The left will argue amongst themselves

That was the gist anyway, and it's true. I guess that makes the left feminine to the big butch right who always club together for their own collective greed.

Lots of talk on fb today about Russell Brand's interview with Paxman and the article in New Statesman. Sadly, predictably, the bulk of the discussion centered on Brand himself, even by those whose point was that Brand was entirely self-serving. He'd love the irony, the mischievous imp!

Here's the article:
http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/2013/10/russell-brand-on-revolution


Russell Brand walks into a bar shouting: quick, quick, there's a spaceship outside offering to take us for a once-in-a-lifetime trip across the galaxy.
The assembled elders looked up slowly from their real ale, eyes narrowing. The message sank in.
They roused themselves.
Then launched themselves - into a long and spirited argument about Brand and whether he was an appropriate person to make such an announcement. His motives were grievously doubted, his character was pored over at considerable length.
A dude pointed out that he had once met some aliens. He was pretty sure he had anyway.
Someone else chipped in on the same topic, recalling a film where a potato fondler travelled to space with peanut-eyed, grey-skinned dwarfs. Heads nodded like a landslide and several broke into song.
Who did he think he was, this bearded dandy, going way beyond his jurisdiction?
More drinks were ordered and thighs were slapped.
Brand waved but they ignored him. After a while he shrugged and left the bar and became the sole passenger on a trip to the Ring Nebula. Inevitably he began work on a script. Equally inevitably, he winked at the alien with the fewest extra heads and what he hoped were breasts.
The scene fades with Brand smiling at an imaginary camera.
Back in the bar, one of the assembled elders happens to peer through a window then upwards at the retreating lights.
"Guys...." he says.

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In other news. Lots of new review stuff arrived. Had a good afternoon with one of them. Wrote to US library company. Saw Camel (brill) and going to see Michael Nyman next week. Failed to get to Hawklords or Here & Now. This weekend astronomy thing, synth thing, something else I can't remember right now. :)

Have finished jicarc04, will release soon. Very busy right now, which is good for me I think. Everything comes in waves, I've noticed, periods of almost inactivity then bursts of lots of stuff to do. I will learn to enjoy this oscillation now I've identified it. Less guilt about the quiet times. :)