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Orang Utan
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Death Of A Murderer - Rupert Thomson
Excellent novel about a copper whose marriage is falling apart and has a disabled young daughter who is charged with the task of guarding the corpse of Myra Hindley - cheery stuff
Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Another excellent book - about British pop music from the late 50s from a bloke who's been at the centre of it all for 40 years - lots of great scurrilous anecdotes but quite a well-written and clear eyed view of the business
Excellent novel about a copper whose marriage is falling apart and has a disabled young daughter who is charged with the task of guarding the corpse of Myra Hindley - cheery stuff
Black Vinyl, White Powder - Simon Napier-Bell
Another excellent book - about British pop music from the late 50s from a bloke who's been at the centre of it all for 40 years - lots of great scurrilous anecdotes but quite a well-written and clear eyed view of the business
Dirty Martini
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Orang Utan said:
Have you read the other one, You Don't Have To Say You Love Me? Fun read.
foo said:Regeneration - Pat Barker.
after accidentally reading the middle book of this trilogy recently, i'm now starting on this, the first one, which is a bit wierd but i'll get with it - because i know it'll be worth it.
she is a brilliant writer.
I saw the film with the bad dude from James Bond (Jonathan Price?) and found that very emotional, I basically sat there and wanted to shoot all the high command responsible for dragging those guys into a totally unecessary struggle. But have not read the books.
Am now reading the Chant of Jimmy Blacksmith by Thomas Keneally which looks into Aboriginal identity from the perspective of a hard working much maligned young man. Keneally's supposed to be a good writer so this should be interesting.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
"The Spirit of Place: Nine Neo-Romantic Artists and their Times" by Malcolm Yorke.
Dirty Martini
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Finished Behind The Curtain - Travels in Eastern European Football by Jonathan Wilson. A really fine book, fascinating always, especially the chapters on Yugoslavia, Romania and The Caucasus. Perhaps he could have brought it together at greater length at the end, but he has insight and style. Recommend it 
Jim Colyer
Jim Colyer
Just finished "State of Emergency" by Pat Buchanan.
Conservative Pat Buchanan takes on the tough issues of immigration, ethnicity, religion and race in a book subtitled "The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America." Buchanan sees western civilization as dying. It is not reproducing itself. Birth rates are down due to birth control and abortion. White population was 90% in 1960. It is now 67%. Hispanics make up 14.4% They outnumber blacks. As Mexicans pour into the southwest, whites are leaving California for places like Colorado. There are 12 million illegal aliens in the United States. Liberalism and multiculturalism are to blame. Buchanan faults President Bush for not enforcing immigration laws. He says the Republicans will not put a moratorium on immigration because they see Hispanics as a means of retaining power. Their lust for cheap labor is destroying America's European core as corporations erase borders and undermine nations. Materialism is their religion. Meanwhile, Anglo-Americans are in danger of becoming a minority. Is Buchanan an alarmist? He is steeped in American history. He revers Jackson and Polk. His views reflect the Eisenhower and Reagan eras. He hates globalism and sees unchecked diversity as weakening our culture. He foresees the end of the United States unless our borders are fixed. It is pointless to secure the borders of Korea and Kosovo while neglecting out own.
According to Buchanan, there is a reconquest of the American southwest taking place, that many Mexicans feel the land was stolen from them. It is an idea taught in their schools and promoted by the Mexican government. There have been reports of the Mexican military crossing the U.S. border. America's elite does nothing about it because they are paralyzed by guilt and a fear of being labelled "racist."
White supremacy was accepted before World War I. Everyone believed in the superiority of the white race. No one felt guilt about Indians or blacks. There was no talk of racism or imperialism. Buchanan writes, "In public life, the charge of "racism" has become modernity's equivalent of the charge of heresy during the Inquisition.
From 1492 to 1960, Europe conquered and colonized the world. Between 1914 and 1945, the European empires committed suicide in the two worst wars in history. The European mother countries are now being overrun by the descendants of the people they once ruled.
Moslems are overwhelming Europe as Mexicans are illegally entering the United States. Similarly, the Moslems are unwilling to give up their own culture.
Buchanan says the real conflict is between the elites and middle and lower classes, haves and have-nots of America. The elites are loyal only to money and trans-national corporations. They no longer care about country. They hire Hispanics and Asians and pay them less. The elites do not have to live with them. They are secluded in the rich part of town. Their kids go to private schools. Third world workers are thrust on the middle and lower classes. The workers do not care for American culture. They do not want to speak English. They wave flags of the countries they came from. This is in contrast to the immigrants who came to America during the Great Wave 1890-1920. They wanted to be Americans. It was possible to assimilate them. What is going on now is not Ellis Island.
