Wednesday, 17 December 2008
New Flight of the Conchords! Series 2 - watch now!
The first episode of series 2 of FOC is available now! Only to US users though. I absolutely do not suggest or condone using a US open proxy service such as can be found here. http://www.xroxy.com/proxy-country-US.htm
Tuesday, 9 December 2008
Saturday, 6 December 2008
Oh dear
ok, I really can't draw. to attempt to get better, I'm going to draw myself every day.
I will post occasional attempts to see if I'm getting any better. Here is no. 1 - I don't look like this really!
I've got the look of a Russian from a Big Train staring contest here!
I will post occasional attempts to see if I'm getting any better. Here is no. 1 - I don't look like this really!
I've got the look of a Russian from a Big Train staring contest here!
Sebastian Rogers
Check out Sebastian Rogers - met him and saw him perform at a house concert in Brighton last week & he's travelled the length and breadth of the US giving concerts in peoples living rooms. Interesting guy, great music.
Sunday, 30 November 2008
A first for me
I got called a Paki last night outside a bar in Hampshire. To give some context, I'm a middle-class white man from Norfolk.
I didn't really know how to react. Me and my mate George (also white) were just baffled to be honest, as we walked outside the bar for a smoke and the ignorant scum-boy started to quiz us - "not being funny mate, but does your uncle own a corner shop?". No, not being funny, thats the single part of your sentence that made any sense.
Racial inaccuracies aside, I would have genuinely liked to have known what reason he thought he had for instigating confrontation from a distance of 10 yards purely based on someones skin pigmentation. Unfortunately, I judged that this particular chap and his gang of giggling fuckwits weren't really up for some analysis of the issues at hand, or really a friendly chat.
I'm lucky, I don't really witness racism that often, and when I do it's usually in the form of ignorant old men in pubs who have never left Norfolk, and are scared by anything remotely unusual ("sponge pudding, on a Wednesday?! you're starting to make me uncomfortable Mary."). I've certainly never been on the receiving end of it, and I can tell you I didn't much enjoy it.
I really would have loved to be equipped enough physically (or have useful fighting super-powers) to have taken him on and tried to find out exactly how the crazy fuckers mind works. But I'm not, so we took the moral high ground and walked off, a bit confused as to what had just happened.
I didn't really know how to react. Me and my mate George (also white) were just baffled to be honest, as we walked outside the bar for a smoke and the ignorant scum-boy started to quiz us - "not being funny mate, but does your uncle own a corner shop?". No, not being funny, thats the single part of your sentence that made any sense.
Racial inaccuracies aside, I would have genuinely liked to have known what reason he thought he had for instigating confrontation from a distance of 10 yards purely based on someones skin pigmentation. Unfortunately, I judged that this particular chap and his gang of giggling fuckwits weren't really up for some analysis of the issues at hand, or really a friendly chat.
I'm lucky, I don't really witness racism that often, and when I do it's usually in the form of ignorant old men in pubs who have never left Norfolk, and are scared by anything remotely unusual ("sponge pudding, on a Wednesday?! you're starting to make me uncomfortable Mary."). I've certainly never been on the receiving end of it, and I can tell you I didn't much enjoy it.
I really would have loved to be equipped enough physically (or have useful fighting super-powers) to have taken him on and tried to find out exactly how the crazy fuckers mind works. But I'm not, so we took the moral high ground and walked off, a bit confused as to what had just happened.
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