Nothing to Report

As nothing much happened today, I thought I'd give a selection of blogs which have surfed into mine over the last few weeks.

Did you know, that in the average 10 minute conversation, each person tells 2.92 lies? Or that Mandarin has more speakers than English? This person collects that kind of factoid.

This young lady is a majorette, who also likes Duran Duran

I like Duran Duran too. They made synthpop with guitars, their lyrics sound profound and mean nothing at all, and they were a boyband from before the term existed and boybands became desperately boring.

Probably the most minimal blog I've ever seen.

Theatrical reviews, in what I think is Portugese, even though the author lives in Spain.

In Spanish. With location listed as "Océano atlántico". Hmmm.

Spanish, gay, film buff. I see a lot of blogs in Spanish, but this is one of the few I wish I could read.


How far apart are heaven and hell?


Amanda works with children.

Some tediously worthy godbotherer.

A more interesting godbotherer.

Though he does write that the reasons christianity has survived is that it's true - presumably all other religions and belief systems that survive do so because of satanic influence.

Actually, he says the bible survives and thrives in spite of being shown countless times to be self-contradictory, counter-empirical, unhistorical and often just plain meaningless. And in a certain sense he's right. The bible is indeed one very convenient source of myriad conflicting justifications for whatever policies of convenience the church of any given time promotes as eternal truth.

However, being full of christian forgiveness as I am, I give thanks for this bit of useful information:

There is a simple way of making lost or stolen mobiles useless to thieves and the phone companies know about it, but keep it quiet.

To check your mobile phone's serial number, key in the following on your phone: star-hash-zero-six-hash ( * # 0 6 # ) and a fifteen digit code will appear on the screen. This is unique to your handset. Write it down and keep it safe.

Should your mobile phone get stolen, you can phone your service provider and give them this code. They will then be able to block your handset, so even if the thief changes the sim card, your phone will be totally useless.
Pop and media trivia in...Dutch, I think.

Zombie movies! In...Dutch, I think.

Sweedish man, interested in natural history, also writes in english, has a girlfriend, and is fond of...zombie movies.

I have absolutely no idea.

Environmentalist science and politics.


Rock music...and lycanthropy. A time honoured combination.

"Here's the news, just the way you like it. Fun. Quirky. Short. All natural ingredients and 100 percent fat free!"

The Doug Kenline Report. The subheading - "Education on freedom and liberty" - tells you you're dealing with a rightwing lunatic. Probably one who feels himself persecuted by the taxman or the monolithic forces of political correctness.

And upon skimming the blog...that's exactly what it looks like.

Money! Great thick throbbing wads of it.

Not illucid, not deranged, not at all psychotic. Just rather difficult to understand, like a diary written to be read only by the writer.

Knitting!
Canadian style!

Some people find my blog through blogspot searches. Some of the more interesting ones are:

*Male Bodybuilders
*Kapitano
*Tony Blair Bisexual (?!)
*Hugh Pew Barney McGrew mp3 Song
*Plain White Ts.net
*Communist Party of Britain
*Winniebago Cocaine (huh?)

and, probably my favourite:
*Alka Seltzers Explosive


Remember I said our little theatrical performance might get one review, probably in Socialist Worker? Well, here it is:

The Investigation by Peter Weiss
by John Molyneux
08/06/2006

The performance of Peter Weiss’s play at the Arcola Theatre in Hackney, east London, on Thursday of last week was a remarkable event.

Based on the Frankfurt war crimes trial, it showed Auschwitz survivors confronting their persecutors.

Every word was testimony, fashioned by Weiss into a six hour drama then edited to a performable two hours by director Waldemar Maxim.

It conveyed with great power the absolute horror of the Holocaust combined with authentic information on how it operated.

It provided real insight into the psychology of the survivors and perpatrators of history’s worst crime.

The excellent performance was entirely by amateurs­, some from Portsmouth where the play was first shown and some from London.

The full house was rather stunned but warmly appreciative. Hopefully it will soon be put on again.



And finally...

Fame at last! Rolling Stone Magazine are aware of me. Well, they're aware of a remix I did in 2004.

3 comments:

  1. Not to my knowledge. There's a sensible part of me that doesn't care, but there's a small, more emotive part that recoils at linking that man to any kind of sexuality at all.

    Imagine being hit on by Karl Rove, Jack Chick or Ann Coulter.

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  2. Let's label him asexual then so as not to have repulsive images in our heads.

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