Carl Mortished. The Times World Business Briefing. “Globalisation cannot proceed without losers”. Chancellor of the Exchequer Darling. Companies threaten to quit UK for tax havens. Arthur Scargill. Tony Benn. Questions arise: Are we going to GET it at last? What actually IS this ‘it’ that we are allegedly going to GET? Will we LIKE it?

09h56-BST Thursday 15 May 2008-CE
Carl Mortished in The Times for Wednesday 14 March 2008 says that difficult times currently being experienced by UK, especially in the money market, require Brown and Darling to get enough courage to firmly stand aside and let us cop a right smack in the kisser, by the fist of reality, [...]

Mac-uniform by Bruce Oldfield whose views about the fashion industry are reported by Nicola Copping in Times 2, on 14 May 2008. Daily Worker. Ectomorphs, Diana, Victoria.

06h43-BST Thursday 15 May 2008-CE
Nicola Copping in Times 2 for yesterday interviewed Bruce Oldfield who is aged 57. He designed the new Mac Donald’s uniform which I dislike for its zero communication. I love red white and blue when it comes to Canadian or US commercial institutions. If the operatives who wear gay (old sense) [...]

Peta Bee in The Times 2 on David Cameron pushing buggies and Martin Ward-Platt & Joel Steinberg lecturing parents about exercise for children. Joe Joseph on morals as applied to disposal of old books. If I were to be chucked-out to a desert island I would still be cutting down on distractions. Julie Daniels on “Getting More Efficiency out of Women” in World War 2 is entertained and fascinated but not convinced.

04h30-BST Thursday 15 May 2008-CE
Peta Bee in The Times 2 for yesterday covers pushchairs, aka baby buggies. David Cameron is deemed to be doing the wrong thing by pushing his child in a buggy. Paediatricians Martin Ward-Platt and Joel Steinberg are quoted as disapproving of what they see as unnecessary buggy riding. The quotees miss [...]

BBC News strap hides the earthquake action in viewer video. Sunny days cycling but breeze butts in. Trouble with the in-laws. LiSTED arty-farty council magazine suckers council tax payers and shames the education system in Boscombe surf reef story. EU ‘Combating climate change’ glossy handout tells us the old-old story insisting that humans are gods.

16h57-BST Wednesday 14 May 2008-CE
At 16h30 BBC News first showed amateur video from a motor-cyclist in China taken at the moment of the 7·9 quake. The strap hid significant elements of the picture for much of the footage. What part of “OK, now I know what this is, do you mind if I can see [...]

Johann Hari in Evening Standard, modafinil (trade name Provigil) and Modapro-200, feels as if one is upgraded into a new operating system, liver & immune-system hazard fears, Doctor Peter Venn of sleep studies at Queen Victoria Hospital in West Sussex. Sebastian Shakespeare for Evening Standard on Cherie Blair memoirs. All confessions are interesting but mine may prove mega less interesting than others.

08h23-BST Wednesday 14 May 2008-CE
Johann Hari in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008 reported on his taking modafinil (trade name Provigil). A picture with the piece showed a packet of Modapro-200. It is a brain stimulant and treats narcolepsy where sleep is inconveniently turned on in error. Caution is urged by Doctor Peter Venn [...]

Will Self of Evening Standard declares his unstoppable admiration for “the moral dividend that comes with genuine faith” of Margaret Mizzen with her “raw sympathy, understanding and forgiveness” and her charity, set up with husband John, to educate and train deprived inner-city boys. But why the non-generous mention of Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens who are courageous Defenders of the right to have No Faith, saving people from fear of fictional Hell-fire?

05h32-BST Wednesday 14 May 2008-CE
Will Self in Evening Standard yesterday, identifies himself with people who are “without faith” yet he seems to feel superior to Richard Dawkins and Christopher Hitchens “and all the other professional atheists” who are paid for speaking or writing books. I hope Will Self receives money in return for his excellent [...]

All By Myself has to be the song that will make Malcolm Sergeant like Pop as he ponders his anti-jazz career on a cloud somewhere out there. Garry on GOLD played it. It made my day. Pitman’s shorthand shot me down. John Laughland, Natalya Naranochnitskaya, Spike Milligan, Al Gurnov, Spotlight, Russia Today TV, “the long march through the institutions” that beats naive good guys, the Orange Revolutions that brought Mafia rule to ex-commie paradises…

08h00-BST Tuesday 13 May 2008-CE
Yesterday, I switched on the system to hear ‘All By Myself’ and the old spirits did not half soar. I did not even ruin it by singing along. I just soaked it all in. Good old music! Well done you song writers and singers. Keep on trucking. What a number! I [...]

