Rap genius is going to prove invaluable if my parents ever want me to explain the genre to them.

My mother never goes in for my tasteless jokes.

Oh, mum, you should have known I would learn how to swear at that Catholic all boys’ school you sent me to.

I posted the Christopher Hitchens article that I quoted below on my Facebook profile. In it he muses about his recent cancer diagnosis, and his uncertain future. My mother commented on it, saying simply ‘Take heed’.

I was going to tell her that I could die tomorrow, and frankly if I accomplish 10% of what Hitchens has, and then not make it beyond my mid-60s, it will have been a fulfilling and accomplished life, and that I’d rather live an extraordinary life than a long one.

But I figure she has enough to worry about without knowing that her only child has largely made peace with his own mortality.

Facebooking my momz.

Ultra productive today.

Skyping my moms.

• Regal Marlborough Salmon
• The Economist
• “POLAND”
• Sting
• Eva Cassidy
• Andrea Bocelli

On a related note, she has about twenty or so pictures of me (at various ages) in the albums on her profile; I’m not tagged in any of them. I thought that was awfully decent of her.