THE ACTIVE AND THE PASSIVE

In his piece of absolute f%&king genius Politics and the English Language, George Orwell suggested that we should always use the active instead of the passive in political writing. Most of you will know that if you change a sentence from the active… Shakespeare wrote Hamlet to the passive… Hamlet was written by Shakespeare there [...]

PUPPET SEX

Well, not exactly. And not exactly puppet sex pistols either. But it is Puppet Sid Vicious. I managed to catch the end of this at a busking festival last year so if you have ever wanted to see a puppet dancing to a Sid Vicious song then this is your moment…

SHOPPING

I don’t like to post in just a direct ‘I hate..’ way. I usually try to  put things in another way. This however, is a very direct ‘I hate’ post. The title of this article is ‘Shopping’. I don’t particularly hate shopping. Sometimes it is nice just to wander around. I don’t have the money [...]

SMALL BUT HUGE THING

Political language. . . is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind. – George Orwell It is an interesting thing that most people, when they want to know the truth of a political situation rely on the satirists and not the political journalists. [...]

THIS IS DELIBERATE

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DON’T THROW THAT AWAY

This documentary is incredible. It is called ‘Garbage Warrior’ and is about Mike Reynolds the architect and designer of ‘earthships’.

I’M GOING TO HELL

I made this film 3 years ago. I have a youtube channel, but this one is on a different channel. I just looked at this for the first time in 2 years and I think I am quite proud of it. It had 30,000 views on youtube. Just in case there was any doubt… I [...]

MY BROTHER AND FRANK SINATRA

My brother once had a few things to say to and ask Frank Sinatra. Worth reproducing here I think… 1. It is rude to wear a hat indoors. 2. They did not in fact laugh when Edison recorded sound. 3. Cover versions are your entire career. Write a song. 4. Why did you sing at [...]

GOOD STUFF ALL ROUND

There are lots of good posts around around at the moment so I just want to point you to a few. The Scottish Patient has called it absolutely correct about the Pirate Bay case. The Curmudgeon nicely describes the Ian Tomlinson affair. Wis[s]e Words calls Eddie Mair a sycophantic w*nker. On Exit Stage Right I [...]

THE UNPROFESSIONAL INTERVIEWS COME HOME – Part 3 DAVID ROVICS

Inspired by the nice things  the Curmudgeon wrote in his review of my nepal book, [free to download on the right of this page] I have been interviewing people in a series called The Unprofessional Interviews. They are all published at different places around the web [including opednews.com and www.atlanticfreepress.com]  and I put them on [...]