Mystery Guts
Monday, 29th September, 2008
Blog ist sparse right now. I have been working flat out on finishing and bug squashing two projects which need to be done TOMORROW.
Luckily for everyone, Charles Bernstein has proposed the largest poetry bailout since the Victorian era. Maybe these poems I started which turned out to be TOXIC will finally stop burning holes in my pockets.
Monday, 15th September, 2008
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Wednesday, 10th September, 2008
More utter toss from the sh*trag of the nation, the Daily Mail. I swear, this paper is so bad that if my screen weren’t irreplaceably expensive, I’d wipe my arse with it.
Anyone who thinks McCain’s choice for VP is anything but a cynical attempt to woo women voters in what is actually an insultingly token decision is living in a dreamworld. The Mail had previously reported that her presence in the presidential running was a gleaming example of how a woman had risen above the establishment, which conveniently avoids the detail that it don’t get much more establishment than RUNNING FOR FUCKING GOVERNMENT.
How else to have an overly simplistic and shallow sense of feminist power whilst actually reinforcing archaic female stereotypes? By claiming that the beehive hairdo of the pitbull in lipstick is empowering to women! Go for it ladies, rise above your patriarchal oppressors. Get a f*ckin beehive do.
The sad thing about this is that I’m actually regularly reading the Mail’s website at the moment specifically to irritate myself. I can’t help it. It’s kind of like the journalistic equivalent of the acting in Days of Our Lives: so bad it’s kind of good.
Monday, 8th September, 2008
I’m in Arizona, and have just managed to get myself sorted, hence the period of silence from these realms.
Of Itchworthy news is a surprising music gem I just heard whilst catching up with an episode of Late Junction on the iPlayer.1
Scarlett Johansson, THE Scarlett Johansson, has apparently made an album of Tom Waits covers with quite an entourage of musicians. I’ve not heard any of the rest of the album, but her take on “I Wish I Was In New Orleans” is a surprising success. Surprising not only because of the usual caution with which musical adventures by actors and actresses should be approached but also because of the fact that, despite being at practically opposite ends of the vocal-range spectrum, this song, works. An excellent song to be murdered to.
You can check out the archived show on the iPlayer (eek — for one more day only!) here.
EDIT: FYI (and should you wish to skip past the Randy Newman – the song is around the 6:30 mark)
Wednesday, 3rd September, 2008
At McSweeney’s. Genius.
My favourite part:
Polonius thinks this curtain looks like a good thing to hide behind.
Polonius is no longer online.
Monday, 1st September, 2008