tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12163399746162796052024-03-14T03:11:21.507+00:00Child Without An Eye - The Remixread the thrilling thoughts of a 33 year old
man who should know better
tumbling backwards through the thorny hedgerows
of existence his words will lift your inner light
from candle to sunshine while making sure you miss out on the fluorescent strip bulb
tho'that ain't a promise ite?dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.comBlogger267125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-54713537581202983632009-03-06T08:25:00.000+00:002009-03-06T08:25:43.393+00:00FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Big risks for the insurer of last resort<a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/825cf2ea-09b9-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">FT.com / Columnists / Martin Wolf - Big risks for the insurer of last resort</a><br /><br />The UK government looks increasingly like a python that has swallowed a hippopotamus. In acting as insurer of last resort to the British-based banking system, it is taking on huge risks on behalf of taxpayers. If this turned out to be a global depression, with huge losses for British-based banks, fiscal solvency might even come into question. Can this make sense? I doubt it.<br /><br />...The UK government has to make a decision. If it believes that costly bail-out must be piled upon ever more costly bail-out, then the banking system can never be treated as a commercial activity again: it is a regulated utility – end of story. If the government does want it to be a commercial activity, then defaults are necessary, as some now argue. Take your pick. But do not believe you can have both. The UK cannot afford it.<br /><br /><a href="http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/825cf2ea-09b9-11de-add8-0000779fd2ac.html?nclick_check=1">read full article</a>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-1879529009986242092009-02-12T22:14:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.493+00:00woah this is uncanny<a href="http://alexbalk.tumblr.com/post/72332396/some-wealthy-but-tragically-sad-librarian-will-be"> Some wealthy but tragically sad librarian will be masturbating furiously tonight.<br /></a>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-64217040203338537842009-02-11T22:07:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.494+00:00I met the walrus<object width="480" height="295"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmR0V6s3NKk&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/jmR0V6s3NKk&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="295"></embed></object><br /><br />In 1969, a 14-year-old Beatle fanatic named Jerry Levitan, armed with a reel-to-reel tape deck, snuck into John Lennon's hotel room in Toronto and convinced John to do an interview about peace. 38 years later, Jerry has produced a film about it. Using the original interview recording as the soundtrack, director Josh Raskin has woven a visual narrative which tenderly romances Lennon's every word in a cascading flood of multipronged animation. Raskin marries the terrifyingly genius pen work of James Braithwaite with masterful digital illustration by Alex Kurina, resulting in a spell-binding vessel for Lennon's boundless wit, and timeless message.dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-2099853862449996182009-02-09T12:21:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.494+00:00bank bonus culture<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Business/Pix/pictures/2008/06/02/parkins1.jpg"><img style="cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 630px; height: 390px;" src="http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Business/Pix/pictures/2008/06/02/parkins1.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br /><br />I have heard too many comments on this site recently trying to convince us that the bonus is required because if it is taken away then talent will leave this country..........well the talents that were involved in the banks collapsing please leave the country......sorry if I am wrong but a bonus is meant to be an incentive to perform well....and they havent performed wll so no bonus....also if you want a bonus....then perform well otherwise you dont get one now your in public hands through your lack of ability to perform......if amateur economists on this site in their spare time could see the banks error 4 years ago then the talent at the top is a joke...........it really makes me sick all this talk of the great talent we have in our banks and that its justifiable to pay these bonus because of the "Nature" of banking and trading.......wrong........I would like to be there when one of these bankers goes to hospital to have an op.......to be cared for by a nurse on a wage which is a small fraction of his bonus........then for the nurse to pay her tax into his fat pocket for doing a job incompetently.....that is not justice do not try to dress it up as so........<br /><br />FROM THE FINANCIAL TERRORISTS AT WWW.HOUSEPRICECRASH.CO.UKdwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-18799571110842289082009-02-05T19:27:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.495+00:00she<p>she loved me</p> <p>she loves me</p> <p>yet how could this be</p> <p>we weren’t we were we?