After the utter mindfuckery that was the worldwide news in 2011, you would be forgiven for hoping that absolutely nothing happens this year, that 2012 would be just a nice gentle, perhaps somewhat English affair. People not doing a lot, grumbling weakly about the smallest of inconveniences and then retiring to a nice cup of [...]
Last night I sat in front of rolling news and watched the city of my birth on fire, held hostage by marauding thugs and vandals, looters and thieves. I saw the street I used to live on filled with riot police. I saw buildings on fire, and I watched my Twitter feed filling with tales [...]
I was going to do my next 30 day song challenge today, but it seems a little unseemly to me to be writing about a song to have at my funeral when there is so much death around. From the death of a young woman who lost a battle with addiction and whose funeral is [...]
It seems a strange irony that the general increase in engagement with the news in general by the public at large seems to correspond directly with the complete collapse of the news making industry. You see that sentence there? That’s why I will never be a journalist, you know, a proper paid one. But who [...]
Song 22. Thom Yorke – Harrowdown Hill So we rumble on towards the end of the 30 day song challenge with all the enthusiasm of a wounded buffalo approaching a watering hole ring fenced by lions. Once again we find ourselves covering old ground, as I can’t really see the difference between today and ‘day [...]
I suppose with today being the fifth anniversary of Twitter every single blogger on Twitter (that’ll be every blogger in the world then) will be penning a peon to the destroyer of all leisure time, so to avoid this I thought I would share with you an email conversation between myself and a good friend [...]
On the eve of my celebrating a full third of a century of living on this lovely green planet of ours, something excellent has happened. I have finally found myself being able to stand up and say that I am just like one of my all time heroes, Mr Chuck D. I know, I’m as [...]
Cross Blogination is back after a week off, during which time Gray was swanning about raising money for charity like the selfish bastard that he is. But we’re back, and once again we have been given a topic for discussion that is so bloody awful that it makes me hanker for the days when me [...]
Well that went very nicely, thanks to everyone who left messages of niceness on here, on Twitter, on Facebook. It’s always lovely to be the recipient of happy thoughts and congratulations. It makes you wish you had something glorious to announce every day. Maybe I should just start making up accomplishments or grandiose announcements every [...]
I hate priorities. Stupid, no fun priorities, with their sensible button down collars and penchant for the music of Celine Dion and getting your tax returns done on time. Priorities, with their disapproving glares and that little voice they provoke in your head that say ‘Can you really afford that?’ Just a hint, if you [...]
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