Riots - They sound so glamorous but the pictures I'm seeing from Toyland and Craig is Stan just make it all seem a bit I dont know, dangerous and uncomfortable. What's worse, they seem to be campaigning to replace their current dictatorial regimes with their previous dictatorial regimes. So I guess it's true what they say, absence make the heart grow fonder. Hmmmm
Bicycle Maintenance - it initially appears fiendishly simple. Oil this thing, tighten that thing. Buy expensive accessory that is designed specifically not to fit this model of this make. But wait, even better. Buy it off the internet. It's cheaper. And so easy to return. Hmmmmm
Voting - So, I've always been a bit political. I mean political with a small p. Otherwise it wouldn't be good grammer. Unless it started the sentence I mean. This year I find myself residing in the good ol UK of GB & NI. So exciting, my first election. Unfortunately Thatcher is not still in power so I can't vote against her but at least there's Cameron. Such a nice boy. The thing is (a situation very similar to that at home and really these days in most if not all 'civilized' western 'democracies') nobody on offer really stands for much of anything. Politics (with a capital P!) has evolved in the same way that society has evolved. The big questions are what colour scheme do you want yours. It's all the same product with a slightly different colour paint job. It's the model-t ford with options. I want that metalicized one. You know the one, it looks a bit like water with a hint of oil on top. Yeah, I like those ones. I guess that would be the monster raving looney part. Although as I already mentioned, Thatcher is no longer with us.
This was old. I didn't publish it before. It was in draft. So I published it today. Bite me
The title of this post
Sunday, 11 April 2010
Monday, 5 April 2010
Alone in London
Boo hooo hooo. Poor me. All alone in London. Well, me and the other 8 million lords n ladies. For some less clarity on exactish numbers in London I refer you to the wiksperts (i just made up that word, its mine, get off) at Wikipedier . I digress. Can one digress if one has yet to gress. I know not. My point - I recently read Hans Falluda's 'Alone in Berlin'. A thoroughly readable and interesting telling of a 'true story'. Please, don't switch channels. It is, it is.
Falluda himself seems to have lead a life equally worthy of the story being told but his focus in this book is on the efforts of a few 'little people' (not of the Disney variety) to fight against the Nazis from the inside in Berlin ( Alone in Berlin ). It most certainly does not pretend to portray the vast majority as unwilling participants and nor does it ever exaggerate the efforts of those few to an uprising of the many but as a story about people doing something, it grabs your attention and never really lets up. Without divesting too much, our 'heroes' largely fight back through the creation and distribution of postcards questioning the integrity of the political leaders and the wisdom of the war. Makes you think. Well, ok it made me think. A little. In this age of bloggers, microbloggers, vloggers (microvloggers?), twitterers, buzzers (ha ha, ok not so much) and every other form of media and personal electronic communication serving a tsunami of information and opinion every second of every minute of... I thought that maybe a little message on a little piece of paper could maybe strike a chord with someone, somewhere. So that is what I'm gonna do. Watch this space. Well, actually watch the space where the bit of paper is. Oh and read the piece of paper. It might change your world. Oh yes. (I said 'might').
Falluda himself seems to have lead a life equally worthy of the story being told but his focus in this book is on the efforts of a few 'little people' (not of the Disney variety) to fight against the Nazis from the inside in Berlin ( Alone in Berlin ). It most certainly does not pretend to portray the vast majority as unwilling participants and nor does it ever exaggerate the efforts of those few to an uprising of the many but as a story about people doing something, it grabs your attention and never really lets up. Without divesting too much, our 'heroes' largely fight back through the creation and distribution of postcards questioning the integrity of the political leaders and the wisdom of the war. Makes you think. Well, ok it made me think. A little. In this age of bloggers, microbloggers, vloggers (microvloggers?), twitterers, buzzers (ha ha, ok not so much) and every other form of media and personal electronic communication serving a tsunami of information and opinion every second of every minute of... I thought that maybe a little message on a little piece of paper could maybe strike a chord with someone, somewhere. So that is what I'm gonna do. Watch this space. Well, actually watch the space where the bit of paper is. Oh and read the piece of paper. It might change your world. Oh yes. (I said 'might').
Project Restart Engines
From this day forth, I hereby solemnly swear to provide a somewhat less than through analysis of why the world is the way the world is. Others have described this blog as irrelevant witterings (note: the latter group are stinkin losers and fully deserved to be splashed by that passing Austin Montego. I say group, what i mean of course is the scurrilous bunch of wastrels squatting in the left hemisphere of my bonce.) Aaaanyways, onwards and offwards we shall go.
PS If this blog is not updated by this time next week, I hereby commit to diverting all the ill-gotten gains from any advertising on this blog to funding the BNP's election campaign. Aaaaaaah. Incentive enough.
For those unaware of its witty and just out of the oven freshness, i thoroughly recommend visiting The Londonist or subscribing to its tweets for what's hot and what's not hardly hot at all in and around London.
PS If this blog is not updated by this time next week, I hereby commit to diverting all the ill-gotten gains from any advertising on this blog to funding the BNP's election campaign. Aaaaaaah. Incentive enough.
For those unaware of its witty and just out of the oven freshness, i thoroughly recommend visiting The Londonist or subscribing to its tweets for what's hot and what's not hardly hot at all in and around London.
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