On the 30th August 2004 I had my green card interview. It was, in the words of the immigration officer, a slam dunk. The card would be with me in two weeks.
It is now almost ten months later and my green card has not arrived. I have a stamp in my passport which is, in [...]
Nagl, a Glasgow-resident sassenach, has posted a collection of three carefully chosen quotes on his blog, Falling Sky. They read rather well together.
Considering the glut of qualified graduates queuing up for a job in the media, is it any wonder people are getting used? Reading this makes me think that my less conventional approach to breaking into the film and TV industry may actually be the better bet.
‘Exploitation is more widespread than ever’ Media Guardian, 11th April, [...]
According to Bono he was "the best frontman" the catholic church ever had. Yes, really. Everyone remotely famous has been queueing up to pay similarly ridiculous respects since Karol Wojtyla, the artist formerly known as Pope John Paul II, shuffled off his mortal coil, ran down the curtain and joined the choir invisible.
So, if John [...]
Or one customer, at least.
A woman bit into a portion of a human finger while eating a bowl of chili at a Wendy’s fast-food restaurant in California, health officials said yesterday.
Officials said the fingertip was about 4cm (1.5in) long and had part of a manicured nail. The woman, who asked not to be [...]
…than curse the darkness.
Peter Benenson, founder of Amnesty International, died on Friday evening.
Rev. Rehash on www.rehashinate.com has a little banner in support of two Iranian bloggers whose government has denied their right to freedom of expression and detained them without trial. Reading the story and doing a little research led me – as these things often do – to investigating the death penalty. Specifically, which countries have [...]
Forgive me for quoting George Monbiot again, but:
The US government has so far pledged $350m to the victims of the tsunami, and the UK government £50m ($96m). The US has spent $148 billion on the Iraq war (1) and the UK £6bn ($11.5bn).(2) The war has been running for 656 days. This means that the [...]
This completely boggles my mind. When I moved over to this side of the pond I thought long and hard about what to do with my mobile. It doesn’t work in the US, but it’s still dead handy when I’m back in the UK. Obviously, I don’t want to be paying twenty quid a month [...]
As a direct result of the US election today, the "Bring Liam Home" fund has opened for donations. All monies raised will be spent on a cheap, no-frills, lose-your-luggage, rudely hostessed flight on a crippled US airline back to the UK. If you donate enough maybe I’ll be able to fly Courtney back too. But [...]