Account the addups till I do-nots are we balanced? We're in business!

• +h15 15 +3h w0rng.

• The gayest thing I've seen this year. (Ridiculously unsafe for work.)

arkady is back from Wales and tom_pusscat is gone. The house is immediately empty without a cat. Hmm ...

Niamh, Arkady's last rat, is not well at all and will be off to the vet today. In the meantime, our boys are currently fighting over the water bottle. Squeeek is still coughing a lot, but Arkady says the myco will have left scarring and he isn't actually wheezing.

I took Arkady, Niamh and Tom home last night and helped tidy her flat while she got ready for bed. If anyone ever needed an artist's wife, it's her.

redcountess and I were up till two looking at Macintosh pr0n. Getting up for work remains wrong and bad. Consuming caffeine in the pursuit of a day job is a terrible abuse of a drug that should be sipped slowly to start a wired day on one's own terms.

First I tried to kill it with a hammer.

I have a theory (which is mine) of what drives youth socialism. It's not just clueless youthful enthusiasm, it's hormones as well. They're a hotbed of hot beds. Leadership is inherently sexy. Even John Howard has groupies. (Which shows there's not much lower than a political groupie.) Dynamic phrases in a small group with a sense of purpose gets the chicks. Doesn't matter what the purpose is. Younger leaders and followers are also unhindered by clues or experience. I once started reading this history of Australian communism: The Reds by Stuart Macintyre. It completely failed to go into the real cause of all the splinter groups splintering and reforming: the history of your hundreds of People's Fronts of Judaea is someone sleeping with someone that someone else thought they shouldn't have and declaring a schism. And the big draw is: where else are you going to find that many smart young women with shaven heads, overalls, Doc boots and all their original body hair, who are nevertheless mostly heterosexual? COMMUNISM IS CAUSED BY DYKE FETISHISM. Thank you.