</p> <p>maybe she was right</p> <p>and men don’t know</p> <p>I feel peace when I give her the right</p> <p>to be right</p> <p>so men don’t know</p> <p>and in low moments</p> <p>when empty hallway and dry toast is all</p> <p>then yes</p> <p>I can see</p> <p>that she loved me </p> <p>that she loves me</p> dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-52946068380211192742009-02-05T19:23:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.495+00:00this road leads to smog<p>a dirty little road, </p> <p>with picnic wrappers in the gutter</p> <p>and I dawdle </p> <p>but its dusty and gravelly and it turns and </p> <p>veers over hills and disappears</p> <p>I’d make more progress on a bicycle</p> <p>but walking is my style</p> <p>hold on there is someone else</p> <p>hallo </p> <p>hallo </p> <p>and?</p> <p>what</p> <p>do you have something to say? I ask full of hope</p> <p>yes</p> <p>you may begin</p> <p>blood flows blood flows blood flows blood flows</p> <p>no time for a jedi teddy</p> <p>can I borrow your mush eddie (machete)?</p> <p>in this wonderful world</p> <p>hold on</p> <p>in this beautiful world </p> <p>hold on</p> <p>hold on</p> <p>hold on</p> <p>hold on</p> <p>hold on</p> <p>hold on hold on with a grip so tight </p> <p>it dams my blood makes my head feel light</p> <p>blood flow blood flow</p> <div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:460df35e-7998-4d68-82f9-7fef25db6fd8" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px">Technorati Tags: <a href="http://technorati.com/tags/smog" rel="tag">smog</a></div>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-52209796917192766852009-02-05T19:12:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.496+00:00hand eczema<p>Srtike out a coiling serpent poisoned umbrella handle.</p> <p>Clasp tight scrolls and curves and wishes and spell burned autographs.</p> <p>Curdle sweet memories in today’s horrorzone.</p> <p>A pond of fear. How deep? How dark?</p> <p>A tree stump, cut back too much, it never grew back.</p> <p>They don’t wink at me in the morning.</p> <p>A smile is a once monthly gift and usually with strings attached.</p> <p>My real prize is painful skin, </p> <p>I can’t grasp, couldn’t think of picking up the guitar.</p> <p>Like the Singing Detective living in my right hand.</p> <p>Curse you!</p> <p>My name is not JOB.</p> <p>Fuck OFF.</p> dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-21700836811401298762009-02-05T16:19:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.496+00:00Testing out Windows Live Writer<p>I just found out about this blog writing tool. </p> <p>Quite interesting I can see my words being written in the context of the blog. </p> <p>So Let me try something out.</p> <table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="2" width="400" border="1"> <tbody> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">Blog Posts</td> <td valign="top" width="200">Blog Readers</td></tr> <tr> <td valign="top" width="200">115</td> <td valign="top" width="200">3 if you’re lucky</td></tr></tbody></table> <p> </p> <p></p> <div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:66721397-FF69-4ca6-AEC4-17E6B3208830:e8076317-34f0-426a-895f-b01cb42776ca" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"><a style="border:0px" href="http://cid-076c97737a4d93f1.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?page=browse&resid=76C97737A4D93F1!119&ct=photos"><img style="border:0px" alt="View Hampstead Heath January 09" src="http://lh5.ggpht.com/_u5dfvcRD0bA/SYsRmGmNa7I/AAAAAAAAAEE/QcottuzBojM/InlineRepresentation3f4d463878eb47a0.jpg?imgmax=800" /></a><div style="width:400px;text-align:right;" ><a href="http://cid-076c97737a4d93f1.skydrive.live.com/redir.aspx?page=browse&resid=76C97737A4D93F1!119&ct=photos">View Full Album</a></div></div> <p></p> <p></p> <div class="wlWriterEditableSmartContent" id="scid:5737277B-5D6D-4f48-ABFC-DD9C333F4C5D:aee50285-01a7-4c9e-8c18-85b510679004" style="padding-right: 0px; display: inline; padding-left: 0px; float: none; padding-bottom: 0px; margin: 0px; padding-top: 0px"><div id="9893e399-b4ab-41b9-8030-b8a9a0324512" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; display: inline;"><div><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPTdu0eu5Bc" target="_new"><img src="http://lh4.ggpht.com/_u5dfvcRD0bA/SYsRm6ZNgvI/AAAAAAAAAEI/3c6r4KeUtWw/video8c7ea19f95d1%5B2%5D.jpg?imgmax=800" style="border-style: none" galleryimg="no" onload="var downlevelDiv = document.getElementById('9893e399-b4ab-41b9-8030-b8a9a0324512'); 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You can download these from the android marketplace built into the phone.<br /><br />Music:<br />Streamfurious:<br />This simple online radio player can be filled with all shoutcast pls streaming stations of your choice. It comes with a built in selection , mainly techno and hiphop, but the world is your oyster when it comes to stations. It has BBC World service but I'm not sure that other BBC stations can be added as they are real media/windows media streams. <br /><br />Last FM<br />A great player for the Last FM website where you can listen to your personal taste in music as well as others while reading about the artist playing and lining up future gig details - perfect/<br /><br />Shazam<br />Most new sony erricson walkman phones can do what shazam does. <br />Identify the artist and title of a recorded song playing from an external sound source such as a car radio using the phone's microphone. Nifty if you missed the name read out by the dj. <br /><br />GMote<br />This can be used to start music and video files on your home computer. <br />It acts like a remote control. <br />You will see a list of albums on the phone's screen. The files are on your pc's hard drive. Click on one and music comes out of the pc, incredible. It can also be used to stream those PC songs and play them on your phone. It has a nice interface which adds the album art to the background of the controller. <br /><br />Ringdroid<br />Use this to slice a section from any of your mp3 files on the phone to create new ringtones or alert sounds. <br /><br />Arnold sounds<br />Just a bit of fun . Phone a friend and play famous Arnie Schwazernegger quotes to him or her.