| Tim Robbins +++ |
[Apr. 17th, 2008|12:13 pm] |
"I don't know about you, but show me a starlet without panties getting out of a car and suddenly the world seems a better place ... Let's stop burdening people with facts."
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| Crash Kapow Fzzzzzzzt! |
[Mar. 11th, 2008|02:47 pm] |
Having ridden through most of this year on vast waves of stress, I am now coasting back towards a state where I at least have blood pressure insufficient to boil an eel. This would be wonderful, except that I now have the Bleak™. It seems that stress and I have developed a co-dependent relationship over recent months. I need a crisis or a holiday; can't quite decide which. |
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| ShaWhatWhoNowEh? |
[Feb. 7th, 2008|12:29 pm] |
Just heard on the radio:
"This morning the Archbishop of Canterbury, Dr Rowan Williams, told Radio 4's Today programme that 'sharia law seems inevitable in some parts of Britain'"
Will you fucking God-botherers of all stripes please fuck off.
Leave aside the bizarre irony that the head of the Church of England appears to be advocating the introduction of an absolutist legal system drawn from Islamic teachings, has he lost the plot completely? Perhaps God got on the old blower and told him "Listen, I don't like these brown fellas any more than you, except my mate Allah from the corner shop, he's alright. Anyway, fing to do to keep em quiet is to set up a completely separate society for em within the UK. Bish bash bosh - everyone's happy. Well, apart from a few slags and bummers that is, and who gives a toss about them. Right? Am I right?".
Rowan Willams - mad as an eyebrow
I'm not making any crashing revelations by stating that I'm in favour of a multicultural society and mutual respect between different cultures blah blah etc, but a five year old child could see that you don't achieve that by saying 'one set of rules for you, another for me'. All you're doing in that scenario is creating totally separate societies that happen to live in the same place.
In any case, what possible relevance does the opinion of a fucking bishop, arch or otherwise have to the nature of the rule of law; what is this, 1708? Tell your magic bearded sky-mate to get back in His celestial white cloud van and sling His holy hook. Fucker. |
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| Brainfart |
[Feb. 5th, 2008|12:39 pm] |
| [ | Tags | | | abject horror of humanity, dagnabbit!, don't do dubai, fear! fire! foes!, fingers crossed, fnord, going to hell in a bonham-carter, monster mash, no2id, politricks, raging injustice, things that suck, things which are good | ] |
One of the busier/more stressful weeks I've had thus far. No time to tell you what I've been up to. Instead, here's the important stuff:
1 - Last Saturday my ex-housemate and dear friend Cat "Diz" Le-Huy was arrested on the way into Dubai for carrying Melatonin, a legal drug used to combat jet lag which is available over the counter in most countries including Dubai. He is currently in his eighth day of detention without trial or access to lawyer and has been made to sign documents in Arabic, which he cannot read.
Read more here: http://users.livejournal.com/_yungfuktoi_/306878.html
and here: http://users.livejournal.com/_yungfuktoi_/307357.html
Sign the petition to free him here: http://www.petitiononline.com/cle2008/petition.html
Support the Truth About Dubai campaign here: http://thetruthaboutdubai.com/
2 - Monster Mash Gallery this weekend - this event has been stealing my weekends and driving my partner, ![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif) misstiamaria, who is curating, to the edge of insanity. You fuckers better come along and make it worthwhile!
3 - Join the NO2ID campaign and stand up to the Government's plans to manage your identity.
http://www.no2id.net/getInvolved/join.php |
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| Fuck Facebook |
[Jan. 17th, 2008|12:34 pm] |
So I just deactivated my facebag account and will not be returning. I'm fed up with the sheer inanity of it all, the ceaseless emails about pointless bullshit and most of all I don't want to be a part of an apparently benign application which surveills me to that extent.
I notice that they only give you the option to 'deactivate' your account, meaning it can be reactivated at any time simply by logging in. I did this but also sent them a message requesting that they delete my account and all associated information. It'll be interesting to see how far they respect my right to privacy... |
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| Welcome to Paradise |
[Dec. 18th, 2007|04:16 pm] |
I love the fact that in the middle of the New Spring Gardens Estate (inappropriately pretty name for an unrelentingly grim setting) in Lambeth there is a road called Old Paradise Street, which leads to a dark, rotting hulk of a building which might be some sort of terrifyingly misguided attempt at housing human beings, or may just be a ziggurat to the dark, predatory gods of 1970s rationalism. Every time I walk past a little imaginary vignette plays out in my head:
Stranger: Is this the road that leads to paradise?
Local: Used to, it don't go there no more! |
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| GRIM |
[Nov. 16th, 2007|09:52 am] |
via OBB |
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| Monday Nostalgia Trip... |
[Oct. 29th, 2007|03:13 pm] |
Who remembers having one of these in their lunchbox?
Obviously Space:1999 is a little too retro for me, but it's the only pic I could find of the proper (curvilinear cuboid) shaped flask.
My lunchbox was more likely to have been:
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