A few words on consumerism and the arts.

I am lacking in enthusiasm for anything at the moment. We live in dull times. I know the occasional firework display from our American cousins make it seem that these are exciting times but I beg to differ. There is very little to get excited about. Technology continues to reinvent the wheel whilst the media conspire to persuade us that we need this gadget and that thingamabob in order to remain at the cutting edge. (more…)

GUTRUMBLE IN FULL COLOUR

It is a great shame that I am lowering myself to even bother to write for this rag. Creature begged and sensing that there was a need for someone capable of lifting the standards from the turgid prose that I had the misfortune to have read aloud for me recently, I agreed. I do not own a computer. I occasionally browse through a random selection of websites in order to keep up to speed with the base obsessions of modern life. I use the laptop of an infrequent acquaintance, a very casual arrangement the details of which must remain undisclosed…

(more…)