Shannon O’Neill

i can feel an actual post coming on… or at least an update. still crazy busy tho, so might take a few days. in the meantime, more videos.

this recently hurt my brain:

meanwhile, my love affair with cardiacs continues. this is from a forthcoming dvd. i wish i wish i could see them play live…

oh, and have you seen this classic? ‘hocus pocus’ by focus, live in 1973:

This made my day:

It’s one of the biggest hits on YouTube, with almost 3 million views.

I love the Internet.

An explanation.

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I’ve been watching TV Carnage. Here’s some more:

Most people believe that a dolphin pours freezing cold water on a tape recorder, but they need to remember how thoroughly the cloud formation beams with joy. For example, some avocado pit indicates that a tabloid competes with a power drill. A scythe secretly admires an incinerated apartment building. Most people believe that some salad dressing feverishly makes a truce with a roller coaster behind a CEO, but they need to remember how single-handledly a South American cheese wheel flies into a rage.

Word. If only I knew what they were selling, I’d buy some.

I know that I’ve written bugger all of substance here in ages (and that’s all I’ll say about that, as there are few things duller than a blogger blogging about not blogging) but I had hoped to regale you with some travel anecdotes.

Unfortunately a strange thing happened to me earlier this week - I lost feeling in half of my left hand, or rather it ‘went to sleep’ with a combination of numbness and ‘pins & needles’. I panicked at first, thinking it might be a stroke - after nearly 30 hours of cramped flight home, DVT was a possibility, so I went to the GP and he did the relevant tests and advised me that it wasn’t a stroke and that I should just rest the arm and it’d hopefully be better in a few days.

Well it’s a few days later and it isn’t much better. Some activities such as writing (I’m left-handed) typing and upper body exercise are difficult and make it worse. I’ve been terrified that it might be the beginning of Multiple Sclerosis (I’ve had both an aunt and an uncle die from MS, and the doctors suspect that my mother now has it - so I’m about as high risk as possible) but searching on the web leads me to believe that it’s most likely a case of Cubital Tunnel Syndrome aka Ulnar Nerve Entrapment or Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome (UTS!).

Hopefully it’s due to some temporary inflammation, but if the problem hasn’t gone away in a few more days, I’ll need to see a specialist. For now I should try to stay away from computers and any other aggravation. So there won’t be much blogging for a while (well it’s not a bad excuse…).

I’ve uploaded lots of travel pics to my Flickr page, and there are still plenty more to come, which I’ll try to finish soon.

In case you were wondering wtf was going on in this scene from X-Men 3:

It’s a reference to this fan video:

Weird. (The second video actually goes for nine minutes, but that two minute excerpt is plenty. Go to YouTube if you want to see the full version.)

Apparently it was quite an in-joke with the filmmakers.

Btw I’m in love with Kitty Pryde (sorry Stephen Fry!). It’s a shame that she, Rogue and Nightcrawler didn’t play a larger part in the films, as they were probably my fave characters in the 80s comix. The way Rogue in particular was portrayed was one of the most disappointing aspects of the films, as I think most fans of the comics would agree.

Don’t inhale food.