My keyboard's a disgrace
You wouldn't think a netbook the size
of a hardback book could attract and retain so much debris. On the
bright side, if I was ever starving and had it handy, there'd be no
need to try and order some food online, there's enough in the thing
to feed an army. For weeks. Granted, much of it would be well past
the sell-by date, and little uncontaminated by dog fur and other
accumulations, but there's plenty of nutritional value for the
undiscerning with a robust dietary tract.
Greece
The bubbles are boracic. They've gone
to the polls and voted showing their disdain for this austerity
approach beloved by the Germans, and anyone on a fair screw and not
adversely affected. This has displeased the pro-austerity alliance
and they're getting heavy with Greece, a brilliant country and one
that could once have mobilised the Spartans. So back off and cut
people a bit of slack here. Not everyone is insulated enough from the
short-term cuts and belt-tightening to really care about your
long-term goals.
Glasshouse dwelling stone-throwers
A lot of sour grapes today, City
accused of buying the league title. Many of those doing the accusing
were United fans (their team's success and domination based on the
purchasing power derived from aggressively marketing the club as a
brand before others even got to thinking that way, mortgaged to the
hilt); Chelsea fans (success bankrolled by Russian oil money, a squad
with a £50m striker with fewer league goals this season than our
centre-half, a club that has paid enough compensation to sacked
managers in the last few years to re-float Greece, Spain and rescue
Italy); Liverpool fans (they spent £100m or so last year, and for
what, finishing below Everton); S***s fans (Harry's continued his
career-long aerosol spending, with his usual unpredictable results,
just with a bigger cheque-book); and I'm sorry to say, Arsenal fans,
who should know better. If I supported a bank I'd be pleased as punch
about our sound financial circumstances and prudent management. I
don't. I support a club that's in a long drought in terms of success,
but that won't invest enough to succeed. Too much emphasis on the
long-term financial security makes for an empty trophy cabinet and
empty seats at the ground and in the changing room. Changing room
seats that were once occupied by our best players.
Good things this evening
- William Orbit: Strange Cargo III (listening now)
- Sausage and mash with onion gravy (comforting)
- Strange and beautiful light in the late evening, and a rainbow
- Irvine Welsh, more of Skagboys to read (yet to come)
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