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If I was a smarter, funnier guy, or if I'd spent less time partying this weekend and was thus less fried right now, I'd have written something here involving the phrase "I've started so I'll finish". BBC news story.

Mo Mowlam was about the most charasmatic and downright human politician the current UK government produced, and I think will be remembered long after Tony Blair and his like are lost to the past. The Guardian has some choice quotes from Mowlam, but the one I recall best is a story about some insensitive or perhaps simply unthinking person (reporter? fellow politician?) calling her out on the fact that she was wearing, horror of horrors, a wig. Mowlam responded to the effect that she'd just undergone chemotherapy and was suffering the resultant hair-loss, and the questioner shriveled up with the embarassment he or she'd intended to cause. Wonderful.

August 1995: we are in the wilds of Las Vegas, New Mexico, and strych9 is standing up at the disorganised open mic setup that someone threw together reading from Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas, the bit where they're driving up and down the strip in the road whale and Thompson decides that the tires need more pressure.

R.I.P., Thompson.

One of my college friends - now somewhat distant, but still one of the DSPs - died last night. I am somewhat bothered by this, not least becuase he's the first of our peer group to "be no more".

Can you just get it over with and put the fucker in a hole already?