Follow The Leader and Suspend Your Disbelief

Okay, I'm back. I know, I know -- I wasn't even gone long enough for anyone to notice... but gone I was, nonetheless. I was off brooding. No that's not quite right. I was wrestling with my newfound revelations about how badly the United Kingdom sucks. I was struggling to assimilate all the things that I hate about this country, and somehow reconcile them with the fact that I love being here so much. Significant developments from the Western side of the Atlantic during this process include the Supreme Court's decision to turn Brown v. the Board of Education on its head and the selfsame court's decision to reintroduce price fixing. Simultaneous developments on the Eastern side of the Atlantic include a minor incident at the Glasgow airport leading to further encroachment of the police state and a plethora of mindless patriotic quotes from our new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Sounds a lot like the things that I'd heard far too much of in the United States and all falls under the basic theme of: "They attack us because they hate us for our freedom... so we shall stop the attacks by taking that freedom away." At the end of the day, which it most certainly is, I stand by the conclusion that the political situation in the US sucks more than it does in the UK... but it still sucks over here much more than enough.

The real reason that I stopped posting for awhile is that anything I could possibly write about from my life sounded exceedingly trivial and superficial compared to the terrible things of real importance that are going on. That is still true... but unless I want to pack this journal up completely, I guess I am going to have to go back to writing about the superficial trivia that is my life. Here is a summary of things that have been happening:

( Games )

( Bells )

( Other )

Trivial? Yes, I know. But, for now, it's my life so I may as well chronicle it. Meanwhile, just for fun, ( here are a couple more pictures from Solstice at Stonehenge. )

And, if you have not yet seen it, go check out Riz MC's video for the Post 9/11 Blues. Just because.

Follow The Leader and Suspend Your Disbelief

Okay, I'm back. I know, I know -- I wasn't even gone long enough for anyone to notice... but gone I was, nonetheless. I was off brooding. No that's not quite right. I was wrestling with my newfound revelations about how badly the United Kingdom sucks. I was struggling to assimilate all the things that I hate about this country, and somehow reconcile them with the fact that I love being here so much. Significant developments from the Western side of the Atlantic during this process include the Supreme Court's decision to turn Brown v. the Board of Education on its head and the selfsame court's decision to reintroduce price fixing. Simultaneous developments on the Eastern side of the Atlantic include a minor incident at the Glasgow airport leading to further encroachment of the police state and a plethora of mindless patriotic quotes from our new Prime Minister, Gordon Brown. Sounds a lot like the things that I'd heard far too much of in the United States and all falls under the basic theme of: "They attack us because they hate us for our freedom... so we shall stop the attacks by taking that freedom away." At the end of the day, which it most certainly is, I stand by the conclusion that the political situation in the US sucks more than it does in the UK... but it still sucks over here much more than enough.

The real reason that I stopped posting for awhile is that anything I could possibly write about from my life sounded exceedingly trivial and superficial compared to the terrible things of real importance that are going on. That is still true... but unless I want to pack this journal up completely, I guess I am going to have to go back to writing about the superficial trivia that is my life. Here is a summary of things that have been happening:

( Games )

( Bells )

( Other )

Trivial? Yes, I know. But, for now, it's my life so I may as well chronicle it. Meanwhile, just for fun, ( here are a couple more pictures from Solstice at Stonehenge. )

And, if you have not yet seen it, go check out Riz MC's video for the Post 9/11 Blues. Just because.