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| This month, Mike's Very Sad Little World comes free with an introductory edition of Planet Morrison. Click on Bill Morrison (pictured) to access some genuine rants of the highest order. I'm Mike Hancox and I do not neccessarily endorse these messages. |
| No American President has yet worn a brown corduroy suit . Clearly the United States has a long way to go in terms of equal opportunities. |
| A new addition for this website: the Daily Drivel joins the Monthly Message. I have given in, and finally joined the blogging community, courtesy of www.blogger.com, and I have found myself already gently addicted to this generally harmless pastime. Mike's Very Sad Little Blog now joins the plankton of low-life scribes now infesting the web, and I am only sorry that I haven't come up with a better name for it: the random musings of a deranged chicken, or procrastination leads to..well..this, or maybe the art of waking up seem to grab me a bit more.. I suspect that the sad truth of the matter is that all but the merest handful of the tens of thousands of blogs out here are of no merit whastsoever, except as a safety valve for their creators, and I don't doubt that mine will remain very much in the bargain bucket for whatever portion of eternity I am permitted to experience. I did attempt a monthly blog, once before, in May, and did find that it did take over my thoughts and actions to an abnormal degree- I ended up doing things just for the sake of writing abou them. It's an odd kind of therapy. You should try it. Or you may indeed have a life.... Click on the arrow for the blog: |
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| If anyone has been reading my blog, it might have been noticed that at work we've all been a little bit frustrated by a new computer system that is threatening to become our new lord and master. Inspired (or indeed dispirited) by this, I have now sacked geocities.com as my website provider and re-activated the whole thing with a new windows package. Click on the arrow to access my website, using a state-of-the-art friendly customer-based interface system. |
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| If I can exclude a night of dubious comedy at the Plough Inn, E17, my cultural highlight of the month was a night at the English National Opera for Don Giovanni. This production had caused some controversy in the past, with its modern setting; the characters are portrayed as beer-swilling, cocaine-inhaling, condom-chucking louts who race up and down the stage like runners in the chav handicap stakes in Walthamstow High Street. Despite being borderline perplexed at times, I enjoyed it, despite the violence of its finale: Don Giovanni met his end in a scene resembling a beheading video from Iraq. Hell, what do I know..the Observer, in its review, calls it Desperate Don. |
| Democracy: the rites of getting it wrong. Do you remember the empty-stomached, hopeless, helpless and hapless feeling of despair you had when Chris Waddle's penalty went over the bar in 1990? I can't remember it being anywhere nearly as bad as the morning of November 3rd when we awoke to find that George W Bush had won his second term. If only 150, 000 Ohians had changed their minds, we would have had the curious spectacle of a sitting President endorsed by a majority of those voting, but on his way out of the White House. Do you know, wouldn't that have been great? Wouldn't the irony have been so wonderful that it could have been hewn into Mount Rushmore? I wanted this odious, appalling presidency to end so much, that I would have laughingly embraced the patent absurdities of the American electoral system and reccomended their adoption in the Ukraine. It would even make my vote for the Blair-led government in next year's election here seem bearable. How can we make this result appear endurable, except by downing six pints of strong lager and looking forward to the next Bush satire to roll off the presses? Stalin apparently believed in "socialism in one country" - that didn't work out, and you know what, I don't think "democracy" in one country can either. |
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