Roy Greenslade, MEDIA ANALYSIS, Evening Standard, quotes Jeff Randall (of Sky News) in Esquire magazine 8 May 2008. So correct about so much loony slop. So sadly in error about splendid Fox News Channel. Good old Rupert Murdoch! He may not be perfect but with faults like his who needs smoochy poos? BBC mindset of the loony bin corridors. Fife Fogarty flew flags for Forfar for four years. I think I made that up. Trivial comic bits are a vile betrayal.

06h49-BST Tuesday 13 May 2008-CE
Roy Greenslade, writing for MEDIA ANALYSIS in the Evening Standard for Wednesday 7 May 2008, has insider insight to bestow under the headline “Alarm bells should be ringing about the future of TV news”. He fears for the future of regional news; I am not all that bothered about that. He [...]

Nick Cohen of the Evening Standard, and Chief Inspector Mike Neville of the Metropolitan Police, both fiddle with inconsequential factors whilst the crass error of blanket Prohibition continues to drive criminal violence, higher concentration of product, and growing numbers of young addicts. Enact Repeal or die, Western World!

06h05-BST Tuesday 13 May 2008-CE
Nick Cohen in the Evening Standard for Wednesday 7 May chose to believe that CCTV (security cameras linked to a central surveillance studio, rather than the Chinese central television service) “does not work”. Chief Inspector Mike Neville of the Metropolitan Police service had said that “only 3 per cent of crimes [...]

Neil Midgley is TV & Radio Editor for the Daily Telegraph. Ofcom suggest more comprehensive extortion rackets to inflict upon listeners, viewers, and internet users. My return suggestions for Ofcom. Wellington Management. npr. RSC. IBA. EPG. Beeb FreeView fiefdom. CFN. Welsh, Scottish, and Cornish native languages forced upon innocent English-speakers.

06h39-BST 12 Monday May 2008-CE
Neil Midgley is the Daily Telegraph TV & Radio Editor, and on Friday 11 April 2008 he reported suggestions to government by the regulatory body for telecommunications in UK, Ofcom. Go to telegraph.co.uk and find the full story. Neil Midgley reported:
“Internet service providers could face a new tax to help pay [...]

Doctor Patrick Moore wastes his valuable time on Astronomers of the Modern Kind who are sad creatures in error. They do not apply real-world context to their isolated data but rather extrapolate in blinkers. Am I alone in having sympathy enough to try and help the poor souls?

18h40-BST Sunday 11 May 2008-CE
Doctor Patrick Moore was on the TV a couple of nights ago speaking to some astronomers of the modern kind; they have added maths and particle physics to traditional observation via optical & radio telescopes…
If we left Sol behind until it was a tiny star we would have a dazzle-free view [...]

Patrick Gough, Gavin Haines, Daily Echo, Rough Guide, Mark Smith, Tourism, Bournemouth, extremely nice conurbation that normal people like around the bay, Poole Quay traffic curbs and kerbs and crazy crap, Harry at Toko, William at Elements, Sue Reid, Daily Mail, RAD-examination, false accusation, Doctors Hobs and Skelton, good intention, IQ without common savvy, traumatised family. Got no flowers on the wall…

05h42-BST Sunday 11 May 2008-CE
Patrick Gough and Gavin Haines report in Daily Echo for Saturday 10 May 2008 on the latest Rough Guide coverage of Bournemouth which they say is “the nucleus of a vast monotonous conurbation from Lymington to Poole”. I know where Rough Guide are coming from. They take as gospel the posing [...]

War Cry. Bruce Tulloch. Genesis. Scientific method. Stewardship, Positive espousing the garden of Earth without believing such ludicrous stuff such as theism or anthropogenic climate variation. The good guys at the Sally Ann actually believe that Yehoshua meant what he said about looking after the ability-deprived in our midst. British Sky Television are nuts to send me all this expensive junk mail!

08h18-BST Saturday 10 May 2008-CE
Stumbling down Commercial Road hill, yesterday, I spotted the Salvation Army man selling War Cry so I put a quid in the plastic round thing. I had passed by a Big Issue seller because the cover had no name I knew. Bruce Tulloch on page 3 of War Cry 10 May [...]

