What are you reading tonight?

[Prufrock]

Nope, worth a look?

[Gary the Enfield]

Nope, worth a look?

Definitely. Best part of the Evening Standard.

[Bruce Rioja]

Nope, worth a look?

Yeah, deffo. Reckon you'll like it.

[Worthy4England]

Memebase. S'been a long day. Now I'm smiling.

loser!

[2399]

Teasing and Abuse in Mid Sussex. Second in the trilogy by Ralph Steadman & Hunter S Thompson.

I'll get the Streetpress tommorow or so, to see if their is a Gig Review of what I went to.

[Harry Genshaw]

Just been reading the Bolton News forum and a thread re: that Bolton bloke who was shot dead in Culcheth

http://forum.theboltonnews.co.uk/viewtopic.php?t=7699" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Someone has posted on his girlfriend's facebook wall, "Gutted for you". Gutted for you? What kind of sympathy message is that? You're gutted for someone if they don't get a job they applied for, or a house sale has fallen through, or their child hasn't got into the school of their choice. You're not 'gutted' for someone when their life partner has been shot dead while out committing robbery. It's a bit more serious than that, surely? Nice to see that she had time to "like" the local nail salon in the midst of her grief, too.

[William the White]

I read this little, but profound, poem by Mourid Barghouti today, translated from Arabic by Radwa Ashour.

I loved it...

SILENCE

Silence said:
truth needs no eloquence.
After the death of the horseman,
the homeward-bound horse
says everything
without saying anything.

I really, really like this poet...

[Dujon]

Flood Water Rising

Water stated
To those who could hear
It's time to swim
To reach the shore
Of high ground
And put aside your grievance
For the sake of survival.
No one listened

[thebish]

as a side-issue to summat else I am studying as part of my study/reading week - I am reading some commentary on Franz Hinkelammert on Karl Marx's concept of "fetishism" - the "fetish" being the "spirit" of institutions - and a comparison with Jung's idea of the "collective unconscious"...

however - he has said "dialectic" too many times and interspersed it with "metanym" and now I need a cup of tea and a tunnock's teacake!

[TANGODANCER]

as a side-issue to summat else I am studying as part of my study/reading week - I am reading some commentary on Franz Hinkelammert on Karl Marx's concept of "fetishism" - the "fetish" being the "spirit" of institutions - and a comparison with Jung's idea of the "collective unconscious"...

however - he has said "dialectic" too many times and interspersed it with "metanym" and now I need a cup of tea and a tunnock's teacake!

After reading that I have a sudden urge to play ping-pong.

[William the White]

Today I started serious reading of Mourid Bhargouti's collection Midnight. I'm late in getting to know this poet but he is fantastic. This collection starts with the title poem. 'Midnight' is book length. 142 pages. Half that for most readers because it's published in Arabic on the right page and in English translation on the left. I'm about two thirds of the way in.

The poem is wonderful. Of love and loss, of people, and homeland. Of war. Of fear and hope. Of, above all, an assertion of the human spirit, however bleakly assaulted.

The soul retains its passion,
even on the cross,
the body has its dance,
even on the ropes.
The war enters into farce:
they bomb a butterfly,
It becomes even more farcical:
the butterfly has not died
but, with its fragility still intact,
has grown yet lovelier,
towering above the hubris of the general
and his science of war.

I feel so glad to have discovered this poet, so sorry it took me too long to do it.

[Worthy4England]

as a side-issue to summat else I am studying as part of my study/reading week - I am reading some commentary on Franz Hinkelammert on Karl Marx's concept of "fetishism" - the "fetish" being the "spirit" of institutions - and a comparison with Jung's idea of the "collective unconscious"...

however - he has said "dialectic" too many times and interspersed it with "metanym" and now I need a cup of tea and a tunnock's teacake!

That sounds a little fetishistic to me.

[thebish]

as a side-issue to summat else I am studying as part of my study/reading week - I am reading some commentary on Franz Hinkelammert on Karl Marx's concept of "fetishism" - the "fetish" being the "spirit" of institutions - and a comparison with Jung's idea of the "collective unconscious"...

however - he has said "dialectic" too many times and interspersed it with "metanym" and now I need a cup of tea and a tunnock's teacake!

That sounds a little fetishistic to me.

even more so as I had two... phwoooarr!!

[Armchair Wanderer]

Nothing quite so spicy here. Finished "Why England Lose", reccommended. Most of it may well be common sense / general knowledge but if that's the case someone has forgotten to tell the media. For me it backed up some opinions I already had, learned some new stuff and enjoyed all the statty talk. Some chapters are stronger than others and I wasn't really sure why a draw should be half a win for the purpose of their special percentage, surely these days it should be a third of a win? I enjoyed it anyway.

Read "Inverting the Pyramid" a while ago, also very interesting reading about how formations change. Any reccy's for footy books very welcome (as I have no other interests ).

[Harry Genshaw]

Any reccy's for footy books very welcome (as I have no other interests ).

I'd recommend 'Tor' the story of German football, A season in Verona (Tim Parks) or Paul McGraths autobiography as the best footy books I've read.

[bobo the clown]

"A Breath of Fresh Ayre" by Fred Ayre. Lower league player & Citeh fan ... his tales of pro football at the lower levels (I was going to say "eschelons" but NO idea how to speel it).

Magificent read.

Alos Garry Nelson "A Year in the Life of a Journeyman Footballer". The story of a guy who put in 650 games in at Charlton & a couple of others. He did another called (I think) "My Left Foot". Well worth looking out for.

[Harry Genshaw]

"A Breath of Fresh Ayre" by Fred Ayre. Lower league player & Citeh fan ... his tales of pro football at the lower levels (I was going to say "eschelons" but NO idea how to speel it).

Magificent read.

Alos Garry Nelson "A Year in the Life of a Journeyman Footballer". The story of a guy who put in 650 games in at Charlton & a couple of others. He did another called (I think) "My Left Foot". Well worth looking out for.

Aye, I'd forgotten about them two. I'd endorse Bobo's recommendation.

I also forgot - All played out by Pete Davies - following the English press around Italia 90. A real eye opener

[William the White]

Today was a wife-inspired tidy up day... From around the house I collected unread novels... On my side of the bed the bottom of the piles (three columns!) were so thick with dust I thought i might get lung disease handling them...

The Shelf of Shame in my office at home now numbers 53 unread (but freshly dusted) books, the oldest going back something like 17 years...

I've got to stop doing this... Or retire... To a desert with a single palm tree, a well, and a large bookcase...

[Armchair Wanderer]

Thanks for the suggestions Harry and Bobo, that'll keep me busy for a while

[Prufrock]

I can second Paul McGrath's. Even for one of 'them'.