GIE’S ME A SAIR HEID

One of the ways in which Scotland is kept away from itself is language. From day one we are taught that sentences like the title of this article are vulgar. I used that particular sentence because of something I remember very clearly from primary school. My friend came in late one morning. The teacher asked [...]

FILM CENSORSHIP AND THE MOVIE CARTEL

This is the third part of an interesting and mostly serious interview with Matt Stone and Trey Parker, the creators of South Park. The interesting part is at about 5 minutes when they are talking about two different reactions they got to their work  from the group that decides film ratings [PG, 12, 15, 18 [...]

OBSERVER INTERVIEW

Here are my answers from the observer interview. 1. What skill(s) would you teach a child to aid their passage through this world? MG: To help them see when they are being lied to, which is not easy and nobody has perfected it yet. Start with 3 questions: Who is telling me this? Why are [...]

TOOTHACHE

I have been interviewed in a collective interviewing thing [deliberate tense confusion follows deliberate genre confusion]. My answers can be found on the front page here for probably 24 hours maximum and then I will post them here. www.mickeyz.net for my interview. My answer to question number 2 is in relation to this Orwell quote.. [...]

THE UNPROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS – PART 3 – DAVID ROVICS

The next in the Unprofessional Interviews series is none other than singer/songwriter David Rovics who I was delighted agreed to do it. You can read the interview by CLICKING HERE. And here is a little song of his to persuade you. WHAT IF YOU KNEW – David Rovics If you knew that the earth was [...]

200,000 UP – THANK YOU ALL

Today my blog went over the 200,000 mark for readers so I just wanted to say thank you to the people who come regularly to see whatever it is I am on about. Hopefully I will be able to post another Unprofessional Interview later to celebrate. Now I just need to figure out how to [...]

SCUNNERT BUT NOT SURPRISED

From the Online Scots Dictionary scunnert – scunnered ['skʌnərt -d, U. 'skʌndərt -d] disgusted, bored, fed up, have ones hopes or expectations shattered And from the blog scunnert-nation [thanks] comes this entirely believable video. You see, if you believe the hype then democratically [ahem] elected leaders are supposed to represent the views of their constituents [...]

THE UNPROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS COME HOME – Part 1 EDWARD CURRENT

I have waited an appropriate amount of time and therefore just want to make the first couple of  interviews I did available on this site too. So it is copy and paste time as I bring you …Edward Current. Inspired by something that was said in a review of my book at Nepal about THIS [...]

SARCASM AS IT SHOULD BE DONE

What piece of work is a man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving how express and admirable! in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? man [...]

A PIG, IN A CAGE, ON ANTIBIOTICS

Fitter happier more productive comfortable not drinking too much Regular exercise at the gym 3 days a week Getting on better with your associate employee contemporaries at ease Eating well no more microwave dinners and saturated fats A patient better driver a safer car baby smiling in back seat Sleeping well no bad dreams no [...]