Sunday

Slept well, walked the dogs and came home to find that 'they' have erected a giant mast outside the CO-OP with a CCTV on it - huge black thing... they appear to have turned off the power to the COOP to do so - hence it being shut and in the dark - and my one-off whim to buy a Sunday Paper thwarted, probably a good thing - I've already read them all and they were a pretty depressing bunch. It seems most are polarise by two great injustices of the modern age, both betraying the less attractive qualities of out American Cousins,  the decade long destruction of Bradley Manning and the humiliation of National Sweet tart Cheryl Cole - although they hardly compare - Cheryl gets the most column inches. I'm actually amazed she got a work permit. The prospect of her trying to give advise to people with actual talent beggars belief. I hope she has a hissy fit and condemns herself to obscurity - either that or retires to North London, writes a concept album and tries to re-launch herself as a country and western singer in the men's clubs of Tyneside, either way I wish she's just fuck off.

The Manning case films me with utter dread and horror, I really can't bring myself to write about it but the Guardian and Observer are doing a pretty good job of unravelling a sordid and ugly tale of failure by the Americans to keep their own house in order on a grand scale - all this and the ugly prospect of Sarah Palin running for president...

There is an article in today's Independent about Sesame Street and other shows like MaGyver -right wing activist Ben Shapiro has written a book detecting a 'pinko' undercurrent in these shows by the evil leftist state of Hollywood, with such crimes as 'Magyver solving crimes by using his head rather than a gun' and Sesame street forcing a leftist adgenda by promoting racial harmony and conflict resolution... I seriously think I must be from another planet. There is another article about Naomi Campbell and her issues over an advert that uses the line 'move over Naomi, there's another Diva in town' to advertise a chocolate bar - apparently it's racist. It includes the classic line "the only recourse black people have is not to buy chocolate".

My plans for today include fixing the electrics ( if it brightens up - it's still very overcast ) and watching 2001 on DVD, all the way through in one sitting, which I have never actually done. I may clean up the office and do dull stuff that occupies my mind and makes me think I've achieved something.