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Wednesday, November 08, 2006
Friday, August 11, 2006
How radicalized are British Muslims?: "A recent opinion poll of British Muslims, which Timothy Garton Ash wrote about this morning, makes for sobering reading. Only 31 percent support free speech if it offends religious groups. Seventy-eight percent want those who published the cartoons of Muhammad to be punished. A mere 29 percent believe the Holocaust happened as history teaches it. Forty-five percent are convinced that 9/11 was an American/Israeli conspiracy—and that number rises to 51 percent among Muslims aged 18-24. Thirty percent would rather live under sharia rather than British law and 28 percent would like Britain to become an Islamic state. Eleven percent have firmly decided that British foreign policy justified the July 7th bombings, and 31 percent of young Muslims agree with this idea. Sadly, this is no rogue poll. Other surveys have come up with very similar results." Britain has a major problem here. It seems like there are a lot of Muslims within its borders that have not bought into the idea of a free society (of course there are a lot of Christians and Jews who haven't either). | Thursday, July 20, 2006
The World Cup convinced ESPN journalist Bill Simmons that he'd missed the boat on English football, and so he decided to do some homework and pick a team to follow for the next year. And by follow he means watch their games on Fox Soccer Channel, fly over to attend a couple of matches..the full Monty. He's now made a decision, and his article about it has to be the best piece of American writing on English football that I've ever read. Naturally I'm gutted at his ultimate choice -- and his poor reasons for eliminating West Ham from contention (maybe I should have written in?) -- but thrilled at the project as a whole. Respect. I can't wait for this season -- roll on August 19th! | Tuesday, June 27, 2006
I break my long blogging silence to post... cats that look like Hitler. Ah turmoil. What would life be without it? More when I resurface.... | Sunday, May 07, 2006
Sunday, April 30, 2006
So a fairytale season continues and West Ham are in the FA Cup Final for the first time in 26 years. I've been a supporter since 1982, and have never seen them in a Final, although I used to borrow my uncle's top-loading videotape of that famous 1980 Final and watch it over and over when I was a kid. When Marlon Harewood -- one of the players who has proved the doubters wrong this year -- stuck it in the back of the net, our lord and savior Alan Pardew was overpowered by funk. The evidence is below: | Wednesday, April 19, 2006
 R.I.P John Lyall -- West Ham's manager when I was growing up and by all accounts, a true gentleman. In the last 5 minutes I've read reminiscences of him graciously signing a get well card for a stranger on the street; allowing a 7 year old who'd travelled a long way to a game that was ultimately called off to take penalties at Upton Park instead; inviting a kid and his dad into the locker room to meet the players two hours before a match. That kind of stuff just doesn't happen any more. For me, he was just West Ham's manager, and therefore a kind of demi-god. | Saturday, April 15, 2006
 Hmmm -- I guess West Virginia needed the lebensraum.... Probably tough to find decent smoked salmon in the Dakotas as well. If you want a closer look, the above map is clickable. | Thursday, March 30, 2006
 Reminder Originally uploaded by mikkee1973. Heh heh. Did anyone catch his comment about not wearing a Speedo? Dearie me. I was trying to eat breakfast at the time. | Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Sunday, January 01, 2006
The obligatory top 10 for 2005. 1. M. Ward -- Transistor Radio 2. Paul McCartney -- Chaos and Creation in the Backyard 3. Fiona Apple -- Extraordinary Machine (Jon Brion version) 4. Spoon -- Gimme Fiction (only let down by a few songs near the end) 5-10 in no particular order Kanye West -- Late Registration Supergrass -- Road To Rouen Jenny Lewis -- Rabbit Fur Coat Richard Hawley -- Cole's Corner The Tears -- Here Comes The Tears Page France -- Hello Dear Wind Other strong 2005 records: New Pornogaphers -- Twin Cinema, Andrew Bird -- Mysterious Production of Eggs, Franz Ferdinand -- You Could have it So Much Better, Employment -- Kaiser Chiefs, Common -- Be, Josh Rouse -- Nashville, Tapes n' Tapes -- The Loon, Nic Armstrong and The Thieves -- The Greatest White Liar Other discoveries: Donovan, Orchestra Baobab, Senegalese/Nigerian music in general, M.I.A, Glenn Gould's 1955 Goldberg Variations, The Mighty Boosh, Robert Caro, Arctic Monkeys, The Clientele Not impressed: Sufjan Stevens, the officially released version of Extraordinary Machine, The Magic Numbers Some good records this year, but not much that I felt was great -- not much that got under my skin and lived with me. The exceptions were M. Ward (who can do no wrong -- best gig of the year too), half of the Paul McCartney album (I can't expect anyone else to share this, but having a clutch of truly great new songs written, played, and sung by Paul McCartney means a lot to me -- in fact if one were so inclined, one could say his music plugs directly into the mixing board of my emotions), and good chunks of the unreleased Fiona Apple album. | |
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