<br /><br />Communication Apps<br /><br />Chomp SMS <br />Gives the screen a touchscreen keyboard for quick texting without unsliding the <br /> hard keyboard. You also see a nice conversation style format of previous texts from the same contact scrolling down the screen. <br /><br />HulloMail (UK only at the moment)<br />A visual voicemail app. <br />This syncs with your email account and sends you an email with a small mp3 file with<br /> the sound of your voice message on it.<br />It is all accessible from the phone using the HulloMail app or by checking Gmail (which I use).<br />By the way there used to be a service like this back in 1999. I would get land line voice messages sent to my email for free while I was otherwise enagaded surfing the net with my 56k modem.<br /><br />Google Mail/ G Talk/ Calendar<br />Being a google phone these apps are already installed. <br />I already use all three so it is quite handy for me.<br /><br />Apps that use GPS Global Positioning <br /><br />Qype Radar<br />This is great. Find out where nearby pubs, restaurants, places of interest etc are in your local vicinity, works very well and includes reviews and a link to a map.<br />Loads of content here in the UK.<br /><br />Various barcode scanner shopping apps like Shop Savvy<br />I haven't really tried these. You can scan a barcode of an item in a shop and see <br /> how much it costs elsewhere, newrby or online.<br /><br />Camera<br />You can add your gps data to photos you take. Later when you upload to <br /> a site like flickr, you can view all your photos positions on a map.<br /><br />SkyMap<br />Out and about where the sky is clear at night?<br />Use this app to help identify the constellations above.<br /><br />Other stuff<br /><br />Wifi Scan<br />Find hotspots when you are out and about for faster data access that <br /> is also outside of your phone contract's data limit. <br /><br />Steel<br />A great browser with a touch screen keyboard.<br /><br />Video player and Youtube for your mob vid needs (if you have them)<br /><br />Sticky<br />Create sticky notes. There are other "to do list" and notes apps that I haven't tried yet.<br /><br />PixelPipe<br />This is great for uploading photos to any of your online accounts <br />such as flickr blogger and facebook.<br />Send to all at once or choose your selection.<br /><br />There are a few games out there too nothing that amazing, <br /> but enough to waste time if that's your thing. <br /><br />I mainly love the music apps, <br />Last FM and StreamFurious. <br /><br />This phone doesn't yet have any apps to read and write office documents like <br /> windows mobile phone's do. <br />It's not a business phone and <br />it's not a pure consumer phone either. <br />One for the geeks with small gonads I reckon so count me in! <br />I'm impressed!!<br /><br />edit to add:<br /><a href="http://en.androidwiki.com/wiki/TextOnPhone">textonphone</a><br />this is a really brilliant app, <br />download ebooks in a really great sharing community <br /> environment, then read them on your phone. <br />This app is really well developed, check it out, <br />I think its fabulous!!!!dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-44912673461479651222009-01-25T02:30:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.497+00:00John Waters gives Barry Obama some advice - hilariousthis is funny as f**k<br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7849026.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7849026.stm</a>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-61524665869140924782009-01-25T02:19:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.498+00:00Tony Benn sticks it up the BBCTony Benn is quite rightly appalled by the decision by the BBC not to broadcast <br /> a charity appeal in aid of the victims of the savage attack on Gaza.<br />Watch him tear into the BBC in this BBC TV interview<br /><br /><a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7849026.stm">http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7849026.stm</a>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-23119909746568382412009-01-24T00:43:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.498+00:00first g1 photo<div class="pp_items"><div class="pp_item"><h4><div align="center"><img src="http://static.pixelpipe.com/dd1aaf29-a0d8-4fcb-abc2-bac10c81fae3_m.jpg" style="max-width: 100%;" /></div</div><h5>Posted via <a href="http://pixelpipe.com">Pixelpipe</a>.</h5></div>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-83530803072752097932009-01-22T17:01:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.499+00:00President Obama News (video)<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS-_yPFYWlI&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/MS-_yPFYWlI&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-33932128577135609312009-01-14T00:21:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.499+00:00white phosphorus - gazaGaza – Ma’an – Everything was on fire; houses, sheds, trees. <br />Ma'an News Agency Jan 13, 2009<br /><br />Bombs, too, were everywhere, and with them came the white clouds. White phosphorous, the doctors are now saying, but that's disputed in Israel. <br /><br />But for sure it was a night of terror. We were terrified. We thought we were going to burn to death. <br /><br />Bombs were everywhere. That's what 27-year-old Fadia Al-Najjar kept saying. She's from Khaza'a; she was telling us what kind of horrific night she and her family