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In this dirty old part of the city, where the sun refuse to shine...
...people tell me there ain't no use in trying.
Now little girl you're so young and pretty
And one thing I know is true
You'll be dead before your time is through.
( epic rant, only tangentially about that fucktard Murdoch ) -
Book review - Reinventing Collapse (Dmitry Orlov)
Been meaning to read this for *ages* but had overdosed on the Dark Mountain thing a bit recently. Sometimes a girl likes to kick back, think of the now, and not steep herself in Post-Modernism collapsist theory. Nail polish is also fun, you know ( Read more... ) -
Book review - Shattered: Modern motherhood and the illusion of equality (Rebecca Asher)
Random grab time. This book's selling point is that it is *very* newly published, as in post-Coalition, and obviously I'm interested to see how the bastards screw me personally over their policy effects on women and mothers ( Read more... ) -
Book review - diamond age (Neal Stephenson)
I quite liked this. The best bit was the primer. I liked the mythologising. I didn't like that the book pointed it out to me, but it was nonetheless good. I can see why Gaiman is a fan. The stuff surrounding the primer was kind of random and disjointed and not particularly well-written. Which was a shame as I generally like cyberpunk, and the ( Read more... ) -
Book review - Introducing Postmodernism (Richard Appignanesi, Chris Garratt)
Borrowed this from a friend. See these things, want to be "educated", borrow them, end up head-desking repeatedly. The format is actually ok, if annoyingly funky. It's just, well, not my thing. For a while I felt stupid, then I realised the I can cope with QM and other tricky things. Then I decided it was all a worthless pile of shit (this was ( Read more... ) -
Book review - Cloud Atlas (David Mitchell)
This was lovely. I'm actually going to read and review it again, because it's one of those books that you climb into like a wonderful clear sparkling river and feel like there is some much connectedness happening that you're missing out on. Lots of apparently disparate tales all linked together by subtle threads of interaction. Beautifully written ( Read more... ) -
book review - The Valkyries (Paulo Coelho)
Another semi-random grab off the library shelf - I recognised the author's name and that I've been meaning to read some of his stuff for a while. Then I read the back and it was basically a trip out into the Mojave Desert to find a female Hells Angels chapter, so I was pretty much hooked. I've been to the Mojave Desert, it is awesome, and one day I ( Read more... ) -
Though I die, la resistance lives on...
Despite continuously bitching about the Royal Wedding pretty much since the day it was announced, this morning I woke up feeling fairly benevolent. Or bitched out, depending on your point of view. You know, they're just a pair of crazy, over-privileged in-love kids. And he lost his mum. Know how that feels. Get your happiness where you can, kid, ( Read more... ) -
We haz even more solar tek
Electric scooter is finally back in one piece ready to go for its MOT. Which I still need to book. Sigh ( Read more... )