Revolutionary Rants

I just edited this page competely:

James Dean Bradfield on Wikipedia

Isn’t it grand? Very informative, I think you’ll agree.

(P.S. C’MON ARSENAL!!!!!!!!!)

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You know what’s weird? Cooking blogs! I mean, we already have www.bbc.co.uk/food, not to mention Delia, online and – in my case – a load of Jamie Oliver books unused by my lovely partner since he no longer felt the need to woo me. Hence we do not need mad Americans (usually) blathering on about how great blood tongue sandwiches are… Do we?

As for me, tonight, I will grate some carrot, cut some lettice, chop a tomato, slice an onion (thinly), wish I had a baby avocardo and eat with a little mayo and a lot of soda bread.

See, what’s the fucking point of that?

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I have just had one of the busiest weekends of my life! On Thursday, after a pleasent lunch with Chicken in our favourite Huddersfield pub The Head of Steam, I boarded a train to Sheffield. Then (an hour and a half later, bloody slow train!) one connecting to Chesterfield. I crossed the town centre and bused to Mansfield, collected the house key, got a bit of shopping (i.e. red wine) from Sainsbury’s and went to the house.

I did a brief spate of packing things in to boxes and taking down pictures, before I settled with a glass of wine to watch some telly until my brother and sis-in-law arrived and we went for a curry in Kirkby.

After curry and a ‘tweek’ of whiskey the next day was spent on packing and visits to the dump. It, of course, decided to pour for much of the day.

After yet more red wine and ‘tweeks’ – and our final visit to the long loved John’s Chip sHop on the Nottingham Road – we began filling first the small (ish) CC Motors van (the same type which Chris and I were moved in last Spetember) and then the 7 tonnes TNT van! We worked from 7.30am to almost 14:00 filling (with plenty of tea breaks, of course, al la proper removals as my brother – a former member of this occupation – said!!!) and then we made the 4 hour + drive to a wet and windy Devonshire!

We unpacked the smaller van in the rain and then called it a night. Up early on Sunday to unload the 7 tonner, then a quick lunch before a long, long drive from Swimbridge to Sheffield. Once there I caught a slow train to Leeds and then from there back to Huddersfield…

Yes, a very long weekend indeed! And now back to the delights of essays and applications before our trip back to Devon for Easter next Monday!!!!!!!!!

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The horror of it. I am quite obsessed with Friends Reunited. A tad odd for someone who has never been to school or college. I am looking up all the people I knew at University. Some people just seem to stay the same, others sounds like they’re just plain lying, others still have gone exactly the way you would imagine!

Quite amusing.

I am working away on my essays, so that is taking up most of my time. Last night I watched The Chatterley Affair on BBC4. No, not just for the three minutes of David Tennent, either! I thought it was pretty well done (all though the jury based affair was a little far fetched, perhaps and could have been dispenced with in my opinion), the two ‘leads’ were the weakest link, but the court bits were excellent.

It also made me have a very happy thought – once I am no longer reading non-stop for my degree or my MA or whatever I can actually read novels again!!!

I never have finished The Rainbow…

[P.S. Word Press currently has no working spell check - Chris will work on it after his project is in, so sorry for my terrible spelling until then]

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It has just been one of those days. With a few (about three!) noticable exceptions everyone I have seen today has been an absolute  idiot or an arsehole…

The major case in point was when Chris and I were walking down Huddersfield main street. We passed by the Yorkshire Bank, which, as usual, had a sizable queue waiting to use the cash machine in the wall. An annoyed looking old man was enquiring of a young woman ‘where are you from then?’, to which she answered – in a broad Yorkshire accent – ‘the same place as you – here!’. Just as we had passed we heard the grumpy old specimin of ignorance cry out ‘no you’re not! You’re a child of a foreign national!’

It made my blood boil, it reminded me that for everything I love about Yorkshire, and Huddersfield, there is another thing that is full of sh*t…

Yes, just one of those days.

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I still haven’t made it in to the Brit Blog top blogs section. How disappointing. Even more disappointing when you take the time to look at some of the blogs that are in there… Never mind.

I have spent all of today reading about Holocaust denial. I am looking forward to our final two seminars this Thursday: one is on Marcuse, the other on today’s reading material. It will be interesting to see how people react to the whole holocaust denail thing, as, up til now, we have mostly plumped for complete freedom to say things, even if those things are down right sh*t. Will it be so this week?

The cause of free speech is not helped by David Irving, so I am hoping we will be looking more at Chomsky’s arguements than the reactionary, dubious tripe Irving comes out with. Should make for an interesting discussion, anyway.

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I am just watching Look North (the Yorkshire local BBC News), on which today’s lunchtime headline is about Keighley’s Mayor Rose Thompson being removed from office as she has made the move from being an independant candidate to joining the BNP.

Now, I know I argue in favour of freedom of speech for the likes of the BNP, but this rather takes the biscuit! They are making a big play for ‘power’ in Kirklees (where we live), and the ‘crossing of the floor’ in nearby Keighley seems to stink of a publicity stunt as local elections loom in May.

Thankfully, Thomson has had her Mayorship taken from her as many people would find what she was representing as a BNP ‘offensive’ and because it has been offered that she should stand for re-election as a BNP candidate (see if she wins then…). Even so, the whole thing seems to suggest that the BNP – which has recently seen its already small support dwindle – is trying to take ‘power’ (and publicity) by the back door. Especially when in a case like this they can sit back a whinge about how their democratic rights have been infringed.

Hideous.

Lets hope they will not get any seats in Kirklees.

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I am still walking around with a big smile on my face after Wednesday’s glorious and amazing game against Real Madrid (OK, so I am a die-hard Gunner, but even so it was one of the best games I have ever seen).

Another thing that made me smile was whilst Sandra and I were watching – having oft been subject to the male antipathy towards female footie fans: “So, tell us what the offside rule is then, if you don’t just watch to look at the ‘nice footballer’s legs’… C’mon!” – we over heard a group of young blokes. They spent no less than 15 minutes discussing what the away goals rule was!!! Even at the end of the long discussion, they still had it wrong, too!

It is always nice to have stereotypes reversed – and get to the Champions’ League quarter-finals!!!!!!!!!

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It is that time of year again (yes, they do go quicker when you’re a “grown up”, don’t they?): Oscar time.

We woke up bright and early (Chicken has a 9:15 start on a Monday) to be – like the rest of the world – at Crash gaining Best Picture and pleased that Philip Seymore Hoffman was at last getting the praise (and leading roles) he deserved! After all, anyone who can out act William H. Macy (in Magnolia) defintly needs more lead roles!

I am waiting in a state of extreme nervousness for my essay marks (the first two essays). However, I have just heard they won’t be back until at least late this afternoon, maybe tomorrow. They haven’t been returned yet. Just goes to show sometimes the “good” universities can be very bad at some things!!!

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Once again I am amazed by the Huddersfield University Student’s Union. There ‘new’ website contains a forum, on which Chicken posted some comments about the ‘news’ paper and the general “running” of the Union. These comments, which were not very complimentary, we DELETED by the website.

This comes up there with the time the Sabatical officer and several members of full time staff told me I should not have voted in a certain way in a meeting!

Such representation, such respect for free speech in the political arena.

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