I'm reading a novel by Iain Pears called Death & Restoration. It's pretty good so far, not unlike An Instance of the Fingerpost, which turned out to be a spectacularly good novel. Well this is one of his mysteries, and the main character just noted that the worse the music people listen to, the louder they listen to it. I've noticed the same thing in my comings and goings, but I would also like to add a corrolary to that statement. When it comes to people, it seems that the less relevant, more insignificant and more wrong the things they say, the louder they seem to shout them. Am I wrong?

This is the view from my couch today... it is not possible that it is possible that this could get any cuter.