Happy New Year!

Happy new year! If 2007 was a bit shit, I hope 2008 is a bit less so. (I know it’s a bit early but I don’t have computer access again until 2008.)

‘You can’t tell anybody anything he doesn’t know already’

‘I postulate that the function of all art and all creative thought is to make us aware of what we know and don’t know we know. You can’t tell anybody anything he doesn’t know already. Like those folks living on the sea coast in the Middle Ages, watching those ships come in mast first year [...]

Some of my Favourite Things this Year

Here are some of my favourite books, CDs and films from the past year. Now, the criteria for anything to appear here is both that I really liked it and that *I* discovered it this year – not that it was published/released this year or anything like that. I’m reasonably behind the times so the list is anything but up to date. Books: [...]

Katherine Mansfield’s ‘The Garden Party’

Here’s a review of Mansfield’s The Garden Party I wrote a while back. I’ve made a few corrections to it:  Recently, I got a bit caught up reading The Garden Party, a collection of Edwardian author Katherine Mansfield’s short stories. First off, I liked her name. It seems strangely familiar at first, but that’s largely due to [...]

I hate those bloody Foreigners! Think I’ll become one!

The streak of wank that is Morrissey  Why is it that the arseholes who moan about there being too much immigration into the UK, and about how it’s diluting Britain’s distinctive Anglo-Saxon/Aryan culture, always end either up threatening to IMMIGRATE themselves, or like bequiffed indie tosser Morrissey –who’s just got into some bother for opening his [...]