Seasons

We've got snow here. Snow is good.

Indeed. We, alas, have no snow, though...

Snow is good...on Christmas/Yule/Winterfest. Now it's kind of a pain for everyone driving around after Thanksgiving. In Chicago we had a train run into a bunch of cars last Wendsday, so I'm not looking forward to more holiday deaths.

But hey, enjoy the pretty snow.

The weekend after Thanksgiving nearly always has horrible driving weather (at least in these parts). Since I've started keeping track, it's been bad 75% of the time. But the snow sure makes everything pretty!

Spectacular video documentation of Leeds intelligence (or lack there of)

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8212038174455494428

(courtesy of google video)

A Leeds Festival!?!? The mind boggles! I think in this usage 'Festival' must be some sort of synonym for 'Culture'. As in mould culture.
Presumably 'Devvo' is short for 'Devolved'.

*cringes* Leeds... festival? *hides*

Ouch.. I think I just felt my IQ drop drastically.. I'm pretty sure I'm dumber for having watched that. And do we even know what the Leeds Festival is about anyways?!

Oh dear oh dear oh dear...I had the strange impulse to find out who Devvon is, since he seems to be such the hero of Leedsfest, so I googled Devvo. It seems he has videos on a site called "fatpie.com" Without thinking, I went to the main site. It is not about the joys of cherry cobbler. I don't know what Devvon does, but we should probably avoid his videos.

Oops. Fat-pie.com is not fatpie.com. Don't leave out the hyphen.

fat-pie.com isn't Devvo's site (let's face it, he'd have about as much chance of writing a website as a a slug would. Even if he could stay off the drugs long enough.) But there's a biography and explanation via the "Devvo" link (http://www.fat-pie.com/chavs.htm)

"Devvo is Darren Devonshire, a "chav" from the Doncaster/Hull area. Devvo lets me follow him around and film his life in exchange for cigarettes, alcohol and small change."

Kinda reminds me of those documentaries you see about zoologists studying gorillas (though that's probably an over-compliment in Devvo's case.) An interesting bit of social anthropology it may be, but not for the squeamish.

He seems to have something of a fan club at http://f-ram.net/fat-pie/viewtopic.php?t=9025 that's probably not for the faint-hearted (photos)

Hmm - I guess it's because he's from Doncaster, rather than Leeds, that he's capable of a nominally transactional relationship (filming in exchange for cigs, drink and small change.)
At least on par with some vertebrates, but it's hard to imagine true Leeds organisms being capable of such complex behaviour.