In the gutter, looking at the stars

People often put something whimsical or informative in the description. I can't be bothered. It is what it is.

Sep 7

“

There’s an old joke: Two elderly women are at a Catskill mountain resort, and one of them says, ‘Boy, the food in this place is really terrible.’ The other one says, ‘Yeah, I know; and such small portions.’

Well, that’s essentially how I feel about life – full of loneliness and misery and suffering and unhappiness … and it’s all over much too quickly.

” Alvy Singer (Woody Allen), Annie Hall (1977)

Sep 6

How to boil rice

How did I get to be in sole charge of cooking rice in this household?

Oh, that’s right. It’s due to the incident I fondly refer to as “The time someone decided to boil rice for three in the smallest saucepan we have, and then wandered away from the kitchen for three quarters of an hour”.

I name no names.

Rod Liddle on bloggers

Rod Liddle on “Bloggsville”:[1]

… that vast network of talentless and embittered individuals tapping away at their keyboards in the intellectual vacuum of cyberspace, only occasionally leaving their computer screens to heat up a Tesco microwave-ready mini filled garlic and coriander nan bread with Indian dip selection (mango chutney, pickle, cucumber raita ©) before returning to spew out some more unsubstantiated bile.

This has caused a bit of a stir on the internet, with some accusations of pot/kettle. I’d say it’s more a case of careless framing; in its original context, Liddle is clearly going after Guido Fawkes, “the semi-literate, extreme-right-wing, public-school-educated, foreign-born former bankrupt and convicted criminal blogger”, and people of his ilk, but in doing so has effectively insulted the rest of the blogging community (or at least those of us with some interest in politics).

Me? I’m doing this ‘cause it provides a bit of distraction – for the fun of it. Call it a hobby. Most of the blogs and feeds I follow, on or off Tumblr, are run by people with apparently similar motivations, and most of them have a talent for whatever it is they do, whether offering commentary on current events, sharing unusual pictures or interesting links, or making the case that Aquaman isn’t lame.

I may well be talentless, but I’m hardly embittered.

Well, not much.

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