This story was written by Louis Even and brilliantly explains in a simple way the insanity of the money system. The following is a summary of the story’s narrative with my own comments in bold. It should be noted that until widespread attention was given to this subject via the Internet, and possibly still even …
With clothes on my back and a bag and guitar, I travelled one foot in front of another Nothing more, comfortable with the feel of the clothes on my skin Along an open road, cars passed, dust flew up in their wake, and a few particles arrested the progress of my eyes in their natural …
This is not a formal review as such but just a few thoughts on a valuable book which makes telling observations on the underclass (and sometimes merely the unlucky) of society. This book was published in 1933 and is apparently based on Orwell’s real experiences living on the edge of poverty in Paris and London. …
Reflections on ‘Down And Out In Paris And London’ Read More »
A tragi-comedy entitled “The Man Who Didn’t Exist” (a.k.a. The True Story Of “The Bear”) “If ever a story could shock, bemuse and baffle the innocent watchers of T.V’s top-rated show, “Grizzly Bear” (first aired in October 1976), then it is the story of “The Bear” himself, Robin Cheese, for nobody until now has known …
Please note – this post presumes that the endurance feats described did actually happen and were not fundamentally an illusion themselves, and also does not comment on the moral aspects of an unnecessary starvation for no particular cause or officially-stated reason. If this is a problem, I suggest thinking of it as a story …
The Many Sides of David Blaine’s ‘Above The Below’ Read More »
Bullfighting (‘corrida de toros’ in Spanish) is alternatively a ‘blood sport’, ‘barbaric spectacle’, ‘fine art’ or ‘culturally important tradition’ which has existed since at least the 4th century and very possibly for many centuries previous to that. Its continuous existence was largely unopposed until recently, but in just the last 15 years polls have seen …
(to the tune of ‘Wonderwall’) Today is gonna be the day when I plagiarise a Beatles song I’m sure you’ve heard it all before but I’m begging you to sing along I don’t believe that anybody rips the 60’s off like we do now The backbeat, the words and melody are all about the fucking …
notes from ‘War By Other Means’, a film by Australian journalist John Pilger, made in 1991 and released in 1992, with additional observations by this author in bold. Although the film is over 20 years ago, the problem that it addresses is if anything worse than it was then, and the general information it provides …
‘goodbye cruel world, I’m leaving you today, goodbye, goodbye, goodbye’. 5am, an early start. Too excited to think, too excited to sleep. An end, something exciting. Like the day the world changed. I watch those videos endlessly, everything’s going fast, a day no one will ever forget. The room is neat. Everything has been thrown …