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Aah, the relief of being in a room with 200 other ESC enthusiasts, and discovering I am not the only one who sings along Carola's Fångad av en stormvind without knowing one single word of Swedish!

Retro bar with Chig and Mike (and Marcus who unfortunately had to leave early) last night for the ESC video [...]

Henri Cartier-Bresson, Cuba 1962 (detail):

Craig McDean, Madonna 2003 (cut out, desaturated, blurred, added grain):

Spot the odd one out:

Orson Welles
Rudolph Valentino

Sigmund Freud
Tony Blair

Chig
George Clooney

Karl Marx
Maximilien Robespierre

All these people were born on May 6th, except for Mr Marx, whose birthday is on May 5th.
Happy Birthday Chig

Why isn't anybody mentioning Salam Pax any more? No posts since March 24th - am I the only one not to know what's happened? Is everybody shutting up because Where is Raed already got too much dangerous publicity from that two-page Guardian spread? If you know something I don't, can you please explain?

update: now (May [...]

I thought I had a good deal with One.Tel (unlimited dial-up internet for 12.99 pounds per month - now gone up to 13.99), but they're now launching a new plan: for 14 pounds 99 there's unlimited dial-up internet and up to six hours uninterrupted gaming or surfing (whereas my "unlimited" plan gets me disconnected every [...]

Does anybody know what this "Banned CD" does exactly? Angel Skinner wants to sell me one, but the link I was sent is broken:

"With this powerful CD, you will be able to investigate your friends, enemies and lovers in just minutes using the Internet. You can track down old flames from college, or you can [...]

There's only a three-minute interval between the first and the last picture. You could almost see the sun moving.
Well, there was not much else moving as I staggered home from Sub South woke up with a stiffy (yes, neck still firmly locked into position) at 5 bloody 35 am.

I'm very very worried. How long can you take a new-ish boyfriend back to the shop for? Dr Bitful and I are hitting the three month mark tonight, and my neck has chosen this very day to get stuck into a coy Lady Diana slightly tilted and bowing position. Very becoming, but it hurts. Badly. [...]

Italy
Hungary

Consulate address in London: 38 Eaton Place
Consulate address in London: 35 Eaton Place

flag: red, white and green vertical stripes
flag: red, white and green horizontal stripes

building: impressive white Victorian terraced, with national flag sheepishly rolled up around pole due to wind
building: impressive white Victorian terraced, with national flag proudly flapping in the wind

Of course, I barged [...]

Nurse: "Right. This vaccination is effective immediately, so you can now go and lick as many bottoms as you like, you have my blessing."

I love the Victoria Clinic for Sexual Health. If only I did not have to fight with three other gay men in the waiting room, to get my hands on this week's [...]