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Fell asleep last night after watching two of Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson's Bottom Live videos, and their film Guest House Paradiso, and woke up feeling wonderful.

I swear, therapists should prescribe the work of those two.

In other cool news, a Dr Who drabble I wrote called That'll Put You Off Your Tea has been nominated for the Mauve and Dangerous awards. Many thanks to whoever did that!

Had a pretty miserable night.

Car accidents suck.

Those two statements may well be related somehow, but I'll leave it up to you the reader to figure out how.

Don't worry, I'm not injured at all, just hideously inconvenienced and a bit shaken.

Staying home from 2600. I'm feeling too blah and not very social.

I've just been reminded I never wrote about when Cableflame came to visit a couple of weekends ago, so I'll post a few highlights here...

• Showing her my town's assortment of bars and more bars, with the occasional bar thrown in for variety
• Sarah, the coolest waitress at the Hard Rock Cafe'
• Introducing her to my geeky fandoms, and indulging in hers
• Horribly overtired and punchy browsing through Midtown Comics
• Cable reading aloud from a bloody awful Spider-Man 2 jokebook for kids, which was so painful it was hilarious
• (I'm paraphrasing here...)
  Cableflame: This magazine will freak out the newsstand guy when I bring it to the counter.
  Rob: This is New York City, I bet nothing freaks him out anymore.
  ...
  Cableflame: HA!!
  Rob: *blink blink* Wow, I stand corrected.

A nice young man named David recently had a brain tumor removed. In what may be a first on the Internet, he has posted photos of his own brain surgery to Flickr.

The photos are of course quite graphic, and probably not safe for most workplaces. If you wish, you can view them here.

I am jealous of him. Not because of the brain tumor, because he now has photos of his own brain. How many people can say that?