beautiful things

• Strawberries in June, local ones, oddly formed but deliciously sweet, brought by a friend
• the Instant Family feeling you get when your film crew gets back together for an afternoon
• bbq-ing, eating, laughing with friends old and new
• new friends who you can foodie-talk with
• "telepathic" understandings with people you haven't even known for that long
• losing your voice at the end of the evening and realising you're perfectly content to just listen because the people you're with are good and interesting company

"The deification of imbecility"

This is old but a friend of mine just posted it on facebook and it's no less relevant because of its age. It goes well with my last post about the media and beauty, and Craig Ferguson is being brilliant.

I give you: "Why everything sucks" or as I like to dub it "the deification of imbecility":