Shahidul Alam released by Indian BSF
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Friday, June 19, 2009
Friday, June 12, 2009
My recent acquisitions (of books).
I bought Ilhan Berk's "A Leaf About to Fall" after I read a post by Nasim Marie Jafry about Salt Publishing.
"The Thurber Carnival" is a medley of humorous sketches and stories by James Thurber (who, apparently, was unable to keep anything in his stomach until he was seven years old, but grew to six feet and one and a half inches tall...)
"Shells" is something of a sumptuous delight of poetry by a young poet called Craig Arnold. There's one in there about Jeff Buckley. Foreword by W. S. Merwin.
"They Can't Ration These" by Vicomte de Mauduit. First published in 1940 from Mauduit's estate. As a country-dweller, I hope to find, what Mauduit calls, "satisfying secrets of self-sufficiency in the necessities of life."
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Olu Johnson, the dumb ass who went on BBC Three's "Blood, Sweat and Takeaways".I don't watch much telly these days, except, maybe, some nature related documentaries, and, very rarely some topical stuff like the one I've mentioned above. I was totally mesmerised by "South Pacific."
Well, anyways, as I was watching "Blood, Sweat & Takeaways," I wasn't quite sure what, if any, altered state was likely to come about in the participants. What I didn't expect is Olu Johnson, described by The Scotsman as, "[a] self-proclaimed nice guy, Olu, in reality an aggressive, arrogant, self-righteous pillock," push Manos Kumar, a fellow participant, through glass panels in the Indonesian tuna factory where they were supposed to learn something about the condition of the Indonesian workers.
Apparently, he's got more of that shit T-shirt he's wearing, and he wants us to buy it from him! If you don't, then, well, then he'll mess you up like Manos Kumar.
Oh, I forgot to spell out what's written on his T-shirt. It reads, "Get Hench or Die Trying." No doubt, one is to take that as bon mots rendered from 50 Cent.
Friday, May 15, 2009
The BNP put a leaflet through my door. I'd urge everyone who gets this crap from those bastards to post their crap back to them without a stamp on in a reusable envelope.
Thursday, May 07, 2009
So, what are we to make of Prof. Wolfram's search engine Alpha? Are we to believe the hype that google's going to be obsolete? :-)
Thursday, April 30, 2009
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