had just gone through. <br /><br />While explaining what had happened, Fadia stood next to her paramedic husband Ghanem, now surrounded by other medics, desperately struggling to save his life after he was caught in an airstrike unlike he had ever seen before. <br /><br />Ghanem was incapacitated while on duty trying to bring injured Palestinians to the hospital. There had been calls reporting mysterious white smoke in the latest airstrike, and Ghanem was dispatched to attend to the wounded. He was on duty when he inhaled some of the smoke. <br /><br />"The shelling with phosphorous bombs started in Khaza'a. Two of the bombs hit the area around our house,” Fadia explained. She recalled how the fire spread quickly throughout the home, and white smoke billowed out the windows. <br /><br />"Neighbors were screaming, asking for help; the fire was changing," she remembers. "I woke up my kids, got them to my parents’ house, hoping to find a safer place."<br /><br />"But the real catastrophe was two hours after we had moved to my parents’ house; bombs hit their home too and the fire spread everywhere. The top floor was burnt completely.”<br /><br />It's not just her husband Fadia keeps watch over. In fact, the young mother has to split her time among the hospital's many wards. Her children have also been hospitalized.<br /><br />"They wanted to burn us alive inside the house. There were 40 of us in there. Men, women, children,” she recalls of the second bombing. "We could hear their bodies burning." <br /><br /><br />"We didn't know where to go. Our house, my parents' house, my in-laws' house? All were burnt, damaged, destroyed. But where can we go in this weather? It's very cold."<br /><br />Zakaya<br /><br />Another relative, 51-year-old Zakaya, said she struggled to make sense of the chaos and confusion of trying to find her injured family members at Nasser Hospital in the northwest of Gaza City. <br /><br />Zakaya told Ma'an that she barely remembers what happened, "but at about 10:00pm we heard explosions in several areas of Khaza'a, coming closer and closer."<br /><br />"We live so close to the border wall [targeted by Israel], so we were just so afraid; our fear reached a maximum level." <br /><br />"The children were asleep, so I tried to wake some of them because I felt our home was no longer safe," she says. "And all of the sudden bombs fell all over our two-story house." <br /><br />"White smoke filled the house, and suddenly fires were spreading inside," Zakaya explained while checking on her children at the hospital's intensive care unit. <br /><br />"We started screaming; we were so scared. I started to get the kids outside but the bombing went on and six more bombs fell on our house." <br /><br />After the sixth bomb hit the home Zakaya and those her family was able to get out of the home were forced to abandon those left in the building. The fire was too hot and the smoke too intense and no one could get back inside. <br /><br />"The smoke was spreading so fast; we couldn't see through it. We couldn't see, but we could hear.” From the windows of the burning home the cries of her children and cousins filled the streets. “The cries were not just from my home, but from the neighbors' house too."<br /><br />Paramedics arrived and evacuated some of the last who were rescued from the building. They braved the smoke and were able to rescue a few others before the entire building was engulfed in flames. <br /><br />Adel<br /><br />According to 48-year-old Adel Kdeih, the night was calm before the bombs hit. Now that he knows what it was, that it was phosphorous, "it just makes the situation that more horrible." <br /><br />Kdeih came hurrying to the hospital to check up on his children injured by the phosphorous, but he also remembers how tired he was. He was in great shock, numb, when he told Ma'an how the "dozens of incendiary bombs fell on civilian houses." <br /><br />"We could hear women and children screaming in fear," he says. <br /><br />Many of the bombs fell on the courtyard of his house. "I hurried inside the house to wake up my twelve children. I was able to evacuate the house with the help of paramedics and others from the [Hamas-run] civil-defense team."<br /><br />"When I was evacuating the house I saw a lot of houses and fields being burnt, too,” he recalls. <br /><br />The doctor<br /><br />Dr Yousef Abu Ar-Reesh, the medical director at Nasser Medical Center, said more than 90 patients were brought in for burn treatments Sunday night. <br /><br />"Most of them were skin burns, lacerations and deep wounds. A lot of them came in choking, unable to breathe," he explains. <br /><br />He explained that as far as he can tell the Israeli army is using two kinds of bombs,"The first causes severe skin burns and leads to death, as with 41-year-old Hanan Al-Najjar here, and others."<br /><br />"The second kind leads to suffocation, congestion, the inability to breathe.”