"15 Minutes"

Last week, in one of the free London dailies, there was a picture of a guy riding on the underground, looking like a working stiff-- Ipod earbuds, bored look, wearing shirt and suit jacket with a poppy pinned to it. (As the news story later revealed the photo was taken during November, a time where many people wear the poppies because they are a symbol of Remembrance Day- equivalent to our Veteran's Day). The photo was apparently taken on the sly by a girl from Bavaria visiting London. She was too shy to approach him, but not too shy to take a picture. After returning back home, she apparently regretted being too shy, and started emailing his picture all over the place (the news story says it circulated among 1000s of Londoners), in the hopes that someone would recognize him, and help her to get in touch. I guess the email landed on someone's desk at this paper, they published her story and the photo, and within a day, he was found...Ben Moon, 27, and newly single as of 2 weeks ago. Talk about your timing! The paper is now offering to fly this tourist back to London to have a date with Ben, once the two potential lovebirds have agreed on a weekend. So for a short while here, at least until the date happens I presume, these two have landed themselves their very own 15 minutes of London fame It's a funny old world :)

And in other news, there is actually a serious campaign happening at the moment, sponsored by the Scottish National Party, to have Scotland separate itself from the United Kingdom. More at the BBC web site. So let me add, it's also a crazy old world.