I’ve always been amazed that Pullman’s Dark Materials books sell in the children’s section without more hue and cry from the Jesus brigades. Very glad, but quite surprised. SPOILERS IN FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH I love the idea of a whole generation of readers growing up on books where the kids save the world by having sex and killing God. Or, more… Read more →
Month: November 2004
Apparently I am allowed to openly like Waters-era Floyd now
There’s a nice piece at the Guardian about the history of perception of Pink Floyd, that glances off history and current projects of various band members. The key thing is that apparently I don’t have to be embarrassed about knowing all the words to The Final Cut anymore. There’s lots of nice quotes in it: “My big fight in Pink… Read more →
US Dollar Falls…
One of the few upsides that I can find at a very selfish level in the Bush win is that as Bush’s fiscal insanity continues to destroy the US economy (while he pretends to be a “fiscal conservative”) the rest of the world is noticing and consequently the US dollar is dropping. Even though I work for an American company,… Read more →
What it really looks like
(This, of course, does not include all the spoiled and systematically ruined ballots, but only the “official” counts.) Read more →
Mourning Armbands
DOOM
I have spent the entire day in a cycle of rage and despair. That is all. Read more →
Tension
Nothing going on today except election tension. One way or another the campaign will be over tomorrow. Let’s see if the election is. Read more →
