https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osama_Vinladen

Peruvian footballer Osama Vinladen. Has a brother called Sadam Huseín. Pretty hard to top that.

How common are publicly located defibrillators in the USA? Over here they’re reasonably common, I can’t think of any small village I’ve been in recently that hasn’t had one.

Starting new treatment this evening. Strangely excited. (knowing it's not "CHEMO" helps, as well as how early we caught this, and all the advances in medical science) Hoping the fatigue doesn't keep me from TJO, or Shellac, or the BBQ. And that the nausea is minimal. Kick it’s fucking hea...

Longrow now. Might be my favourite of the Campbeltown single malts.

Arran Sherry Cask, Cask Strength. Very nice.

It’s Vedder. Yarlweh.

Devastating news. What a great man. My sincere condolences to those who knew him.

PS: I'm still hoping somebody is going to upload the Glasgow 1999 gig to youtube in HD quality as the tapes must be somewhere. What a fucking rocketship of a show. I was at that gig and it was even better than the video suggests, also the youtube video misses out about half the set. Completely rele...

Absolutely love them. Completely understand why others wouldn’t.

Not Crap.

I’ve only purposely meditated a few times, but I came to a realisation that fishing scratches the same itch in the sense of being a peaceful but intensely singular focus on something to the extent that nothing else exists. Any sort of river/shore/rock fishing does this for me, probably slightly more...