Archive for February, 2007

Good Noise: Volume 8

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

This week I’m recommending another 5 signed/established bands who are favourites of mine:
1) I got into this Seattle band 10 years ago when I bought their CD for £2.50 from the used section of one of my favourite record shops (which shut down 6 years ago and I was most upset) simply because the cover […]

Senior citizen snaps neck of mugger

Sunday, February 25th, 2007

Justice meted out Spartan-style or what? A 70-year-old former Marine snapped the neck of a 20-year-old would-be mugger who boarded a tour bus in Costa Rica.
Read the full article here.

Sick little puppies

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

Had to pop to the corner shop tonight to get some sunflower oil so I could fry up some felafel for dinner for me and my flatmate.
I plonked the oil on the counter at the shop to pay for it only to be greeted - well, not so much ‘greeted’, but ‘faced’ - by the […]

Vegan apologetics: Volume 1

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

A brief definition of apologetics:
Apologetics is the field of study concerned with the systematic defense of a position. Someone who engages in apologetics is called an apologist or an “apologete”. The term comes from the Greek word apologia (απολογία), meaning defense of a position against an attack.
(cited from Wikipedia.org)
For some time, I’ve been […]

Where I’d like to go on holiday this year…

Tuesday, February 20th, 2007

It’s not a tropical island…but the Isles of Scilly, a small group of islands off the southwestern coast of the UK. They look so quaint and sweet! It’s very expensive to get there, so if anyone would like to pay for me to have a cutesy week’s holiday there, then please do because […]