<br /><br />Dr Ar-Reesh said that he cannot confirm that the bombs are white phosphorus, since there are no specialized laboratories in Gaza. The eyewitness reports and the type of injuries he has seen in the hospital, however, worry him. <br /><br />"What is certain” he said, “is that the Israeli government is using a new kind of bomb and explosives that Palestinian medics have never even heard of." <br /><br />"Not even the Arab medical teams who just arrived can give us any support," he says. <br /><br />The doctor pointed out that the wounds and burns are "terrible and horrific." <br /><br />"And they can lead to death, as with Hanan Al-Najjar, who burned to death when a shell directly hit her body.” <br /><br />When asked if Israel is deliberately using weapons that are illegal under international law for use against civilians, Dr Ar-Reesh chooses his words carefully: "I can't rule that out."dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-23782845330940143712009-01-12T10:42:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.500+00:00Temporary School Of Thought<a href="http://www.temporaryschool.org/">Temporary School Of Thought</a><br /><br />a space where people come together to share knowledge, non-descript skills, tactical imagination, creationism, passive action. a week long event of mutual learning, leftwing bias, free lectures, inert radicalism, workshops, discussion and film screenings.dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-58851072419020917172009-01-11T11:52:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.500+00:00LEARNING TO MAKE AN ‘OUD IN NAZARETH by Ruth PadelLEARNING TO MAKE AN ‘OUD IN NAZARETH<br /><br />Published in The New Yorker, 27th October 2008<br /><br />The first day he cut rosewood for the back,<br />bent sycamore into ribs and made a belly <br /> of mahogany. Let us go early to the vineyards<br /> and see if the vines have budded.<br />The sky was blue over the Jezreel valley <br /> and the gilt dove shone <br />above the Church of the Annunciation. <br />The second day, he carved a camelbone base <br /> for the fingerboard. <br />I sat down under his shadow with delight.<br /><br />The third day, he made a nut of sandalwood, <br />and a pickguard of black cherry.<br /> He damascened a rose of horn <br /> with arabesques <br />as lustrous as under-leaves of olive beside the sea. <br /> I have found him whom my soul loves. <br />He inlaid the soundhole with ivory swans,<br />each pair a Valentine of entangled necks,<br /> and fitted tuning pegs of apricot<br />to give a good smell when rubbed.<br /><br />The fourth was a day for cutting <br />high strings of camel-gut. His left hand <br /> shall be under my head. <br /> For the lower course, he twisted copper strings <br />pale as tarmac under frost. <br /> He shall lie all night between my breasts.<br />The fifth day he laid down varnish. <br />Our couch is green and the beams of our house<br /> are cedar and pine. Behind the neck <br />he put a sign to keep off the Evil Eye.<br /><br />My beloved is a cluster of camphire <br />in the vineyards of Engedi <br /> and I watched him whittle an eagle-feather, a plectrum <br /> to celebrate the angel of improvisation <br /> who dwells in clefts on the Nazareth ridge <br />where love waits. And grows, if you give it time.<br />Set me as a seal upon your heart. <br />On the sixth day the soldiers came <br /> for his genetic code. <br />We have no record of what happened.<br /><br />I was queueing at the checkpoint to Galilee.<br />I sought him and found him not. <br /> He’d have been in his open-air workshop -<br /> I called but he gave me no answer - <br />the selfsame spot<br /> where Jesus stood when He came from Capernaum <br />to teach in synagogue, and townsfolk tried <br />to throw Him from the rocks. Until the day break <br /> and shadows flee away <br />I will get me to the mountain of myrrh.<br /><br />The seventh day we set his wounded hands <br />around the splinters. Come with me from Lebanon<br /> my spouse, look from the top <br /> of Shenir and Hermon, from the lions' dens. <br />On the eighth there were no more days. <br />I took a class in carpentry and put away the bridal rug.<br />We started over <br />with a child’s ‘oud bought on eBay.<br /> He was a virtuoso of the ‘oud<br />and his banner over me was love.dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-62814826472695368242009-01-10T21:51:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.500+00:00Stag's Head - Still sorely missedThe best Athlone pub outside of Athlone! Full of Athlonians and acolytes on weekends in the good old days of the late 80s/early 90s when I used to go there regularly.<br /><br />YOu can see the exterior and interior of the Stags as it was 20 years ago on "Completely Pogued", a bonus documentary on the DVD of the Pogues live at the Town and Country Club in '88 (it was broadcast on Channel 4 a couple of times in the 90s.)<br />Report this for removal<br />MadMick - 3 Jul 2008 15:05<br /><br />The best Athlone pub outside of Athlone in the 80s and early 90s. The saddest pub closure of my lifetime - not having been to Camden for several years I was totally shocked on revisiting a couple of years ago to discover that the Stag's had joined the late great pubs in the sky. RIP.<br />Report this for removal<br />MadMick - 1 Jul 2008 15:05<br /><br />Yes, a sadly missed pub. To rub it in, the block of flats conversion is now called "The Stags Head Apartments". Shameful.<br /><br />There's a pub nearby on Royal College St that's had exactly the same treatment, ie, closing down and being called The Black Horse Apartments. I reckon there's someone contemptible out there who's doing this for a living. Let's get a mob together and lynch the fucker.<br />Report this for removal<br />travis - 22 Feb 2008 20:03<br /><br />I loved this place, my second home for 4 years when I lived in london. Bert was a one off, a real gent and his staff/family were the salt of the earth.<br />We will see less and less of this sort of pub and that is a tragedy.<br />Report this for removal<br />scaldy - 11 Feb 2008 03:42<br /><br />this was my favourite in the world ever.<br />maybe it was Bert and family (Landlord)<br />maybe it was the hearth fire<br />maybe it was the great music<br />maybe it was all the regulars<br />maybe it was the lock-ins<br />maybe it was the pool table.