Mulletmanalive

Discovered that most glue won't survive being brought below 0 degrees Celsius. Might be obvious to other folks, but my mother makes life difficult for me if she can smell glue [doesn't care about dad's gallons of tolulene, bleach obsession or other chemical smells, mind] so its tricky to store it indoors. Bostik Evostick and possibly my pvc fusion cement... RIP guys...

There are certain things in this life that people whom they affect believe everyone should agree with them about. Gay marriage is a big one. I don't want to get into it, but because I'm both strongly for religious autonomy and have a fistful of gay friends, the only strong opinion I can form is "I don't want to get into this," as anything I say becomes a quagmire of political correctness and hurt feelings. I'd happily stay way from it but for one thing; one of my gay friends keeps facebook proselyting about it. The fact that this is mostly in the form of things stating, "if you don't agree with this, you're a bigot," is getting kind of ann

My favourite Shakespeare play, by far, is the Tempest. You could imagine it as one of the earliest Sci-Fi stories, if you like, as unlike Faustus, it concentrates on the ways that power and the alien situation change the people within the situation. Accourding to Clarke [I think], that's the best kind of science fiction, and I agree. The funny thing about plays, is that you can so easily tilt them. Julie Taymore displays this admirably [well, the demonstration is admirable, the film less so] in her 2010 interpretation of the film. I had to see it, as Helen Mirren appeared on a recent BBC documentary about the play, espousing the idea that