Thoughts of a Bearded Gent – A Blog by Jodi Mullen

Five weird and wonderful – but most of all, awesome – things I learned about Sweden on my recent holiday there.

So today is Earth Day. Have some Devin Townsend in celebration. Related PostsGhost Cult Magazine Issue 6 Now Available Some Stuff I Have Been Listening To Fear Factory & Devin Townsend Project at the Glasgow ABC Live Review An Omission Best Heavy Metal Albums of the Year 2012

Video footage of a freak tornado in Bray on Ireland’s east coast. Remarkable footage, especially for a town not exactly well known for its twisters!

Peter Steele, inspirational frontman of American goth/doom metal band Type O Negative died two years ago today. RIP Peter Steele.

No Helvetica? Use Arial, lose hipster points.

These people thought the story of the Titanic was purely a work of fiction. What is wrong with the world?

Sainsbury’s Bruntsfield store in Edinburgh will open on an as-yet unspecified date this summer in the old Peckham’s delicatessen unit

In March I completed my whisky resolution 9 months ahead of schedule and made slow progress against my other goals. I also lost another 5.7kg to bring weight loss so far to 17kg in total.

Four records that have been making my earholes very happy indeed over the last month or so, featuring Borknagar, Sigh, Gorod and Cynic.

I’ve very consciously tried to keep my day job stuff off this blog – the world hardly needs another semi-SEO blog – but today saw my first post on the LBi bigmouthmedia blog go live so I thought it was worth a link. It’s looks at blogging as a tool for closing the skills gap [...]