One of my friends wrote yesterday and said I'd been quiet and then, "How's the book coming on?"That sums it up. Nearly done rewriting but it's meant less of everything else and people have either drifted away or are a little peeved. At the same time, the internet keeps dropping out. I had tabs for Harry, Ellee, Ross and Bunny up yesterday and tried to comment - phut!
My friend is visiting this morning to help sort all this out.
Snow - last evening two girls I know visited and so that meant going our for a walk but there was a condition they call "lyot pod snyegom" on all the roads - ice under loose snow. Walking along - whoosh - on your back and cracking your head.
This creates the Snow Dance.
Can you imagine maybe a hundred people picking their way along the path, not stepping normally but putting a foot out to the left, a foot to the right, toppling over backwards and the legs peddling as if riding a bicycle, fingers touching the ground for balance then springing into a crouched but basicially upright position?
And absolutely everyone doing it?
Great training for balance and the start of any number of new dance crazes and new relationships. Let me explain - any female within range will grab your arm to keep herself upright and now you have a pas de deux or even quatre at times.
I've resolved to buy that camera and bring you these images but it might be spring before I can find a good store so don't hold your breath.
Have a lovely Thursday and don't slip over.
Politics
Not worth a separate post but very depressing to see the way the Democrat delegates are shaping. In home news, 'Greedy' banks push up mortgage rates. So what's new?
For the most part, it's always owet for the snow to lie down my end - and for that I'm glad.
ReplyDeleteI remember days like that. Having to walk downhill to school wasn't fun. Ever.
Speaking of "home news", two items caught my eye.
ReplyDeleteThe first relates to liar gordons choice of liars to investigate MP funding/expenses, etc.
Rather like foxes in the hen house.
Do we seriously expect anything of worth to come out of a bag of crooks like that. Speaks volumes for the integrity of nulab
The second relates to what is a massive picture of illegal activities by the security services, which will never breath the oxygen of exposure. It also illustrates the world view of a totally politicised, corrupted, vile regime, who seek to trash the character of an employee in advance of any whistle blowing that HE MAY DO IN THE FUTURE.
That also speaks volumes of the shit that exists in our corridors of corruption, ermm, power
Peeved is incorrect, Mr Scizzors.
There is no debate worthy of the name on your blog, merely pre-arranged visits to generate stats, and stupid banal comments. Even the debate by your friends, when they can be bothered, is contrived, at best.
You have chosen to generalise and cover a range of topics. It's your blog.
Don't make the mistake of thinking that all who post here are as stupid and banal as all the "registered" bloggers, so beloved by vermin, who post here.
It's your blog. You may want to run a hierarchical system based on whether some one is certified. Many of your bloggers should be!
I've given you so many pointers to serious aspects, it just beggars belief that you missed them all.
Carry on thinking with your balls, James.
You'll get some nooky in the end.
James sounds fun the snow and slipping around- there isn't any here. Hope the writing is going well old fellow- have fun.
ReplyDeleteAnonymous - I understand where you're at here and the issues you link to ARE vital but you and I are in different target groups.
ReplyDeleteGuys like Simon, John Trenchard, Ian P - these and I are already conversant and agree but the pool of readers is those of a similar bent. In the end this is a small pool.
For the real message behind what is going down to get through to a pool beyond the one you're in - it's not going to be helped by insuklting them. This is a wider group than the already politicized.
Often they'll just read and pass on, often they'll skip over. They have their own agenda and concerns and resist having the real horror of Brownland shoved down their throats.
That's why, if they don't get a steady diest of it, if it's occasional, they might be more inclined to read than turn off.
You're a resource who pops up and presents facts anonymously, deamnding debate. When it doesn't ensue, you assume the message hasn't got through.
Just because people don't comment or make statements of misunderstanding, doesn't mean that twenty others didn't read and take in. It's not so simplistic.
Politcs Lite doesn't have to mean Politics Trite. A non-politicized reader is going to drown if thrown in at the deep end. So a "general" look is often necessary first.
Then they can go to you for the fine detail but I come back again to the point that you can't shove this material down people's throats and get upset if they don't go all the way with you.
Thee's a lot going on which is not apparent upfront. I get e-mails from some people who want me to explain a certain point more which they read, e.g. on the Hutton enquiry. So then I give some of your links to them and links I've found myself.
We also come down to the real constraints of time. I'm in a job where they don't let a person rest and it saps the energy. I do what I can about the important issues when I can.
But don't interpret that as some coiffured mindless blogger touching on issues for their image value. I've long been down on the cabals and the mindless society they've engendered and the posts are on this blog to read.
They don't satisfy someone into fine detail like you but they do open up an issue to people who weren't even thinking about the issue before.
Snow over a muddy beach is good, as at moment you might suddenly sink a foot into the mud beneath...
ReplyDeleteAngry Anonymous strikes again!
ReplyDeleteYou tell me something I already know and then demand debate. For a debate you require someone with a opposing view, as yet I have had none but can take issue with your poor manners.
If I was planning a coup the last thing I'd do is start airing my views on the public internet, especially when the government already has my ilk profiled : Strat Trends (MOD)
“The Middle Class Proletariat
The middle classes could become a revolutionary class, taking the role envisaged for the proletariat by Marx. The globalization of labour markets and reducing levels of national welfare provision and employment could reduce peoples’ attachment to particular states. The growing gap between themselves and a small number of highly visible super-rich individuals might fuel disillusion with meritocracy, while the growing urban under-classes are likely to pose an increasing threat to social order and stability, as the burden of acquired debt and the failure of pension provision begins to bite. Faced by these twin challenges, the world’s middle-classes might unite, using access to knowledge, resources and skills to shape transnational processes in their own class interest.”
Now impress me.
James can you explain why it is depressing to see the way the Democrat delegates are shaping?
ReplyDeletePersonally I'm pleased as I think they would be a disaster in many ways but I'm open for an interesting viewpoint.
Well, finally, someone reads, and there is evidence!!
ReplyDeleteAs i said, James, it's your blog, and you follow your designs.
Nice one wolfie. You've contributed a link, instead of banalities. That's the second link from you.
well done
"Can you imagine maybe a hundred people picking their way along the path, not stepping normally but putting a foot out to the left, a foot to the right, toppling over backwards and the legs peddling as if riding a bicycle,"
ReplyDeleteYes, I can! Hilarious!! Hope their wine bottles were all bubble wrapped ;)
That's how I know I am getting old. I am afraid of falling in the snow and icy conditions! Snow on the ground here quite often this year, including today and me with the wrong shoes on.
ReplyDeleteTake care in the snow dance,although it's an opportunity to "connect" with the opposite sex.
Interest rates up over 9 percent here in Australia and likely heading higher to address inflation. Pain in mortgage land. We locked in for five years significantly lower than this. Lucky.
ReplyDeleteSo much angst over there just now.
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