Today it is the one truly global drug; one that started with a curious, dancing goat and found its way through a thousand years of history into the cup next to me as I sit in the Oxford sunshine with a keyboard at my fingertips and a cat purring at my feet.
Religion
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Jan 08
Jan 08
We are the Kooks of America
Happy New Year! Trust you had a grand old time. I had the fortune to be whisked away to New Zealand for a fortnight of fun in the sun which was sheer bliss. Ahh… Has made it a wee bit tough to slide back into the chillier climes of Oxford, but there was a splash of blue sky on Wednesday which was lovely indeed. And, hey, spring is just around the corner, right? Right??
One of the quiver of my New Year resolutions was to throw a few more words up on FlatWhite in 2008, so perhaps you might begin to see some sort of regularity (gasp!) in the coming months. Thought I’d chip off the New Year with a few vids though. Words spoke by kooks that that have been simmering in my mind of late, care of the interweb.
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Oct 07
Oct 07
Of Witchcraft and Wizardry
Twenty-three years ago, for one hour a week in the six wintry weeks leading up to Christmas, I sat glued to a televisual feast of magic and mystery. ‘The Box of Delights’ was written by John Masefield in the 1930s and adapted for television by the BBC in 1984, when I was ten and living in the UK.
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Jul 07
Jul 07
What would Jesus do?
Now I know Jesus wasn’t all peachy – after all, he was the guy who promised eternal damnation to anyone who didn’t accept his teachings (and eternity is a really fucking long time) – but he was, generally, a pretty stand-up guy. Which is why whenever someone preaches prejudice, intolerance or hate at you all you gotta do is say, "C’mon man, what would Jesus do?"
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May 07
May 07
God Hates Fags
Jerry Falwell, founder of the rather unhelpful Moral Majority is dead. His legacy will live on through the twisted prejudice of spittling rednecks and the conservative wedge of the American middle-class whom he seeded and nourished during his years in prominence as a hate-monger.