end of one of the stories and never started on the following one. I should probably get round to finishing it at some point because I really enjoyed them. The one with the lady on the mountain was my fave, if I recall. Want to get on his sci fi too. Read The Wasp Factory, which was good and there are bits, like the one you mentioned, which i recall vividly. Found out my buddy (who I'd assumed never reads anything) has read all the matter books, which is awesome. They're so long looking though. Been mainly stuck on course reading but for fun I've been on Jonathan Franzen's Freedom after every newspaper ever claimed it to be the book of last year. It really was. Just an incredibly well written, really fleshed out story, no narrative tricks, but a focus on drawing and developing characters really well. It's the kind of book that's hard to recommend to people as there's not much to summarize it - it's about an American family, it's about male friendship and it's inherent competitive, it's about relationships, and it just felt deeply interesting commentary on modern life. Massively long, but very much a page turner. So then I bought The Corrections, the book he wrote before, which had similar acclaim when it was released, like, 10 / 15 years ago or whatever. But I can't get into it. About halfways through but it's not got me interested in the same way. Possibly I can't relate to the characters, or to the era it was written in. But I think it lacks something through being more of a 'snapshot' of family life rather than a story which spans half a century and develops. Also read Skippy Dies which was about a boarding school in Ireland and has all sorts of weird elements, drugs, highschool romance, weird bits of sci-fi, which was pretty enjoyable though often the elements didn't tie together that well, and I grew tired of it toward the end (was about 650 pages). Enjoyable enough though. And read All My Friends Are Superheroes by Andrew Kaufman a couple days ago. Short book, just over 100 pages. Just good fun, quirky, though probably not worth £8, which I rarely say about books.

Looks pretty good, though in a can't see-it-lasting-more-than-a-season way. And hello to Jason Isaacs.

I'm still annoyed ABC didn't order a series of the 18th precinct, or whatever it was called. The one with all the BSG people and stuff. Boo. I'd like to add that Zooey Deschanell is doing a TV show, which should be great news But alas it looks mind numbingly terrible.

(I love how this thread potters along at about a post a month) Yeah it's really good isn't it - big fan of HMV books too, I've picked up loads of old ones for like £2! I'm thinking of reading The Island by him, like you I'm a big fan of Dystopias, figure a Utopia must be a really interesting (and probably more difficult) thing to do. Also: Watched Gattaca the other day, very Brave New World inspired, very good watch. Plus is has Ethan Hawke, who's pretty great.

I love. A proper Scott Pilgrimage.

Yeah, it's really good. Really good action too, Kick-Assey in that sense. The mental 9 year olds are great too. Good time for British comedy, what with Submarine the other month and all. Love all the jokes at this guy too. I'd go out there myself if I wasn't so profoundly stoned

Not really, the xbox version isn't a patch on the original, particularly the multiplayer

Had a check on how my this is coming along So stunned.

I love how futile, comon, and never-ending the sub / dub argument arguement is... it's almost as bad as subjectivity / objectivity. That said, I always sub. The Ghibli ones tend to be alright though. On an anime related note: has anything as good as Death Note been made since Death Note? I stopped watching anime a few years ago when I realized that barely anything came close to DN quality. Might go buy Summer Wars at some point.

Does she have outrageously big boobs? I love how the big leftwing newspapers kept banging on about 'mad men fashion'. Totally never caught on.

Yeah motherlover is such a standout I got my digital camera, I'm gonna make your momma do a million poses NOHOMO is an instant catchphrase too... even if it is a bit similar to that Flight of the Conchords one.. Quite enjoy the video for I Just had sex... in fact I love how many cameos they get in general. And Japan is pretty great as a gag - hope it actually gets a video