Is it just me, or is Christmas coming earlier this year than usual. Maybe it's the onset of the Credit Crunch that has caused it - retailers desperate to ge the most out of their peak time.
But the adverts seem to be earlier and more obnoxious than ever.
Monday, November 24, 2008
Friday, November 21, 2008
Holiday
Well, today marks the second day of a two-week holiday. The more perceptive among you won't probably have to work out where I am, it's not much of a surprise!
Yes, I am in America visiting Chrissi again! The weather is lovely and warm, the sun is shining and I've had a lovely lie-in. Overall, all is good!
Yes, I am in America visiting Chrissi again! The weather is lovely and warm, the sun is shining and I've had a lovely lie-in. Overall, all is good!
Saturday, November 15, 2008
Positivity
So an odd subject to post on, but I will do so anyway. Positivity.
This is despite the fact that I'm usually a rather upbeat, realistic-through-to-positive person, I seem to have gained a reputation for being a cynical, pessimistic, negative person.
Which isn't really true. I'm usually fairly positive. The main reason this happens - particularly at work - is because I get really pissed off at inequality, injustice and so forth. Ignoring things that are completely out of order just isn't in my nature, so by pointing them out and saying as much, I'm a negative person.
Or so I hear!
This is despite the fact that I'm usually a rather upbeat, realistic-through-to-positive person, I seem to have gained a reputation for being a cynical, pessimistic, negative person.
Which isn't really true. I'm usually fairly positive. The main reason this happens - particularly at work - is because I get really pissed off at inequality, injustice and so forth. Ignoring things that are completely out of order just isn't in my nature, so by pointing them out and saying as much, I'm a negative person.
Or so I hear!
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Hopes and Fears
So, after all that, it's Obama. Election night reflected an interesting mix in my view.
On the one side, you have the incredible story of progress. It is just fourty years since the year when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, when John Carlos and Tommy Smith made their famous stand on the podium. Yet today we have a black president-elect of America.
On the other side, you have the tale of fear, of the continuation of exclusion and division, as Proposition 8 passed in California to sign into law the banning of gay marriages in the most liberal state of America. You can't help but wonder if this will be the story for the next fourty years.
On the one side, you have the incredible story of progress. It is just fourty years since the year when Martin Luther King Jr. was assassinated, when John Carlos and Tommy Smith made their famous stand on the podium. Yet today we have a black president-elect of America.
On the other side, you have the tale of fear, of the continuation of exclusion and division, as Proposition 8 passed in California to sign into law the banning of gay marriages in the most liberal state of America. You can't help but wonder if this will be the story for the next fourty years.
Tuesday, November 04, 2008
Decision Time
So after eight years of President George W. Bush, we'll today find out who his successor in the Oval Office will be. Two years of campaigning, a never-ending news cycle dominated by the US election that has gripped the globe in fevered interest.
All the talk for months of change, mavericks, hockey moms, pitbulls with lipstick, moose hunting, terrorist fist jabs (a personal favourite), Joe the Plumber who wasn't called Joe, and wasn't a plumber either, the economic crisis, more change, no talk of George Bush at all, change, pro-Americans, Alaskan independence, Troopergate, and it all comes down to this: millions of Americans casting their vote where they best see fit.
All we know is that when Europeans wake up in the morning it'll be with President-elect Obama or President-elect McCain ready to inherit the keys to the White House in January as the 44th President of the United States of America.
All the talk for months of change, mavericks, hockey moms, pitbulls with lipstick, moose hunting, terrorist fist jabs (a personal favourite), Joe the Plumber who wasn't called Joe, and wasn't a plumber either, the economic crisis, more change, no talk of George Bush at all, change, pro-Americans, Alaskan independence, Troopergate, and it all comes down to this: millions of Americans casting their vote where they best see fit.
All we know is that when Europeans wake up in the morning it'll be with President-elect Obama or President-elect McCain ready to inherit the keys to the White House in January as the 44th President of the United States of America.
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