Roger Davis on Big-L, David Cassidy, Madonna, The Monkeys, David Frost, subjective temporal perception, ageing sucks, Peggy Lee, Nathaniel Cole, how I learned to stop shaking with incandescent fury and accept the BBC when good stuff comes on, Nature Boy, Chicago was as if “the voice of angels from Heaven in answer rang” leave Alabama (Hell) and become somebody, Andy Williams HAD to do ‘Butterfly’ poor guy.

06h19-BST Saturday 10 May 2008-CE
With cup of tea number three, 45 minutes up from bed, I sit down and do the next post. Roger Davis on Big-L played dear old David Cassidy, recorded when he was young and smoochy, asking in song how he could be sure. It sounded exceptionally good. The extra uplift must [...]

KWIL, WCQL, Los Angeles, water closets, Voice of Mindkind, Sol Calling, Oidar Radio, 1980s Radio Nova from Dublin, Southport, Chris Carey, Spangles Muldoon, Peggy Lee doco on BBC 4, Leiber and Stoller, ‘Is That All There Is?’, removal from planet Earth, ‘Fever’, Disc, Music Echo, Benny Goodman, ‘Why Don’t You Do Right?’ slow version in ‘Who Killed Roger Rabbit? Iron Man is very good.

21h17-BST Friday 09 May 2008-CE
One of the things I might do if I won the pools, or the lottery, neither of which I do, would be to set up a radio station. If it were in Los Angeles I might call it KWIL, know what I like. If the FCC already had one, then it [...]

Josef Fritzl, could have been identified and euthanased at age 6, as all such faulty-product needs to be, to keep high standards of quality-control. Declare Law; it is not War. Joe Brown, former fireman, then cover-artist, now Rock-star, can stoke his old Plaistow mates, locos 80078 & 80104, on Swanage Railway if he likes. Camden Council screws you via a mindless robotic machine. ‘Amazing Tales For Making Men Out Of Boys’ by Neil Oliver from: books.telgraph.co.uk is OK but Masada-method is better than white-shark solution.

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09h31-BST Friday 09 May 2008-CE
The approach I follow in this web log is to eschew the whited sepulchre stance and to admit that I am dysfunctional. I committed admittedly minor but no less real offences between 1966 and 1972. Mega-offender, Josef Fritzl, blames childhood environment for his stiff, bullying, & self-righteous attitude, plus his ultra-selfish, [...]

Gillian Reynolds presents a false dilemma in Daily Telegraph for Tuesday 6 May 2008. Now hear this: there are more ways than one to thin a fat cat. The choice is NOT twixt bad and even worse. Ever heard of free and fair?

07h31-BST Friday 09 May 2008-CE
Gillian Reynolds, same Telegraph, covering Othello on BBC Radio 3, fatuously burbles: “All those fools who want to take Shakespeare off the national curriculum [myself included] had their rebuttal here. Even those idiots who wonder what Radio 3 is for had their answer. So don’t write to say this is minority [...]

Will Self in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008 worries whether Boris Johnson has what-is-needed to eliminate the Central-London sufferings of car-drivers and crime-victims. But I believe you DO have the stuff to do it, BJ!

07h33-BST Thursday 08 May 2008-CE
Will Self in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008 desires the “dwellers in the doughnut” (a term he quotes from somewhere to refer to Londoners who dwell not in the inner city) to walk in his shoes because he REALLY has it tough, from car taxes and nuisance crimes, not [...]

Peter Kelner of YouGov online polls, writing in Evening Standard for Tuesday 6 May 2008, explains why YouGov won the pollster test and how the rest can do a better job. YouGov were slagged-off for saying Boris would edge Ken out. But YouGov were correct. The others were sloppy.

05h43-BST Thursday 08 May 2008
Peter Kelner is the boss of YouGov which is the election pollster of the Evening Standard. YouGov accurately predicted the result of the relative positions of Ken Livingstone and Boris Johnson in the election of Lord Mayor of London. The final forecast by YouGov said Boris would win by 53-47 per [...]

www.thepastyshop.com state that they make pasties free from artificial additives. I certainly enjoyed my cheese and onion one from them. A call from Leigh Lady who is still keeping on though the way be long. My first quarter Electric bill was not too bad at all. The theist Hell scam terrifies more victims than ever. TV news is depressing but I do not quit.

