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It’s not strictly a story from this year, but it’s from last Christmas, it’s one of my favourite stories, and seemingly I haven’t gotten around to blogging about it yet… so that makes it more than eligible for the jasonbstanding.com treatment, doesn’t it? Admittedly, I think I’ve already told everyone I’ve ever met, but I…
The way we’d usually run a Whisky Squad session would be to pick a theme, and then select a few whiskies connected with that theme to sample for the evening. Caught up as we were with preparation for the end of year Christmas Dinner, however, we didn’t realise that there would be such demand for…
Weird Al Yankovic is a comedy legend. He released his first parody song in 1976, and has been steadily at it ever since. Far from being mainstream, people claim not to know who he is and yet all seem to know a handful of his breakthrough songs. And whilst touring nearly consistently as well, he…
An uncharacteristically short blog post, in which Jason sums up the 2010 Movember experience, and pays homage to his fellow Movemberers.
Someone really should set up a museum of museums. Y’know, a sort of look through the ages (or at least since the 17th Century, when wikipedia would have you believe musea started to pop up) at the different ways in which humans have elected to catalog and display their antiquities. Not that it’s obvious how…
Drinking whisky is excellent. The more different types of whisky, the better, as far as I’m concerned. The problem however comes about with the acquisition of many different types of whisky – bottles of the stuff are expensive, often in the range between “slightly” and “perilously” so. Many of the higher-end or more accommodating whisky…
““Chlorophyll will only make oxygen in the presence of light. It’s dark in your intestines, and even if you stuck a searchlight up your bum to prove a point, you probably wouldn’t absorb much oxygen in there, because you don’t have gills in y…