(I know there was no place but that part of the craic)<br />maybe it was the back yard<br />maybe it was the quiet weekdays.<br />maybe it was the saturday afternoons which drifted into evenings and late nights.<br />maybe it was all the wonderful diverse people who were likely to meet. or maybe it was Noreen. but whatever it was it is sadly missed. It's likes will never be seen in London A part of me died the day they closed the old place down.<br />Report this for removal<br />shancoduff - 8 Sep 2006 16:41<br /><br />Sadly missed. Was a great place with top Guinness and great live Irish music particulalrly on Sundays. Good place to warm up after a day at Camden/Stables market. Spent many a good night there and met my missus there. Certainly irreplacable.<br />Report this for removal<br />pdavis500 - 9 Apr 2006 13:56<br /><br />"The greatest little boozer"<br /><br />The Stag's closed more than a year ago now and I'm still in mourning. It's not even a gastro-pub but just converted into flats.<br /><br />Its like will never be seen again. Irreplacable.<br /><br />Thanks for a some unforgettable times Bert Griffen.<br />Report this for removal<br />ThierryHenry - 2 Nov 2005 11:20<br /><br />Great, just what Camden needs yet ANOTHER gastro pub. The Stags was a fantastic place, especially the music. Unfortunatley, it's happening all over the borough. Sad days indeed.<br />Report this for removal<br />Mat Delort - 6 Sep 2004 11:30<br /><br />Very sad to hear this is closing down. Unfortunately 'anonymous' has been rather naive. Apparently its closing down for four months and will re-open as a gastro-pub. Great!<br />Report this for removal<br />Owen - 15 Jun 2004 17:18<br /><br />sorry to hear that the stags is closing down...the best irish pub in london..great traditional music<br />unique atmosphere. diverse clientele and the best bar staff in the world<br />Report this for removal<br />brian tinley - 21 May 2004 20:47<br /><br />end of era!!! Bert sad to see you and your family leave the best pub in camden! lets hope the new owner leaves the stags as it was under Bert<br />Report this for removal<br />anonymous - 5 May 2004 12:13<br /><br />This pub is one I dont like to tell many about, on the other hand it deserves the recognition for been a real taste of what Irish bars should be in london (less commercial, tacky waxy o conors/o'neills) It is like steeping into a pub at home! I love it great food and the guv is a great guy! Great Music too and all welcome to play! Long may the inn in Camden be!! P.S happy St. Patricks Day guys!!<br />Do chara<br />K<br />Report this for removal<br />Karen - 17 Mar 2004 14:58<br /><br />Lovely place. Warm, cosy and great atmosphere. More pubs like these please!<br />Report this for removal<br />Steve - 15 Mar 2004 13:44<br /><br />A personal favourite of mine. A dying breed for sure, so long may it remain unchanged – I shudder when I recall what has happened to practically all other Camden pubs.<br /><br />It’s hard to find, which is a good thing, though well worth the effort if you’re a right thinking sort with excellent taste in pubs.<br /><br />Report this for removal<br />Steve Harper - 13 Feb 2004 14:13<br />One of the last proper Camden pubs, friendly, great atmosphere - but keep it a secret.......<br />Report this for removal<br />Derm - 14 Jan 2004 10:29<br />Does this place still do the Thai food? Nice pub in an unpromising location. Bonus points for real fire, loses half a mark though for the pool table - waste of space as there's not enough cue room when it's busy.<br />Report this for removal<br />Matt - 12 Jan 2004 12:53<br />best barstaff in the world<br />Report this for removal<br />o"sullivan - 7 Jan 2004 20:38<br />The best pub in London.<br />Report this for removal<br />Odran Jennings - 24 Nov 2003 12:59<br />great pub this , just a welcoming atmosphere and a real fire if i remember, excellent, place to go on a saturday afternoon in winter,<br />Report this for removal<br />pat - 22 Oct 2003 15:18<br />my mate small hands and dangrous first dave first started drinking here when they were young,i dont mind a traditional old boozer with good old live irish music being played over the weekend,but the toilets are freezing in the winter.<br />Report this for removal<br />baz tav - 17 Oct 2003 12:47<br />My local. Friendly bar staff, nice quiet pub during the week and really busy on Friday/Saturday nights.<br /><br />And Bert the gaffer is a top bloke<br />Report this for removal<br />Jonesy - 1 Oct 2003 13:33<br />top place! first place i started drinking and still go back!!! landlord and family are great and good friends! place to go for a good lrish experience.<br />Report this for removal<br />S.H. - 19 Sep 2003 12:54<br />use to drink there all the time when I LIVED IN LONDON..GOOD CRAIC AND Bert the gov is sound<br />Report this for removal<br />Gerry - 31 Jul 2003 15:47<br />Good little pub this. Not particularly pretty, but does what it says on the tin. We often used to stagger over there after band practice in a nearby studio. Those were the days!<br />Report this for removal<br />G - 16 Jun 2003 16:27<br />Visited here last year; Thai food, real ale and a lovely atmosphere in a 'proper' Irish bar.<br /><br />Could it be possible that the Bucks Head (suggested by someone else with a blurry photo) could actually be this?