18h31-BST Wednesday 07 May 2008-CE
A most amusing thing just happened. I returned from putting the garbage and the recycs in their respective bins and as I opened my door to get back in, Jim Clancey, the CNN man said “Welcome back”, dead on time. He was looking at me too. I was glad I had [...]

South Kensington day out. Central and District Line signal failures. Plodding along that austere tunnel under Exhibition Road. Science Museum. Dan Dare & the Shoving Together of High-Tec Britland. Kensington Gardens. Choc treats. Cromwell Road noisy high speeder. IMAX Space Station 3D seen in full at last. I thought kids sat on adult knees on the tube. Hello Boris!

11h34-BST Wednesday 07 May 2008-CE
Yesterday I took the 07h39 train to Waterloo and the tube to South Kensington. On the Jubilee Line for Westminster, the announcement came that District and Circle lines were badly delayed with signalling failures so I stayed on until Green Park. There I had to board the Piccadilly Line but I [...]

Dan Dare & the Birth of High-Tec Britain, at the Science Museum in South Kensington, with Eagle comic, Frank Hampson, 1950s, the post-blitz days of nationalisation, the post-war struggle to build houses and make appliances. Take your hat off to that big old (De Havilland Comet) jet airliner and the honourable pioneers who flew and fell. History of Computing. Exploring Space. Occasional grammatical let-downs. Again, why do we have all these irritating improvements? Oh yes, we like them. They are nice…

07h42-BST Wednesday 07 May 2008-CE
Dan Dare & the Birth of High-Tec Britain, at the Science Museum in South Kensington, was well-worth taking a good time about. I looked at them with happy approval, the panels reproducing Eagle comic pages from the 1950s of Frank Hampson’s fictional future space heroes, and I read every word of [...]

Bank Holiday Monday, The Times NASA story Astronerds needed, Edwin Aldrin, Michelle Henry, Brats much nicer than Long-Tall-Barbie, Xu Kangping and Yang Ning so charming on CCTV 9 Dialogue, 1947 twin-state solution, Grand Design Show triumph of deckchair party, Natalie Cronin of NSPCC learning TV-talk fast, Labour defeat looms and John McDonnell plays the old game “evil Gordon aint SO bad actually”, HMG spends billions to bash enterprising incomers, Everest torch madness.

08h58-BST Monday 05 May 2008-CE
I intensely dislike Bank Holidays. I have never liked them even when I was working. But at least, these days, the shops open over the midday. I must buy The Times when I nip out to post this, because the Papers on Sky News have trailed an article about Astro-NERDS wanted [...]

The Leader, the would-be bandwagon against crime, robust Buddhism, East End kid, Young Communist, Oswald Moseley & the Mitfords, British Mandate in ‘The Holy Land’ so-called, Channel Isles police, Trafalgar Square, Bournemouth Pavilion, Town Hall Annex, Westover Road YMCA, Blandford, Southport, Cornwall, Hounslow, Safeway’s, failure, Prohibition, destruction on the Promenade, Miami Beach, Muc-Off chain cleaner…

09h54-BST Sunday 04 May 2008-CE
A story in the newspaper in the mid 1970s first brought the man to my notice. He was calling a meeting of any citizens who might be concerned about crime. I attended and was bemused to discover that there were two themes. Not only did he have a lot to say [...]

Nim’s Island astonished me so the trailer must have been just right. Am I wrong to fear what they are planning for Big-L? Cool Geezer could not get help from the spreading hive of Contract World. Doctor Alixe Bovey ‘In Search of Medieval Britain’ is not doing too badly. Will NOC Party really box any chocs or is it all a dram?

08h31-BST Saturday 03 May 2008-CE
Nim’s Island is indeed the title of the movie I saw yesterday. In the previous post I had to call it Nidl Nadl Noo. Oldie folk will recall the dated work of Milligan, Sellers and Seacombe. I needed to see a movie, never expecting stuff as brilliant as the adventures of [...]

Lidl in Sovereign Arcade (mall) will have tough competition from the new Aldi on Palmerston Road. Le ballon jaune et Papa. Louise Jury, Chief Arts bod, Evening Standard, report about the ‘Dan Dare And The Birth Of Hi-Tech Britain’ exhibition running at The Science Museum until 25 October, admission free. Nidl Nadl Noo Island movie opening (here in PBC) is today. Labour local swing (in the backwards direction).

