For once, I've actually decided to vent my disgust at the world rather than just bottle it all up and wait to explode at some unsuspecting person when they cut in front of me in a queue. Today, I am mostly pissed off with the American secret service, and not because of Wikileaks (although I really do hope that case falls though and they release the poor guy). No, I am am pissed off with them because they have decided to start another Crusade.
It was apparently not enough for the US to self appoint itself as the police force of the whole freaking world. Now they seem to feel the need to hire convicts, pay them in excess of £100,000 and have them attempt to incite acts of violence from the Muslim community so they can then point the finger of blame and label them all terrorists. I actually cannot quite express enough just how disgusted I am with this course of action, nor how relieved I am that in this latest case it failed so abysmally. Not only did the insurgent fail to incite anyone to blow anything up, he freaked out his intended target so much that they actually filed for a restraining order on him, saying that they were worried he might be a terrorist and a bad influence on the community.
Once again, the 'War on Terror' has become a terrorist attack in itself, creating fear amongst those who are innocent. It is completely unacceptable that a government feels it can spy on and abuse it's citizens in this way just because they practice a certain belief system. It really makes me wonder, just what is America so terrified of Wikileaks exposing?
Tuesday 7 December 2010
Tuesday 16 November 2010
A proper blog for proper people (but not really)
So the last time I can really remember trying to write a blog was back when I was bored in university. Out of this great tedium random concepts began to form in my mind, great abstract solutions to many of the worlds problems flashed before my eyes... and then I decided to make a post along the lines of;
'I really want a battleship. Can you guess why? Because battleships have rail cannons and rail cannons are freaking cool!'
With these words of wisdom shared with the novice blogger's tool of choice at the time (livejournal) I resigned myself back to boredom and occasionally typing 'pew pew rail cannon'.
With my short blogging past behind me I feel this is sufficient a launching point for something new, for me that is, and just generally spout whatever is in my head about whatever I've seen on any particular day; exciting stuff right?
So kick everything off - found out yesterday that someone had once again beaten me to the punch of producing a Briton v Roman comedy series, lead by none other than Rory Mcgrath. Titled 'Chelmsford 123' it includes quite a large cast when compared with shows such as 'Blackadder' who run in a similar vein but it manages to refrain from being clumsy. After analysing each member of cast and their role, comparing their part to a character in my own script, I suddenly noticed that Mcgrath was looking rather young. A lot younger in fact than when I had seen him on 'Three Men in a Boat'. A quick IMDB search later and the answer becomes embarrassingly apparent; the show was first filmed in 1988, also known as three years after I was born. On the plus side I don't feel like I missed the boat on an opportunity any more and it is a very funny show.
'I really want a battleship. Can you guess why? Because battleships have rail cannons and rail cannons are freaking cool!'
With these words of wisdom shared with the novice blogger's tool of choice at the time (livejournal) I resigned myself back to boredom and occasionally typing 'pew pew rail cannon'.
With my short blogging past behind me I feel this is sufficient a launching point for something new, for me that is, and just generally spout whatever is in my head about whatever I've seen on any particular day; exciting stuff right?
So kick everything off - found out yesterday that someone had once again beaten me to the punch of producing a Briton v Roman comedy series, lead by none other than Rory Mcgrath. Titled 'Chelmsford 123' it includes quite a large cast when compared with shows such as 'Blackadder' who run in a similar vein but it manages to refrain from being clumsy. After analysing each member of cast and their role, comparing their part to a character in my own script, I suddenly noticed that Mcgrath was looking rather young. A lot younger in fact than when I had seen him on 'Three Men in a Boat'. A quick IMDB search later and the answer becomes embarrassingly apparent; the show was first filmed in 1988, also known as three years after I was born. On the plus side I don't feel like I missed the boat on an opportunity any more and it is a very funny show.
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