<br />Report this for removal<br />mike - 10 May 2003 14:08dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-39456167443444910202009-01-10T00:27:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.502+00:00sad eyed lady of the lowlandssad eyed lady of the lowlands<br />lowlands <br />lowlands away <br />my love<br />so the be when was in the brent cross acid party space at <br /> joel’s parents place where badness was goodness <br /> allowed up to a point and then brent cross was the beyond the <br /> point new station where we would all arrive<br />and further unexpected points were crossed<br />such as the 30 year old guy with our 15 year old girl friend<br />but the main point was an irritating pseudo grown up daringness and <br />dabbling with adult mind bending drug-sex danger.<br />irritating cause I was rarely dabbling with the drugs and definitely not <br />getting any of the sex.<br />Oh no, I was living in good old boozy Glasgow, <br />being trained in the ways of booze and heavy metal. <br />Roman marching camps and cup and ring marks in Argyllshire<br />I went to gigs at the Barrowlands with girls who wanted me to get it up, <br />when I would only “oh sit down” to James.<br />So I got a dose of panic attacks, <br />some kind of acid mushroom come down from the previous years <br />mixed with major sessions drinking pints and pints of tartan special...<br />I learned how to drink, <br />I learned how to sing drinking songs<br />Back down south I realised how quiet and mellow everyone was in <br />comparison to up in Scotland. <br />I discovered that my crude jokes and songs and fast drinking methods were <br />an appreciated novelty after the years of faux-north London squat trendy heroin addict <br /> vacant middle class cliquey wankdom that my friends were unwittingly exposed to.dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-23437569492072367902009-01-08T00:20:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.503+00:00Avi Shlaim: How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe |<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jan/07/gaza-israel-palestine">Avi Shlaim: How Israel brought Gaza to the brink of humanitarian catastrophe |<br /> World news |<br /> The Guardian</a><br /><br /><span style="font-style:italic;">This is the best article I have read about the current situation in Gaza.</span><br /><br />Oxford professor of international relations Avi Shlaim served in the Israeli army and has never questioned the state's legitimacy. But its merciless assault on Gaza has led him to devastating conclusions<br /><br />The only way to make sense of Israel's senseless war in Gaza is through understanding the historical context. Establishing the state of Israel in May 1948 involved a monumental injustice to the Palestinians. British officials bitterly resented American partisanship on behalf of the infant state. On 2 June 1948, Sir John Troutbeck wrote to the foreign secretary, Ernest Bevin, that the Americans were responsible for the creation of a gangster state headed by "an utterly unscrupulous set of leaders". I used to think that this judgment was too harsh but Israel's vicious assault on the people of Gaza, and the Bush administration's complicity in this assault, have reopened the question.<br /><br />I write as someone who served loyally in the Israeli army in the mid-1960s and who has never questioned the legitimacy of the state of Israel within its pre-1967 borders. What I utterly reject is the Zionist colonial project beyond the Green Line. The Israeli occupation of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip in the aftermath of the June 1967 war had very little to do with security and everything to do with territorial expansionism. The aim was to establish Greater Israel through permanent political, economic and military control over the Palestinian territories. And the result has been one of the most prolonged and brutal military occupations of modern times.<br /><br />..........dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-23830256874805364572009-01-04T23:57:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.503+00:00"inhuman" assault on GazaJohn Ging, the head of the UN relief agency in Gaza, described the situation there as "inhuman".<br /><br />"We have a catastrophe unfolding in Gaza for the civilian population," he said. "The people of Gaza City and the north now have no water. That comes on top of having no electricity. They're trapped, they're traumatised, they're terrorised by this situation.<br /><br />"They're in their homes. They're not safe. They're being killed and injured in large numbers, and they have no end in sight. The inhumanity of this situation, the lack of action to bring this to an end, is bewildering to them."<br /><br />The UN has been particularly angered at the contention of the Israeli foreign minister, Tzipi Livni, that there is no humanitarian crisis in Gaza.<br /><br />Ging also accused Israel of a campaign of destroying public buildings vital to the administration and governance of Gaza.<br /><br />"The whole infrastructure of the future state of Palestine is being destroyed," he said. "Blowing up the parliament building. That's the parliament of Palestine. That's not a Hamas building. The president's compound is for the president of Palestine. Schools, mosques."dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-22780186417995218182009-01-04T00:26:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.504+00:00windows 7Windows 7 IS what Vista should have been. <br />It actually runs nice and fast - much better for exploring <br /> files and folders and viewing photos in the full screen slideshow. <br />I haven't yet tested the speed at which files can be copied from drive to <br /> drive (a major unforgiveable fault that vista had).