04h51-BST Friday 02 May 2008-CE
Aldi on Palmerston Road opened yesterday and was packed. It is quite a big store for Aldi. The car park is an awkward shape. There are chaining bars for five bicycles. Lidl in the Sovereign Centre had its balloons, primrose yellow with red and blue logo, filled with helium and tied [...]

The annual commemoration is observed, but a few dishonourable morons defy the Holocaust Day siren. Ephraim Hardcastle & Stu Rose are wrong, Jeremy Paxman is correct: M&S underpants are no longer fit for purpose. James Whale puts in a good word for sanity. Mark White on Brainwashing. Silly Sandra Pearce stomped. Brian Masters on Josef Fritzl. Allison Pearson is unfair to Miley Cyrus.

08h07-BST Thursday 01 May 2008-CE
Seven minutes ago we had the annual siren in The Land to commemorate those of the Tribe of Judah murdered by the Hitler gang of racist-fascists during World War 2. Slavs, intellectuals, Christian evangelicals, gypsies, Communists, homosexuals, and handicapped people were also murdered by the Nazi scum. CNN showed it live, [...]

Barak Obama states his case in gentlemanly fashion in respect to the sad phenomenon of Jeremiah Wright. I would call dear old Barak ‘the Big O’ but Roy got there first. I am still trying to work ‘wop bop a loo bop a lop bam boom’ in here somewhere. But Barak is a serious dude that I am getting to dig the more I mention the man. Percy Sledge on Big-L.

09h45-BST Wednesday 30 April 2008-CE
Barak Obama has, despite what critics assert, responded perfectly to the problems created by the unfortunate, obsessed, needle-stuck, hatred-filled, repetitive, yesterday’s-news, silly Jeremiah Wright.
Future-President Barak Obama does not need any time-machine to undo any mess that is bound to occur as people such as Rev (it-up) Wright open the throat throttle.
All [...]

RCI try to enforce bilingualism. Trade-union magazine UNITE #356 reports some moderate, patriotic, Left takes on well-intentioned Tory privatisation approaches and policies which are, in practice, counter-productive, but which Gordon is still failing to reverse, or to modify creatively.

08h28-BST Wednesday 30 April 2008-CE
Today is yet another day when I personally have nothing worthwhile to say, so here goes. I am listening to RCI-1 on Hotbird. Before long it will switch to French in an effort to force me to be bi-lingual and at that moment I will say “ça suffice” and MAKE it [...]

Diana Henderson, Daily Echo: Back Channel bridge money snag. I say the design would put cyclists in peril (remember tramlines?) and it would warp. Stephen Bailey, Daily Echo: Prof Colin Pritchard & Tony Sayer BH Uni, conclusions in British Journal of Social Work, some bad guys are REALLY bad. We knew that. Nature Conservers dodge being proved wrong in their lifetimes. My blog will have its (extremely brief and limited) day, one day.

16h36-BST Tuesday 29 April 2008-CE
Diana Henderson in Daily Echo today reports that the housing market state makes it less likely that the plan for an unnecessary lifting bridge over the Poole Harbour Back Channel will come bear fruit. The join in the two sections is not square across the road but diagonal for arty motivations. [...]

Jon Gaunt doing Papers on Sky News with Eamonn Holmes. McCanns DID admit to Unintended Neglect very early in the case when Kate said “How COULD we have thought that would be safe?” Josef Fritzl is ENTIRELY easy to understand; there is NO puzzle: anyone (usually a lady) who looks at an old guy and automatically sees Father Christmas is cut-off from reality.

08h57-BST Tuesday 29 April 2008-CE
Jon Gaunt did the papers this morning again with Eamonn Holmes on Sky News. Jon was slagging the McCanns and calling them bad parents for leaving their kids alone in a residence. He was right. Eamonn was declining to throw the first stone. Jon was saying that he would be more [...]

Peter Osborne, Saturday Essay, Daily Mail 26 April 2008, Margaret Thatcher versus chattering Establishment snobs, USDAW in Plymouth Guildhall opened my eyes to Union-fascism, my background.

08h40-BST Monday 28 April 2008-CE
Peter Osborne, in his Saturday Essay for Daily Mail 26 April, used a term that I have heard a lot but never used much if at all because I was never sure to whom, exactly, it applied. Here is a quotation from his piece about Margaret Thatcher:
“The chattering classes, trapped by [...]

