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Hearty congratulations to Rufous for his speaking role in "How To Start Your Own Country" last night. I am genuinely impressed that you managed to appear in a TV show which also featured Noam Chomsky, and your T-Shirt was very nice too.
I'm even more amazed that, despite being in Amsterdam, you managed to watch your own moment of glory - Dave was in Edinburgh last week and they weren't showing it there!
Keep this up and he might get you your own show, or at least a guest spot on The Mighty Boosh.
posted by Rob at 11:04 AM
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FAO rufous - It may be the world's best optical illusion but looking at the width of the floor slats, that blue owl you've got must be MASSIVE!
4:01 PM
Owl is merely 3 inches in height I'm afraid. The floor-slats are those of the seller - a canny marketing ruse as you say.
It has now arrived and I am set to begin testing its hypnotic eyes.
And not only did I appear in the same *show* as Chomsky, I *also* have one of the t-shirts that Danny handed him. :D (The japanese war-flag is mine own.)
I believe the show is broadcast AFTER Newsnight in Scotland. (Which is why I always get two waves of text messages.)
3:15 PM
FAO - Rufous. I was reading the transcript of the conversation between Chomsky and Wallace and after reading his collection on 9/11 is Chomsky very deadpan and dull when he speaks or is it just the way he writes? Also seeing as Girlfriend in a Coma is in your top five (six) works of fiction can you recommend anything similar, very readable and yet insightful. I've read a lot of Palahniuk and all of the boy Coupland's books but at the moment I am stuck with London Fields by Amis after big Stu recommended it and it's a bit long winded so any suggestions will help. When they compare Amis to Dickens is that meant to be a compliment or an insult? By the way respect is due on your blog.
4:52 PM
ikle-Ruf is the literary genus, but try Another Bullshit Night In Suck City by Nick Flynn. Has Coupland overtones, but is a biography. Think Rob's enjoying it at the moment.
As to the rest - never read Amis, and love Dickens' social commentary but find him difficult to plough through!
10:07 PM
Well Steven Pinker wrote: "Chomsky's writings are "classics" in Mark Twain's sense: something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read". And he LIKES his stuff!
I thought the Nick Flynn was great, definitely worth a go. What Palahnuik have you read, Jim?
12:53 PM
Fight Club which was better than the movie and Diary which was awesome, real good head trip. The other Palahnuik books I will probably get for Crimbo.
4:24 PM
Ah - those are the 2 I've read too! I gave Keef Choke for his birthday, so hopefully he can fill us in once he's read it!
8:39 AM
Michael also got me Yes Man by Wallace so got loads to read at the mo, soon as i've finished the new Harry Potter - which incidently is 400 pages of not much then 200 you can't put down.
Plus i've still not got round to Love and Poison, 18 months since i got it!
9:03 AM
Oooh, you've got to read that. It's not quite the ultimate rock 'n' roll biog that Brett claimed ("The Dirt" surely has to take that title), but it's dead good. And quite unsympathetic to Codling, as I recall.
*cough*SuedeisstillbetterthanDogManStar*cough*
1:18 PM
Hang on, are you on drugs? How the fuck is Suede better than Dog Man Star?!?!?!?!?!?!?!
They're still the best 2 suede albums but DMS is MILES better. Find an import copy with Stay Together on it and it's nearly perfect.
11:31 AM
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