Buchanan gives the west one last chance. Specific things must be done. There must be a moratorium on immigration, and we must decide whom we will let in after the melting pot is mended. We should accept only those who bring something to our country, preferrably English-speaking, educated Christians. We need to build a 2,000 mile fence along our sounthern border, end dual citizenship and birthright citizenship to children of illegals. We need to deport criminals. It is up to our leaders to act.
Conservative Pat Buchanan takes on the tough issues of immigration, ethnicity, religion and race in a book subtitled "The Third World Invasion and Conquest of America." Buchanan sees western civilization as dying. It is not reproducing itself. Birth rates are down due to birth control and abortion. White population was 90% in 1960. It is now 67%. Hispanics make up 14.4% They outnumber blacks. As Mexicans pour into the southwest, whites are leaving California for places like Colorado. There are 12 million illegal aliens in the United States. Liberalism and multiculturalism are to blame. Buchanan faults President Bush for not enforcing immigration laws. He says the Republicans will not put a moratorium on immigration because they see Hispanics as a means of retaining power. Their lust for cheap labor is destroying America's European core as corporations erase borders and undermine nations. Materialism is their religion. Meanwhile, Anglo-Americans are in danger of becoming a minority. Is Buchanan an alarmist? He is steeped in American history. He revers Jackson and Polk. His views reflect the Eisenhower and Reagan eras. He hates globalism and sees unchecked diversity as weakening our culture. He foresees the end of the United States unless our borders are fixed. It is pointless to secure the borders of Korea and Kosovo while neglecting out own.
According to Buchanan, there is a reconquest of the American southwest taking place, that many Mexicans feel the land was stolen from them. It is an idea taught in their schools and promoted by the Mexican government. There have been reports of the Mexican military crossing the U.S. border. America's elite does nothing about it because they are paralyzed by guilt and a fear of being labelled "racist."
White supremacy was accepted before World War I. Everyone believed in the superiority of the white race. No one felt guilt about Indians or blacks. There was no talk of racism or imperialism. Buchanan writes, "In public life, the charge of "racism" has become modernity's equivalent of the charge of heresy during the Inquisition.
From 1492 to 1960, Europe conquered and colonized the world. Between 1914 and 1945, the European empires committed suicide in the two worst wars in history. The European mother countries are now being overrun by the descendants of the people they once ruled.
Moslems are overwhelming Europe as Mexicans are illegally entering the United States. Similarly, the Moslems are unwilling to give up their own culture.
Buchanan says the real conflict is between the elites and middle and lower classes, haves and have-nots of America. The elites are loyal only to money and trans-national corporations. They no longer care about country. They hire Hispanics and Asians and pay them less. The elites do not have to live with them. They are secluded in the rich part of town. Their kids go to private schools. Third world workers are thrust on the middle and lower classes. The workers do not care for American culture. They do not want to speak English. They wave flags of the countries they came from. This is in contrast to the immigrants who came to America during the Great Wave 1890-1920. They wanted to be Americans. It was possible to assimilate them. What is going on now is not Ellis Island.
Buchanan gives the west one last chance. Specific things must be done. There must be a moratorium on immigration, and we must decide whom we will let in after the melting pot is mended. We should accept only those who bring something to our country, preferrably English-speaking, educated Christians. We need to build a 2,000 mile fence along our sounthern border, end dual citizenship and birthright citizenship to children of illegals. We need to deport criminals. It is up to our leaders to act.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Yeah, but he's a bigoted nutjob - are you a bigoted nutjob too?
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
If you fancy a laugh, look at Jim's website - there is some comedy gold on it. I think Jim's gonna be the main character in the next Christopher Guest film and this is some novel kind of viral pre-publicity. Look at the bio and the trip to England and Sweden especially.
Dirty Martini
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Jim Colyer said:
We ned edoocated cristians that can spel!
Fuk of, nobchops.
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
He's an ABBA stalker too:Dirty Martini said:
http://www.jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=3
And check this gem:
"I began with Trafalgar Square. Nelson's column juts into the air, surrounded by four crouching lions. It is red double-decker buses and black cabs, people and pidgeons. Big Ben could be seen in the distance. I avoided Britian's center of government.