The Times of London, WILL HODGKINSON, the electric guitar and the Rock Riff. The London Guitar Festival 2-5 May 2008 is at the Southbank Centre London SE1. The Monster Riffs Guitar Lesson is at 11h00 on Saturday 3 May 2008. Grammar-Teds harked the lark but Riffs and Delta was the untold story.

09h08-BST Sunday 27 April 2008-CE
Let me quote from The Times (of London) for Friday 25 April 2008:
START OF QUOTATIONS:
Sounds
timesonline.co.uk/music
May the riff be with you
It may be no more than a repeated series of notes, but the guitar riff is the cornerstone of rock -and WILL HODGKINSON would sell his soul for one
…The rock riff is [...]

Jeff Goodell, Larry Brilliant, Rolling Stone #1050, Google give-away, Jerry Garcia, San Francisco v Los Angeles, Siliconia v Fernandia, human “saving” of System Sol from Galactic Warming is a not-so-brill wheeze that is not going to happen, and that giant sycamore weed goes green again as the night closes in…

07h47-BST Sunday 27 April 2008-CE
Jeff Goodell writes about Larry Brilliant in Rolling Stone #1050:
“Larry Brilliant, the man anointed by Google to give away hundred’s of millions of dollars of the company’s money in the next few years, admits that he’s a deeply flawed human being…
“…he is not talking just about his late-1990s turn as the [...]

E-mail and blog on the same domain. “HELP is no help ‘cos I’m a fool…” (sung to the tune of the similar song by Norman Wisdom).

I went via HELP into ‘email and blog on the same domain’:
It used terms like ‘map’ ‘Domain’ ‘DNS’ ‘MX’ ‘top level’ ’sublevel’ and others the meaning of which I know not, so it was useless to me.
In another sad story: I want to be able to make a web address go blue inside the text [...]

Brian Hiatt, Mick Jagger, Rolling Stone magazine #1050, Shine A Light movie, The Times, promotional supplement on Hull, WW2 blitz, young Brits today will prove equally unswayable, for we unlike sheep are not going astray mate, Sky-TV remaking Blake’s Seven with no winking lights I hope, The Charlie Green Moment on ‘Britain’s Got Talent’ had me doing Restart! I never use the term ‘pants’ because it is… whatever it itself means.

08h38-BST Saturday 26 April 2008-CE
Brian Hiatt interviewed Mick Jagger in Rolling Stone magazine #1050 about the Shine A Light movie, which I have decided not to see because of the close-ups, as mentioned in a previous post. Magger said of the lingering shots: “It was a little bit too much, I felt… …I didn’t care [...]

The shining compassion of Doctor Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World, is recognised by an award from the self-styled ‘supreme master’ Ching Hai. Is Sky 887, the Supreme Master Channel, mostly-harmless? If so, is the harmful-part bad, really bad, or as bad as all the others?

06h34-BST Saturday 26 April 2008-CE
Doctor Alison Cronin, director of Monkey World between Swanage and Weymouth, received a relatively modest but useful donation of money, along with a dust-catching, but no doubt sincerely-intentioned, thing to put on the mantelpiece. It is called the “Shining World Compassionate Award” from a lady who encourages people to call her [...]

Cell (aka mobile) phone conversations out loud in public. Tory Minister found himself to be against the trend. ‘Here Comes Everybody’ is by Clay Shirky (not Hal Chalky as I at first remembered wrongly; but that sounds like a DJ). Jimmy Witherspoon. Television did not put mirror-makers out of business. Sitting on the loo is boring so we all look forward to the invention of teleport (it would have to be really accurate).

08h37-BST Friday 25 April 2008-CE
Noise in public places makes it difficult to hear the person you are calling on your cell phone and you assume he or she cannot hear you either. Before I got one, I spoke by landline to a ministerial assistant at the Commons soon after a Tory Minister had slagged people [...]

Modernist C of E vicars give comfort to the flock despite internal doubts. Is it morally justified to ease the despair of feeble-minded folk at the bleakness of life, by selling them a space-age, fake-science faith about an afterlife of virtual-reality that is a natural phenomenon, allegedly revealed by particle physics? Theist delusions are mostly negative but Natural Afterlife could be blissful and believable delusion.

