What has transpired during this day then?

First up, if you haven’t already, send me your email address using this link HERE. All my email addresses disappeared in a computer cock up.

Well hey, where have I been? Can you tell me? In Ann Arbor basically is the answer.

Went for a huge walk the other day in Bird Hills which is a huge woodland park. The walk wasn’t supposed to be quite so long but there was an element of getting lost thrown in and some directions were needed from a grumpy cyclist who was loading his bike into his car. Apparently the concept of giving us a lift was a bit beyond him so we carried on our forced march for a good 3 hours before getting back to the car. It was all fun though and much laughing was done.

Here’s a nice thing about a dog food brand… This stuff is important!

Election fever is over and the news has gone back to it’s normal self. The thing you notice here (or I do anyway) is that news is only shown if it has a direct link to the US. Foreign news there is very little of (Fallujah and Israel/Palestine only) so I am even more addicted to the BBC news website than ever just to remind me that there is a “rest of the world” out there. That said, I did just read on the CNN news ticker that Leo Sayer is moving to the colony of Australia. Very odd. I wonder what he’s being transported for? Why the hell is that news?

I had a very bad nights sleep last night for some reason so feel most out of sorts today. You know those nights when you wake up very anxious for no apparent reason? And whatever you think about, your mind puts the worse possible spin on it? Had to get up and watch TV in the end to make it all go away. Doh! Watched the film Secretary which was good until the end when it all went a bit whack. In other TV news, there’s a good show I saw one episode of called Desperate Housewives, and another that I’m addicted to called Family Bonds on HBO. It’s ace and Alun and Ann-Marie, you’ll love it when it comes on if it’s not already playing in Britainland.

It’s very cold here now and I have invested in a nice black wooly hat and a pair of black leather gloves so I look just like a burglar. Once when I was drumming for a band I was coming back from a rehearsal dressed much the same way on a snowy night when I was stopped by 2 representatives of the local constabulary who were investigating some local house thievery. They asked me what I’d been up to and I told them I had been drumming. They asked me to open my bag and when confronted by the contents (some drumsticks and a towel) one of them said “Oh yeah? So what’s all this stuff for then son?” as though he had just collared an old lag in an episode of the Sweeney. Still tickles me.

Tried a couple of times to find a restaurant in Ann Arbor which serves a good vegetarian option with very little success. Supposed to be a bit of a hippy town so you’d expect better. Ended up going to Seva which actually is a vegetarian restaurant, which may make you wonder why I didn’t just go there in the first place… cos I’m pig headed, that’s why. Talking of which, did they have to make this stuff so anatomically accurate? And as for “Eats like chicken”, well, what language would that be then?

Pay attention… this is serious…

My email program got screwed (I blame the Republicans).

That means I’ve lost everyone’s email address which some of you may think is a good thing.

If you ever want to hear from me again, send me an email by clicking HERE so I can get your address back…

If you know anyone else who checks this please pass the message on to them.

Ta muchly.

John

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Oh Bugger

Well it looks like the Americans have managed to do it again… Ohio is looking like it’s going the way of the pear, Bush seems to have increased his share of the popular vote by 4 million so he actually has a majority this time. America is a conservative country. The majority of the people in America think that bombing brown people in other countries will make them safer. It’s not a huge majority, in fact it’s very slim, which is ironic given the amount of corn syrup sloshing around, but it’s a majority. Unfortunately the brown people with bombs raining around them don’t get a say. Apparently this election is likely to have been won for Bush on “values”. That means that along with their natural fear of swarthy people in Eastern countries throwing rocks of mass destruction, people have voted on the issues of gay marriage and stem cell research.

I jus’ don’ geddit.

Trading their talents

Oh for god sakes, why do I put myself through this crap? Didn’t I learn my lesson from Labour losing to Major? Wasn’t the overwhelming anticlimax of Blair getting in enough for me? At the moment they are calling it 193 to Bush, 188 to Kerry. I’ll watch it and still hope to god that the looney gang of industrialist, neo-con, born again hawks get run out of town. If not, I suggest we build a large wall around Europe and hide until they go away… might work… Also might help if everyone in the UK learns French and then pretends not to speak English at all next time anyone from the US tries to get in touch. Desperate times call for desperate measures. Non, Je suis desolee mais je ne parle l’Anglais pas. Au revoir Monsieur Americaine et vas te faire encule. You know that the Republicans in the US hate the French because they are a Republic too? That really annoys them.

Alvie can’t cope with the pressure and is asleep in the corner with his paws over his head… Look how worried he was on his walk today…


Sam Hayne Says

And he was like “Happy Halloween” and I was like, TOEDALLY psyched! So I was like “Duuuuude, that’s soooo not cool!”, and he was like “Whateverrrrr!” so I was like “It’s toedally Samhain maaan”, and he was like “Woah girl, what are you? some kinda witch-bitch?” and I was like “You godda respect my beliefs cos if you don’t respect my beliefs then you don’t respect me, and if you don’t respect me then screw you buddy.” and then he was like “I’m sorry babe, happy Shadowfest.” and I was like “awwwww baby I love you”…

Ahem… sorry… You believe that the whole town was out of pumpkins yesterday when I went to get one? I’m gonna carve a tomato in protest.

2 packs for $7 (or $3.50 each)

“Our world has sprouted a weird concept of security and a warped sense of morality. Weapons are sheltered like treasures and children are exposed to incineration” – Bertrand Russel.

Up early on a fall back day listening to Power, Corruption and Lies by New Order.

Out of cigarettes and toying with the idea of not buying more.

Wearing a bizarre sarong thing for laziness.

Dreamt last night that I was onstage with a band and didn’t recognise the intro to one of our songs, so didn’t know the words, so faked illness to cover it up and sent the cleaning lady on to recite other lyrics to keep the audience entertained.

And that was Sunday morning.

He said she said that…

Nice night last night with people over for dinner which I cooked and which tasted very good, aided by a couple of bottles of vin rouge to oil the wheels. Drinking is down to a rarity nowadays, how American I am becoming. Talking of which, they were really keen here on that Guardian thing of getting UK citizens to write letters to people in swing states telling the US populace how to vote, oh yes. Kind of obvious really but as they said on NPR “nobody wants to be identified as the candidate of choice for cheese, schnitzel and tapas eating surrender monkeys.” So now you know how the most liberal media here thinks of you lot. I hope you’re suitably chastened and will keep your nose out of America’s business in future. They promise to do the same for you… probably.

What else? Hmmmmm… It’s all election craziness here with each side hammering the other on their past record. Kerry’s going for the vote for Hope thang while Bushcheneyrumsfeldashcroft are just trying to scare the bejeezus out of the population… check out the terrorist wolves for a taste of paranoia… Alvie was so scared by his Al Qaeda relatives he peed on the floor.

Got to try to find something to do on election night now other than sitting in watching it on TV alone… maybe I’ll go to a bar with a TV and get drunk alone and watch it… suggestions welcome.