Behind Trafalgar Square is the National Gallery. History unfolded: Titian, Tintoretto and Renoir. The French are painters.
I knew what to see in the British Museum, antiquities. Elgin marbles from the Greek Parthenon! These fragments are reproduced in Nashville. The Rosetta Stone is the chunk of basalt used by the Frenchman Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics.
I sought exhibits dealing with the Viking era, 750-1050.
I got to the Tower of London before it opened and walked around the perimeter. The best view was from the Tower Bridge over the Thames. I crossed the bridge. "Shakespeare stood by this river," I mused.
The Tower was built by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion of 1066. The Normans or Norsemen or Northmen were descended from Vikings.
I rode a double-decker bus to Piccadilly Circus. I sat on top."
We have a literary giant among us.
i HEART Jim Colyer.
i started reading Saturday by Ian McEwan before Xmas but it really is toss - some of the clumsiest writing I've come across in a while - so i got stuck into a big pile of Xmas books instead..
a photohistory of the Black Panthers
the Rough Trade label story by Rob Young
The Idler No 35 - the War On Work
London Noir, crime collection edited by Cathi Unsworth
London: City of Disappearances, edited by Ian Sinclair.
all marvellous, all better than Saturday
i started reading Saturday by Ian McEwan before Xmas but it really is toss - some of the clumsiest writing I've come across in a while - so i got stuck into a big pile of Xmas books instead..
a photohistory of the Black Panthers
the Rough Trade label story by Rob Young
The Idler No 35 - the War On Work
London Noir, crime collection edited by Cathi Unsworth
London: City of Disappearances, edited by Ian Sinclair.
all marvellous, all better than Saturday
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
My flatmate got that too - looks interestingDubversion said:
Orang Utan said:
Yeh, definitely a 'dipper' rather than a cover to cover, and I was intrigued to see Moorcock claiming Brixton was in SW18 (
) but there's some great stuff in there
Orang Utan
They cannot crucify you if your hand is in a fist
Good for the shitter thenDubversion said:Yeh, definitely a 'dipper' rather than a cover to cover, and I was intrigued to see Moorcock claiming Brixton was in SW18 (
I have just begun 'fabric of the cosmos', but want to leave it for awhile as I've just read 'the elegant universe'. dostoveysky's 'crime and punishment' has been recommended to death, but what I want to know is it well written.
I've got a special aversion to this novel without ever having read it.
I tried war and peace, and gave up on it. The novel seems as though its trying to hard to be a great story, without the necessary prose to back up its claim.
I've read 'anna karina' and would rather something that wasn't so meandering in narrative.
If anyone has read it, please lets me know if it was in keeping with your expectations (even, perhaps, surpassed them).
I've got a special aversion to this novel without ever having read it.
I tried war and peace, and gave up on it. The novel seems as though its trying to hard to be a great story, without the necessary prose to back up its claim.
I've read 'anna karina' and would rather something that wasn't so meandering in narrative.
If anyone has read it, please lets me know if it was in keeping with your expectations (even, perhaps, surpassed them).
Dirty Martini
gets what he cant want
Orang Utan said:He's an ABBA stalker too:
http://www.jimcolyer.com/papers/entry?id=3
And check this gem:
"I began with Trafalgar Square. Nelson's column juts into the air, surrounded by four crouching lions. It is red double-decker buses and black cabs, people and pidgeons. Big Ben could be seen in the distance. I avoided Britian's center of government.
Behind Trafalgar Square is the National Gallery. History unfolded: Titian, Tintoretto and Renoir. The French are painters.
I knew what to see in the British Museum, antiquities. Elgin marbles from the Greek Parthenon! These fragments are reproduced in Nashville. The Rosetta Stone is the chunk of basalt used by the Frenchman Champollion to decipher hieroglyphics.
I sought exhibits dealing with the Viking era, 750-1050.
I got to the Tower of London before it opened and walked around the perimeter. The best view was from the Tower Bridge over the Thames. I crossed the bridge. "Shakespeare stood by this river," I mused.
The Tower was built by William the Conqueror after the Norman invasion of 1066. The Normans or Norsemen or Northmen were descended from Vikings.
I rode a double-decker bus to Piccadilly Circus. I sat on top."
We have a literary giant among us.
That Abba entry is truly bizarre, like it was written by touristbot or something. Or like he's just about holding it together.
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I've mislaid the Gatiss book, so I'm reading Penguin Special -- The Life and Times of Allen Lane by Jeremy Lewis.
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