Thursday 26 March 2009

The Ugly Grimaces of the Latter-day Politics

Politicians are by far best entertainers. They are also most sinister ones.

Gordon Brown, the man who last 12 years spared no time fucking up British economy till it collapsed beyond repair is dashing around saving world's economy. Now what the fuck does he have to tell the world that he should be telling his own country?

It is hard to say whether this beats Tony Blair being a special peace envoy to the Middle East though. I reckon the level of brazen-faced spit-in-the-face kick-in-the crotch gall is about the same in both cases.

Sunday 22 March 2009

Jade Goody's Legacy

Now the extreme poor taste media saga of Jade Goody's televised battle with cancer is over. She is dead, and like The Chaser sings: "Even an asshole turns into a good bloke after death." Her only legacy will be our knowledge that one can make a career based solely on a shameless display of ignorance, bad temper and racism on reality TV. Anyway, rest in peace, Jade!


Friday 20 March 2009

The Real Law of Attraction

A weird observation: the less you care about people, the more attracted they get to you.

Monday 16 March 2009

Gorbachev advises a perestroika to the US

America is in urgent need of its own 'perestroika', says Gorbachev. Clearly, he's aiming at fucking up another country big time.

Georgia to Barackia

Now that Barack Obama is the US President, isn't Georgia going to be renamed Barackia?

Monday 9 March 2009

Ab Fab encounter


Never thought I would do this but here you go: today I spotted Jennifer Saunders driving home from the BBC Centre at White City. It was 5 to 5 PM, I guess she does not care for overtime! I wouldn't if I were her!

Sunday 8 March 2009

BBC and Newspeak

In the foreword to his 1984 Orwell wrote that this was not a criticism of socialism but a warning for British society. A brilliant example of latter-day Newspeak I found on the BBC website:

Taxpayer 'set to control Lloyds'. Then the articles go on how old boys at Lloyds' Banking, a private company, gambled and screwed it up huge time and their Whitehall cronies bailed them out to the tune of 260 billion pounds. Which exactly the opposite if the title, typical Newspeak.

The article goes on. According to BBC political correspondent Carole Walker , many people in Westminster think that
"it would be simpler and easier for the government to nationalise the banks, and that in the long-term it would save the taxpayer a lot of money..." Now how on earth is that going to save the taxpayer any money at all?

Saturday 7 March 2009

Hillary's Clitoris

Russia's Foreign Minster Lavrov was presented Hillary's Clitoris button by its proud owner. The Russian text instead of "reset" (perezagruzka) said"overload" (peregruzka). That did not stop both from laughing. After all, touching the clitoris is an enjoyable pastime for everyone!

For Russia, rubbing the button may mean the long expected cancellation of the plans to put American rocket control facilities in Eastern Europe. America in its turn hopes to defuse Iran's nuclear programmes.

Friday 6 March 2009

Beth Gibbons: The paean of depression

One of my theme songs for the 90s. The creepily brilliant sounds of depression and barely avoidable suicide by Beth Gibbons and Portishead.

Thursday 5 March 2009

Nato woos Russia on Afghanistan

Irony, irony, irony. This life is full of it but it is more fun to see it in major events. Twenty years after the Soviet Union pulled out of Afghanistan Nato wants to involve Russia in its own doomed campaign there.

Why would it, you might ask. After all, it seems quite successful: helping triple Afganistan opium production is no mean feat. Here in London it has reportedly brought the street price of cocaine low enough for everyone to weather out the economy collapse in the best jolly mood.

Ex oriente lux


Who could have ever thought, say 20 years ago that one day all major Western economies would be abating their breath waiting for the news on the Chinese government's next move in the hope of their own economic recovery.

How very ironic: a Communist-led planned economy is yanking capitalism out of its self-created mess.




Sunday 1 March 2009

Voices


Sometimes it seems that all I have left are voices. Voices in my computer. They listen to me, react to what I say, offer their advice. We discuss things, sometimes have arguments. I try make them understand and I guess they think they do but they really don't. I can't help feeling that they have all failed me. VOIP (Internet-based telephony) is great but what's the use of talking now.

It is really my fault they don't have bodies any more. I've kept running from them for years, putting seas and mountains and thousands of miles between us. I was trying to find myself and a perfect place where I would fit but it turns out there is none. All these years I was waiting for the voices to speak to me, speak love I have been looking for but it never came to pass.

But really, the only voice I still have to listen to is hunger. Hunger is my saviour. It's the only force that drives me to get up and do things. Otherwise I would just stay in bed day and night until somebody finds my decomposed corpse. But my hunger takes on very sophisticated forms I have to go through some very convoluted motions to satisfy it. Hunger keeps me alive.