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I have a slightly sore throat so I am drinking what I always drink at such times. Take one large mug into which put:
· Fresh squeezed juice of one medium lemon
· One large teaspoon of English heather honey
· One hefty shot of Kentucky bourbon (Bulleit Bourbon)
· Fill with boiling water
· Stir
· Drink
But what makes this unusual tonight is the large mug in question, for on the side it says: I’m a BITTER Princess. www.bitter-girl.com
And the bitter Princess in question can be found here. She may be bitter, but she is also rather splendid in my not so humble opinion.
Manly philosopher Will Wilkinson over on The Fly Bottle has posted a picture of himself getting in touch with his, um, feminine side.
Three of Samizdata’s intermittent guest contributors are revealed (but not reviled)
 The sinister Andrew Dodge of Dodgeblog infamy.
The mysterious Lagwolf
The ubiquitous Mommabear
The owl man has requested that I post the most recent picture of myself. I think the photo shop goofed and gave me the negative instead!
This is me conferring with my political advisor. I have often been accused of being a libertarian hawk, but perhaps an owl might be more accurate (which presumably means I am wise… or then again perhaps it means I hunt at night and eat mice)
Update: In response to all the e-mails, yes, of course I went to Hogwarts.
So this is me and my famous skidding car that I was in when I had my mishap on an icy road in Austria.
These pictures show two of my favourite things in the background:
First picture was taken on the London Eye by Alice and shows favourite thing number one: London
And the second shows favourite thing number two: Libertarian Alliance pamphlets
I just want everybody to know that I have been forced into doing this against my better judgement. I was perfectly happy blogging away in semi-anonymity but I have now been un-burquered by Perry. He telephoned me tonight and told me that if I didn’t upload a photograph he would have no choice but to use the hood and goggles on me (again!)
This photo was taken about 4 years ago when I took a career break from the law to become a scriptwriter and stand-up comic. It was snapped by a producer at a cable TV company who was going to use it as a part of comedy show promotion. I was supposed to exude street-wise cynicism and moodiness but I’m not entirely convinced that I managed to pull it off
If Dale can get away with an old picture then so can we…so that you (sort of) know what we look like, here is Walter Uhlman and Perry de Havilland back in 1986, before we got older and fatter.
Walter and Perry This was back when we both worked as henchmen for some guy with a white cat called Bloefeld. The pension plan was great but then SPECTRE was involved in a merger with ENRON and the rest is history.
When our esteemed (or steamed?) editor Perry de Havilland put out the photo opportunity call to the Samizdata team, I found my scanner wanting. The scans came out dark beyond Imagemagick’s Redemption. In lieu of something newer, I found this old black and white from a gig of my old Belfast rock band Transit. It’s a decade old, but it will have to serve for the moment.
There is a funny post on the NRO Blog ‘Corner’ by Rod Dreher relating to Lord of the Rings. The final remark is hilarious… but they do kind of have a point!
As Glenn Reynolds on Instapundit points out, it is nice to see National Review On-line deciding to copy Samizdata’s format of multi-contributor blogging. I am sure we were foremost in their minds the whole time 
Update: Cal Ulmann over on Where HipHop and Libertarianism meet has a rather entertaining take on NRO Corner<. Cal wrote:
The Corner on National Review Online is National Review’s attempt at a blog. They don’t want to call it a blog though. I guess that would mean their opinions are no better than anybody elses opinions.
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