<br /><br />This should be made available for free for us mugs that had <br /> the inadequate Vista foisted upon us when we bought new comps in 2008...dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-66859669440639193272008-12-30T09:11:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.504+00:00'I didn't see any of my girls, just a pile of bricks'<a href="http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/dec/30/israel-and-the-palestinians-middle-east">Israeli air strike kills five daughters from one family as Gaza death toll passes 300 |<br /> World news |<br /> The Guardian</a><br /><br />The family house was small: three rooms, a tiny kitchen and bathroom, built of poor-quality concrete bricks with a corrugated asbestos roof, in block four of Jabalia refugee camp in northern Gaza. There are hundreds of similar homes crammed into the overcrowded streets, filled with some of the poorest and most vulnerable families in the Gaza Strip.<br /><br />But it was this house, where Anwar and Samira Balousha lived with their nine children, that had the misfortune to be built next to what became late on Sunday night another target in Israel's devastating bombing campaign of Gaza.<br /><br />An Israeli bomb struck the refugee camp's Imad Aqil mosque around midnight, destroying the building and collapsing several shops and a pharmacy nearby. The force of the blast was so massive it also brought down the Balousha family's house, which yesterday lay in ruins. The seven eldest girls were asleep together on mattresses in one bedroom and they bore the brunt of the explosion. Five were killed where they lay: Tahrir, 17, Ikram 15, Samer, 13, Dina, eight and Jawahar, four.<br /><br />They were the latest in a growing number of civilian casualties in Israel's bombing campaign. At least 335 Palestinians have been killed and as many as 1,400 injured. On the Israeli side, four people have been killed by Palestinian rockets. Israel's military offensive continues and may yet intensify.<br /><br />Imam, 16, lay in the room with her sisters but by chance survived with only injuries to her legs. She was eventually pulled free and rushed to hospital. "I was asleep. I didn't hear anything of the explosion," she said yesterday as she sat comforting her mother. "I just woke when the bricks fell on me. I saw all my sisters around me and I couldn't move. No one could see me from above. The neighbours and ambulance men couldn't see us. They were walking on the bricks above us. I started to scream and told my sisters we would die. We all screamed: 'Baba, Mama. Come to help us.'"<br /><br />Her parents had been sleeping in the room next door with their two youngest children, Muhammad, one, and Bara'a, 12 days.<br /><br />Their room was damaged and all were hurt, but they survived and were taken straight to hospital even before any of the older girls were found.<br /><br />Imam eventually recognised her uncle's voice among the rescuers and she shouted again for help. "He found me and started to remove the bricks and the rubble from me," she said. "They started to pull me by my hands, the bricks were still lying on my legs."<br /><br />Her mother, Samira, 36, had seen the pile of bricks in the girls' bedroom and was stricken with grief, convinced they were all dead. Like all the family, she was asleep when the bomb struck. "I opened my eyes and saw bricks all over my body," she said. "My face was covered with the concrete blocks."<br /><br />She checked on her two youngest children and then looked in the room next door. "I didn't see any of my daughters, just a pile of bricks and parts of the roof. Everyone told me my daughters were alive, but I knew they were gone."<br /><br />She sat on a sofa surrounded by other women at a neighbour's house further along the street and struggled to speak, pausing for long moments and still overcome with shock.<br /><br />"I hope the Palestinian military wings retaliate and take revenge with operations inside Israel. I ask God to take revenge on them," she said.<br /><br />Her husband, Anwar, 40, sat in another house where a mourning tent had been set up. He was pale and still suffering from serious injuries to his head, his shoulder and his hands. But like many other patients in Gaza he had been made to leave an overcrowded hospital to make way for the dying. Yesterday his house was a pile of rubble: collapsed walls and the occasional piece of furniture exposed to the sky. He spoke bitterly of his daughters' deaths. "We are civilians. I don't belong to any faction, I don't support Fatah or Hamas, I'm just a Palestinian. They are punishing us all, civilians and militants. What is the guilt of the civilian?" Like many men in Gaza, Anwar has no job, and like all in the camp he relies on food handouts from the UN and other charity support to survive.<br /><br />"If the dead here were Israelis, you would see the whole world condemning and responding. But why is no one condemning this action? Aren't we human beings?" he said. "We are living in our land, we didn't take it from the Israelis. We are fighting for our rights. One day we will get them back."dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-29087685827386692502008-12-26T23:17:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.505+00:00alt facebook status update #1Matthew glugs a tax collector's fill of shame and belches a stinking burp of redemption.dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1216339974616279605.post-91988906135160970252008-12-14T22:57:00.000+00:002009-03-05T12:12:31.505+00:00Bush gets shoes thrown at him in Iraq<a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff145/bobservo/LJ/2uyod3k.gif"><img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 340px; height: 240px;" src="http://i242.photobucket.com/albums/ff145/bobservo/LJ/2uyod3k.gif" border="0" alt="" /></a>dwellerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03053677634169274927noreply@blogger.com0