Anubis the Jackal

PANIC! A dark day for Dunny and a dark day for Deathlist.

A mate has started this rather wonderful tribute site to the lesser-known but often supremely talented bit-part players of stage and screen. http://familiar-unknown.blogspot.co.uk/ A few good names in there for end-of-year lists

...and The Devil is six...

Hmm, that post doesn't look so good out of context, ne'er mind, kudos to 'Arry for a worthwhile thread. I'll try to knock together a list of obit-worthy rockin' types if I get the time/can be arsed.

Sorry to swerve back on topic for a moment, but a gut feeling is telling me that the baddest man ever to pound the ivories, Jerry Lee Lewis, may be not long for this world.

Talking of which, Ringo looked a little gaunt being interviewed about some bloke who died a few years ago on today's Channel 4 news. Not 2012 material sure, but worth keeping an eye on.

...and a little explanation Exposing Student Internet Gullibilty via the medium of fictional Mollusc

Completely off-topic I know, but please take the time to help Save The Pacific Northwest Tree Octopus

Blimey, that was quicker than I thought... Gadaffi flees to Venezuela says odd little bald man.

LINUX Trying to upgrade a handed-down eeepc but seems to be exclusively designed for 1980's computer geeks.

Maybe Wiiliam's estranged Auntie could follow suit, thus helping her previously mentioned weight problems Love the primary school level response to not being invited

Azizulhasni Awang won bronze in the Cycling World Cup Kerin race despite beng involved in a mass pile-up and ending up with ths splinter through his leg. That's got to smart a little

I reckon Big Mo is pretty much fucked now. He won't get any help from Russia any more (which was probably the reason he has been making overtures to The West these past few years) and Libya seems to have pretty much descended into civil war. I'll bet he holds out for a few more weeks then flees for a life of Bunga-Bunga with his chum Silvio and his Ukranian nurse. oh, and hello again.

Why not, Strawberry Alarm Clock, The Chocolate Watch Band, The Lyke Of Wych, they all belong here or hereabouts.

A short article in the free paper this morning A community of dwarves has set up its own village to escape discrimination from normal sized people. Everyone in the mountain commune in Kunming, southern China, must be under 4ft 3ins tall - and they run their own police force and fire brigade from their 120 residents. Now the group has turned itself into a tourist attraction by building mushroom houses and living and dressing like fairy tale characters.