LIKE A GERMAN PARAKEET

From Monty Python’s Contractual Obligation Album (which is the best name for an album ever). Henry Kissinger How I’m missing yer You’re the Doctor of my dreams With your crinkly hair and your glassy stare And your machiavellian schemes I know they say that you are very vain And short and fat and pushy but [...]

OIL RELATED CULTURE JAMS AND POSTERS

Another day another god knows how much spilling into the sea. Here are a series of oil related posters and culture jams I have picked up over the years. If you were the one that made any of them then email me and I will put the link. There are more than just these three [...]

BET YOURSELF TO EXTINCTION

Paddypower and I believe at least one other bookmaker have been offering odds on which animal will be the first to go extinct as a result of the Gulf oil crisis. Thusly demonstrated in the same story are the two meanings of the word “sick”. However, I don’t really find any of this surprising anymore. [...]

AFFRONTERY

During the State Opening of Parliament when the queen has to read what she is told they often have the temerity to talk about modernisation.

INTERVIEW WITH THE GUY WHO SHOED BUSH

Here are the first 2 parts of an interview with the guy who threw the shoes at Bush. The 3rd part will be available here when it is posted…

BUSINESS AS USUAL

Culture Jam spotted in London. Appropiate on this first day of major spending cuts. That said, the ban on first class tickets for civil servants was a good idea.

GREAT MISSING THE POINT MOMENTS IN HISTORY – FOUR – AN AMERICAN PUBLISHER

Another missing the point moment, and this one is a beauty. One of the most ridiculous gaffes in literary history was made by the first American publisher to receive the manuscript of Animal Farm who rejected it because ‘there isn’t much of a market for animal stories in the U.S. at the moment’. The picture [...]

EYJAFJALLAJOKULL VIDEO

A beautiful high definition video of the volcano taken from this youtube channel…

RELEVANCE

Like Karl Marx is supposed to have said though I somewhat doubt it “I am not a Marxist”. However, I do agree with this little piece from Orwell. Looking through Chesterton’s Introduction to Hard Times in the Everyman Edition (incidentally, Chesterton’s Introductions to Dickens are about the best thing he ever wrote) , I note [...]

WHY ALL THE SHOCK AND SURPRISE?

So the talk of the town today is understandably all about who is going to be minister for what and therefore there are obviously a lot of blog posts and tweets informing (or INFROMING, as fox news would have it) about the situation and the rumours. What I find a bit strange today is the [...]