06h03-BST Wednesday 23 April 2008-CE
Moderate people (if any) of the millions of faiths and sects throughout human history, might be expected to allow that a faith cannot possibly be 100% accurate in its answers to questions such as “What is life all about?” New knowledge brings updates. Should there be an afterlife, mods would be [...]

Dick Hines, Saxon Square, RREEF Alternative Investments, sweeping away street clutter that only ivory-towered architects and design-specialists ever loved but we street-users hated. Clay Shirky in ‘Here Comes Everybody’ defines to whom the future belongs. Another suggestion-box item for geeks. Keeping the faith and changing the Church is not a trustworthy approach to perennial priestly atrocity. If only my friend and one-time mentor K would tell his story!

06h32-BST Thursday 24 April 2008-CE
Dick Hines of CDA, something to do with architects, had something to say about Saxon Square pedestrian shopping area in Christchurch. He claims that the projecting, tiled canopies were popular 30 years ago. In fact, they might have been popular with arty architects, dedicated to following the latest fashion, but so [...]

Adrian John on Big-L, listener Haley, break in transmission, maintain your tranny. Execrable quality of writing in this web log.

08h20-BST Thursday 24 April 2008-CE
I only caught little bits of Adrian John on Big-L this morning, from 05h50. He was reading a communication from Haley who never heard Radio London Big-L before and she said some things like:
“I only just discovered Big-L.”
“I did not know it was there.”
“It is like finding a little treasure.”
“There is [...]

Robert Plant, 40 years after, Skip James, Jonathan Wingate, Big Issue, Cool Geezer, Exmouth Road, Ahmet Ertegun, Blues classics to Rock classics. ‘Here Comes Everybody’ by Clay Shirky explains and justifies the self-absorbed inane posts on my weblog (or another one just like it).

09h30-BST Wednesday 23 April 2008-CE
Robert Plant was on the cover of BIG ISSUE #792 so I had to buy it. The cover piece by Jonathan Wingate was well worth reading. In 1969, Robert Plant (20) became lead singer of Led Zeppelin. I was sharing in Exmouth Road, Devonport with Cool Geezer. He bought the LP [...]

Home town of Lenin seeks new name. Confusion of post-Marxism not helped by hectoring West. Make the Vatican pay compensation from worldwide wealth, no get out. Linda Casey on All Things Considered covers Fairbanks, Alaska abuse by priests. Loners have fewer rights than their future victims. United Nations not perfect after all. Where does human endurance through centuries, decades or years of cruel misrule, all come from?

04h38-BST Wednesday 23 April 2008-CE
Russian Federation is debating whether the name of the home town of Lenin should change its name. That is all I know. I caught the end bit of the piece on Russia Today channel and I have not seen a repeat since. It is nice that normal trivial issues like that [...]

Castlepoint Shopping Centre car park, Castle Lane, Bournemouth. Design Specialist culture takes us backwards to pre-Victorian, primeval-chaos. I do not even LIKE confusing swirly flows. Detailed answers given here. Buses and bicycles (I use both) should not gobble lavish space from cars. The solution to the arty architect, and potty planner, problem lies in the East.

09h43-BST Tuesday 22 April 2008-CE
New things are supposed to be better than old things. The lessons are supposed to have been learned. We are supposed to be some steps further up the ladder. The body of expertise, in any given profession, is supposed to have been added to. But there is at least one location [...]

‘Here Comes Every Body’ by Clay Shirky. Social networks starting to affect all society now. BBC World Service on bio-fuel, and food-adulteration by criminals. Ecology Party (later Green Party) postured as sunshine out of God’s asshole around 1970. Different dirge, but same attitude, nowadays. Ball-points versus Biros in the 1950s. Can you BELIEVE it happened?

07h08-BST Tuesday 22 April 2008-CE
The library phoned me and I picked up the copy of ‘Here Comes Every Body’ by Clay Shirky. He is completely readable. I wish my stuff flowed in the way of a proper writer. I will discuss the content of the book, later, but here is a quotation:
“The centrality of [...]

Will Wheaton with helpful advice on how to write fiction… OK, on how he is coping with writing fiction… Well, just read this and feel better about yourself.

Live at library 13h02-BST Monday 21 April 2008-CE
I love the post by Wil Wheaton below. So many of us could echo what he has to say about writing fiction. I encourage you to go to his site via the last link in the list on the sidebar.
START OF QUOTATION
…in which neil gaiman indirectly reassures [...]

