Know Your Place
Monday, January 5
New Year's Revolutions
I like snow. Snow is good. It's snowing here. I just have a feeling it's going to be a good year.
The feeling was intensified this morning when, on a trip to the newsagents, I discovered that pickled onion Monster Munch have reverted to the form in which I knew them as a child.
Ah, that's better. What with bank nationalisation, the ongoing collapse of neoliberalism and the long-overdue banishment of small, fiddly, nancy-sized Monster Munch in stupid post-modern packets, it seems that some small degree of sanity may be returning.
Then, this afternoon, I discovered George Carlin, whose caustic take on environmentalism I find, I must say, rather appealing.
Any regular readers out there, if such people exist, might remember me ranting on a year or so ago, in a Carlin-esque fashion, about the need to move beyond such things; about the pointlessness of the media, and the need for a new publication to challenge both human solipsism and media triviality. In a foolish and heated moment I vowed to go away and start such a thing myself.
I can now report, with some astonishment, that this is actually happening. Great things are afoot. I'm quite excited about them. Watch this space for more. And I may be needing your help, so don't leave town, will you?
The feeling was intensified this morning when, on a trip to the newsagents, I discovered that pickled onion Monster Munch have reverted to the form in which I knew them as a child.
Ah, that's better. What with bank nationalisation, the ongoing collapse of neoliberalism and the long-overdue banishment of small, fiddly, nancy-sized Monster Munch in stupid post-modern packets, it seems that some small degree of sanity may be returning.
Then, this afternoon, I discovered George Carlin, whose caustic take on environmentalism I find, I must say, rather appealing.
Any regular readers out there, if such people exist, might remember me ranting on a year or so ago, in a Carlin-esque fashion, about the need to move beyond such things; about the pointlessness of the media, and the need for a new publication to challenge both human solipsism and media triviality. In a foolish and heated moment I vowed to go away and start such a thing myself.
I can now report, with some astonishment, that this is actually happening. Great things are afoot. I'm quite excited about them. Watch this space for more. And I may be needing your help, so don't leave town, will you?
Posted by Paul at 3:31 PM 
