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28 Jun 2018, 2:48pm
Mack the Life - Lee Mack. I like this mainstream British comedian's quick wit, though his BBC sitcom is unwatchable. Nice easy read, uncomplicated with a few laughs along the way. Seems like a nice fella.
I find him very funny on WILTY but agree that sitcom is unbearable.

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28 Jun 2018, 2:50pm
Silent Majority wrote:
28 Jun 2018, 2:48pm
Mack the Life - Lee Mack. I like this mainstream British comedian's quick wit, though his BBC sitcom is unwatchable. Nice easy read, uncomplicated with a few laughs along the way. Seems like a nice fella.
I find him very funny on WILTY but agree that sitcom is unbearable.
He's good live, too, in a Frank Carson kind of way.
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Female panellist on WILTY going on about stalactites for some forgotten reason, and says, mimicking pulling her stockings up, that how you always distinguish between stalactites and stalagmites is that the "tites" always go up. Lee Mack on the other side: "Not when I'm around baby!" Still a place for that old style humour i reckon.

His delivery just looks all wrong in the sitcom, jokes come across as too scripted and just fall flat. He cant act anyway so probably all moot. Plenty of people I know really like it, so go figure!

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New audiobook, started yesterday:
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The humour is a lot more subdued in this collection, partly, I think, because of Sedaris' advancing age and the suicide of one of his sisters, which gets touched upon in several pieces.
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New tub book:
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Bought and read this a couple decades ago and decided to revisit. No recollection of what I thought of it at the time, but I probably loved it based on subject matter alone.

Finished that Swans oral history. Meh. My takeaway is that Gira is basically an American Mark E. Smith. Plenty of people will attest to him being a genius, unwilling to compromise his artistic vision, and his band is fundamentally him and whoever else is along for the ride, but as part of that he can be monstrous to the people, going thru players at a remarkable rate, and yet those who have come and gone still respect the hell out of him and would/have gone back. Way too much stuff about the semi-mystical quest in performance and the artistic purity of physical discomfort and all that. I suspect worshipful Swans fans will eat this up as confirmation of the correctness of their idolization, but I found this a book to skim in way too many places.
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not reading it but I thought this was neat

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Bottom right's my fav.
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I am trying to develop some literary hygiene so to speak. My ability to read has been completely fucked by school and the iPhone. So I am trying to get a regimen of reading going where I will read only 1 nonfiction book and 1 fiction at a time, with a set number of pages to read daily. In addition I do whatever reading for language study as needed.
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William Henry Harrison - Gail Collins. The Presidential biography train is starting to pick up a little speed again. This is an okay book that I was continually amused with myself for reading. 160 pages of life on a frontier, undistinguished battles, and then winning the Presidency in the first hyped up campaign for the office. John Quincy Adams' thoughts on William Henry are probably the most entertaining part of the book. Harrison comes off as a vague, amiable guy who would have been indistinguished if he had lived more than 31 days and did more than be besieged by office seekers. I give it three murdered Native Americans out of five.
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
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A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
That's actually coming up on my audiobook queue (next, I think, if I give up on the new Palahniuk novel, which I'm very tempted to do). See, you pinko, I have the freedom to choose what I'm going to listen to next. You wouldn't get that in your Labour terror state.
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 6:30am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 5:21am
A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
That's actually coming up on my audiobook queue (next, I think, if I give up on the new Palahniuk novel, which I'm very tempted to do). See, you pinko, I have the freedom to choose what I'm going to listen to next. You wouldn't get that in your Labour terror state.
Why one crippled with the tyranny of choice should subject themselves to Palahniuk is an encapsulation of the perversion that allowing any outside the Party to handle their own leisure leads to.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 6:30am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 5:21am
A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
That's actually coming up on my audiobook queue (next, I think, if I give up on the new Palahniuk novel, which I'm very tempted to do). See, you pinko, I have the freedom to choose what I'm going to listen to next. You wouldn't get that in your Labour terror state.
Why one crippled with the tyranny of choice should subject themselves to Palahniuk is an encapsulation of the perversion that allowing any outside the Party to handle their own leisure leads to.
At least I don't have to ask some commissar when I can take a piss and then file a report about its quality to the Central Committee. Freedom is pissing without permission!
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Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:35am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 6:30am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 5:21am
A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
That's actually coming up on my audiobook queue (next, I think, if I give up on the new Palahniuk novel, which I'm very tempted to do). See, you pinko, I have the freedom to choose what I'm going to listen to next. You wouldn't get that in your Labour terror state.
Why one crippled with the tyranny of choice should subject themselves to Palahniuk is an encapsulation of the perversion that allowing any outside the Party to handle their own leisure leads to.
At least I don't have to ask some commissar when I can take a piss and then file a report about its quality to the Central Committee. Freedom is pissing without permission!
You can piss when you please, comrade, but it had better be in your pants as you work on the Gigantic Novelty Hammer & Sickle production line when you do. The work is necessary.
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Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:38am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:35am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 8:08am
Dr. Medulla wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 6:30am
Silent Majority wrote:
05 Jul 2018, 5:21am
A Brief History of Neoliberalism - David Harvey. Audiobook. Written in 2005, this book resounds with prophecies about an oncoming crisis in caplitalism within in the next two years and the coming break-up of a neoliberal world order. What piffle that turned out to be, eh? Starting with Pinochet's coup in Chile via some very self interested academics into Thatcher & Reagan's offices and into international consensus, we chart the contradictory idea and practise that the state exists to throw money up to the wealthy and leave everybody else to be looked after by a benevolent market.
That's actually coming up on my audiobook queue (next, I think, if I give up on the new Palahniuk novel, which I'm very tempted to do). See, you pinko, I have the freedom to choose what I'm going to listen to next. You wouldn't get that in your Labour terror state.
Why one crippled with the tyranny of choice should subject themselves to Palahniuk is an encapsulation of the perversion that allowing any outside the Party to handle their own leisure leads to.
At least I don't have to ask some commissar when I can take a piss and then file a report about its quality to the Central Committee. Freedom is pissing without permission!
You can piss when you please, comrade, but it had better be in your pants as you work on the Gigantic Novelty Hammer & Sickle production line when you do. The work is necessary.
Maybe you should come outside and talk to me and my buddies, Smith and Wesson. Pretty sure they can tell you what's necessary.
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