Not one of those groovy hippies, I’m more a wannabe hippy who tends to have an opinion on pretty much everything

…after my midweek experience with legal highs I went down to the head shop and got some more. I can’t believe how really, really unshit this kind of thing has got.

…when did legal highs stop being so crap? Regular readers will remember the personal service I received when buying a bong for my sister from the local head shop, and after popping in there to say hello today I came away with a few things, purely for research purposes. Two hours later and I must say the research is going extremely well

I lol’d.

I’ve just been reading about Joey Moss, the locker room attendent for the Edmonton Oilers (they’re an Ice Hockey team, you phillistine), who happens to have Down Syndrome. It’s easy to be patronizing about & to Downs sufferers so I hesitate to use the word “heartwarming”, but really it’s the best one for this story.

There’s potential for high drama in the Barclay’s Premiership today as Liverpool face Man U in a clash that we may well look back on as being the season’s biggest decider.

Liverpool trail United by 7 points and the mancs are in stunning form. Liverpool have struggled for consistency but have shown they can beat anyone on the day – a solid win over Man U earlier in the season and Tuesday’s steamrolling of Real Madrid demonstrates that.

I’ll be rooting for ‘pool of course, as all right thinking people would. If we can beat the mancs today the title race opens right up again, and while the maths would still be in United’s favour Liverpool have shown time and again they can come back against all odds. It’d be crazy to confident of a win at Old Trafford, but I think Liverpool will take the day through sheer heart. My prediction: 2-1 Liverpool.

Full time update
4-1 to Liverpool. My prediction was well off. Damn

This morning the confirmation paperwork for the cruise holiday I mentioned a few weeks ago landed on our doormat, and with the day off work (man flu) I had nothing better to do than flick through a load of brochures, excursion timetables and deck plans. Fun times.

Opening the big packet of info from Virgin Holidays was a bit of a surprise at first: Mrs. Hippy & I had done most of our planning around Mediterranean cruises and I thought we’d settled on one of those, so I was a bit confused to see a bunch of Royal Caribbean brochures spilling out into my lap. Turns out the “C” in “RC” isn’t mandatory, and the ship we’re sailing on, “Independence of the Seas”, actually cruises the med.

The brochures & leaflets were boring but I did spend an entertaining afternoon plotting our route on Google Maps, so the second stage of Operation: Cruise hasn’t been a total wash. I’m almost beginning to look forward to this ridiculously expensive boat ride.

Life caught me with one of it’s weird curve balls today, in the form of an email concerning Daniel O’Neil, who, it transpires, was the original owner of the domain residenthippy.com, and tragically was one of the victims of the Virginia Tech shootings. If you’re looking for Dan’s music or the website that was originally at this address you can still see them here.

Good lord. Will someone put this man out of his misery?

As a tutor at the National Union of Journalist’s training body it’s bad enough that he’s making sweeping statements such as “bloggers themselves rejoice in having lower standards“, but when you find out his title at NUJ training is Writing for the Web, well…words fail me.

If you’re not interested in blogging or WordPress you might want to skip this. In fact you might want to skip it even if you are…I’m only testing the new Quickpress feature.

It turns out Thomas the Tank Engine’s porcine slavemaster is doing eight years for kiddy fiddling. Easy to say after the fact, but I never did trust him.