Pig Sty Avenue

Baby Jack O'Lantern , originally uploaded by hampshiregirl . "Baby Jack O'Lantern and PigStyAve. I carved PSA's head into a pumpkin. I hope you like how it came out... Happy Halloween my beloved DMU friends!" Mind you, she's been taking an interest in me for a while: here I am , the subject of some troubled fantasy. Hampshiregirl's a marvellous example of America's leading the world in cosmetic pharmacology. She looks like a schoolgirl, but is actually a former girlfriend of Richard Nixon . Maybe there's a family resemblance? Or something.

I was going to write about this bastard Government's education policy, in a really rather clever macro/micro way. But the evening's worn on, so it'll have to wait. Meanwhile, here's some Stan and Ollie:

foolish spider , originally uploaded by PigStyAve . The sort of photo you take when you're not getting out much.

There are often rows about American politics in DMU on Flickr. One thing that these arguments show is a very clear liberal/conservative, Democrat/Republican divide; unlike Britain, where all three major parties differ only in detail, and the whole business has become a postmodern fandango. American politics seems like much more fun, perhaps because it's all so far away, like Dallas . As usual, HST was on the money . Anyhow, I loved these behind the scenes photos from Time magazine .

10 inch Salvia Divinorum , originally uploaded by PigStyAve . The latest plant to hit eBay. They seem to be going down a storm.

Sickbay , originally uploaded by hoskarsson . Memories of Holy Loch, 1985. Rust buckets, these!

I was going to blog about some extremely distressing news , but instead here's an animation for My Pal Foot Foot . Worrying about your prospects doesn't improve them one iota.