Category: Note Book

I have no idea why, but I feel a strange calling to attend the UK’s first masturbate-a-thon in London next month. I’ll be in London that weekend for The Great British Beer Festival anyway, so to let another great event slip through my hands would be bit of a shame.

Technically I’ve been training for the event for over 20 years – that’s far more preparation than I had for the runs I did last year, and I managed them without doing myself any permanent damage. Heck, I could maybe turn pro if there are any talent scouts there. I’m thinking that spending the next couple of weeks limbering up for the event would be time well spent. ;o)

I found out to my surprise and horror recently that Sugar Free Ribena contains Aspartame, a sweatener that’s been railroaded into the modern diet by fizzy drink companies (usually under the prettier name of Nutrasweet) and now appears in a whole lot of things it really shouldn’t. Like Sugar Free Ribena, for instance – a cordial drink that’s aimed squarely at children.

I know it’s very easy to create anxiety over some food additive due to the simple fact that nobody really has the time to check the ingredients of absolutely everything they consume. However, when it comes to Aspartame, you can and should avoid it as best you can.

Have a quick skim through “Aspartame: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You” if you haven’t made up your mind yet.

Dance, Monkeys, Dance appears to me to be one of the best summaries of the human condition I’ve ever had the good fortune to come across.