music meme from astartesyrica

Instructions: List 7 songs you are into right now. No matter what the genre, whether they have words, or even if they're any good, but they must be songs you're really enjoying now. Post these instructions in your LiveJournal along with your 7 songs. Then tag 7 other people to see what they're listening to.

1. Dougie MacLean--Caledonia
2. Old Blind Dogs--Come A' Ye Kincardine Lads
3. Ellis Paul--Maria's Beautiful Mess
4. Andy M. Stewart--Fire in the Glen
5. Dar Williams--Empire
6. Richard Shindell--There Goes Mavis
7. Silly Wizard--The Queen of Argyll

and, because I could easily cite two or three for every one, alternates:

1. Dougie MacLean--Leis a Lurigan
2. Old Blind Dogs--Is There For Honest Poverty?
3. Ellis Paul--Give In, Give Up
4. Kentigern--The Corncrake
5. Dar Williams--So Close to My Heart
6. Richard Shindell--The Island
7. Billy Bragg--The Milkman of Human Kindness

I tag redactrice, shy_kat, john_arundel, azbound, mazzie, magaidhbhan, poliscidiva.

updated my fotki pages

Some new photos from this spring.

ticket looking for a home

I've got an extra seat for this Saturday's DC United-KC Wizards match. Anyone like to go?

bike and Iraq history

Revision to previous bike entry. The ride was actually a little over 11 miles. With any luck I'll be able to squeeze in a (short) ride this evening after work.

I don't know if I've posted this link before, but one of vatoengland's recent posts made me think of it again. It's a sumamry of an article in Foreign Affairs about the British madate in Iraq between the world wars and how it evolved in terms of British domestic politics and in terms of Iraqi politics. (Sorry, the link is only to a summary; the article itself is in a back issue, so now it's pay-per-view.)

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I've been rewatching Oliver's Travels, of which I am very fond. For many reasons, including that ( he knows a very funny thing about sex. )