‘The Fabulous Radio Show’ of 1950s Pop, on Forest FM 92·3, does Wednesdays from 22h00 to midnight, and Sundays from 02h00 to 03h00, with Radio-Essex DJ Paul Peters, and record-expert Geoff Kemp. (Nick Churchill reported in Daily Echo.) KFMJ Ketchikan-Alaska is one the USA stations that take the show. Once upon a time, nasty old gangsters enclosed the ‘New Forest’ and commoners could starve. See link on sidebar: forestfm.co.uk

10h22-BST Monday 21 April 2008-CE
‘The Fabulous Radio Show’ on Forest FM can be checked out on forestfm.co.uk but it was also covered in a piece by Nick Churchill called ‘Retro Radio’ in the Saturday Magazine supplement to the Daily Echo (12-18 April edition). See Daily Echo link in my sidebar.
The presenters of this 1950s music [...]

Could this be the last time I go on about Sandbanks and Studland? I don’t quite know. Naturism is no big deal under National Trust and SBUAG supervision. Wartime unexploded ordinance, stinging fish, and biting snakes, are not really such a big deal either…

08h49-BST Monday 21 April 2008-CE
Studland peninsular, and Sandbanks peninsular, which are linked by the Bramble Bush Bay chain ferry, are both the product of sea waves washing up sand and small rivers depositing mud on the back. Studland village is set at the far (south) end of the beach under the line of chalk hills. [...]

Helen Newlove with David Cameron and the loss of state control over morality; Daily Telegraph report. PlayStation version of law and order. Prohibition is ruling over our Decline. Jeff Randall on pervasive nastiness. Military Coup for UK? Join the Chinese Empire? Repeal Prohibition! Will Shell Bay still be there and need me? Downside & Upside of Eternal Life in SkyGuy Hell on Earth.

05h44-BST Sunday 20 April 2008-CE
Daily Telegraph Friday 11 April reported that Helen Newlove, widow of Garry who was kicked to death outside his home up North by game-playing, low-life trash, spoke at a meeting in London hosted by David Cameron. She calls the situation a breakdown of moral and social values. I say it is [...]

‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ was not talking about me after all. Sochi Krasnodar cages for retired space critters not as nice as Monkey World. Simon Warr in Daily Express says university option betrays its promise to the masses. John Hiscock in Daily Telegraph says geeks are the new gods in Hollywood. I liked ‘Hackers’ and Wesley Crusher.

16h30-BST Saturday 19 April 2008-CE
‘Flashbacks of a Fool’ would have been an accurate name for this here web log of mine. I decided to see the movie this afternoon in case it gave me any insight into the movie industry. It was fair enough getting to see how the agent sacked his client before the [...]

Independence Day, The Fifth Element, The Matrix, and the Hollywood positive discrimination agenda. Amazing lyrics of The Who. I thank thee, Luck, that I am not a jealous guy, as other men. Chris Byland on Big-L. David Bowie all along the bar walls or whatever. CosmoFest.

05h41-BST Saturday 19 April 2008-CE
Positive Discrimination has worked well in USA. The government policy aimed to correct the unjust imbalance whereby African Americans remained restricted to poor education and low ranking jobs. Slavery had ended but discrimination and segregation took its place. (In a similar way, Feudalism ended in England but class discrimination took over, [...]

Adrian John fights computer-generated frustration on Big-L. Metamorphosis of Big-L sounds ominously, hideously trendy. Fools seek out and celebrate lies in life. ‘Here Comes the Sun’ and I am mucho glad. David Cameron caught the quasi-religious Anthropogenic bug. “Someone, or something, is trying to destroy everything we have built up over the last 200 years.” Star Trek TNG ‘Coming of Age’ speaks for today too.

08h41-BST Friday 18 April 2008-CE
As Adrian John said, the dropouts in the music, a malfunction of the computer, sounded like musical chairs. He then demanded that we all send in our memories of party games from when we were kids. I have an embarrassing memory of playing Hunt the Thimble. You name something. I have [...]

Pope Benedict condemns USA breakdown of values! Why not break down endemic RC values of hypocrisy & misogyny? Yury Karash (Russian Academy of Cosmonautics) tells Al Gurnov about the giant leaps of Mars. David Thompson (BBC News 24) recognises the need for words that are easy to remember. X3 Bournemouth to Salisbury bus service. Good English in Fordingbridge. Salisbury Museum.

09h30-BST Thursday 17 April 2