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Good Morning
Sep. 22nd, 2016 08:00 am
YAY - good morning - free breakfast day today!
Sep. 22nd, 2016
YAY - good morning - free breakfast day today!
I have finished watching Season 11 of Supernatural and the verdict is summed up in one word - Awesome! The cliff hanger at the end with the lady from the British end of the Men Of Letters sounds intriguing.
Due soon though is the next season of Agents Of SHIELD. Here is a compilation of trailers for it.
Marvel's AGENTS OF SHIELD Season 4 Teaser Trailer, Sneak Peek & Promos Compilation (2016)
I look forward to this in anticipation.
Due soon though is the next season of Agents Of SHIELD. Here is a compilation of trailers for it.
Marvel's AGENTS OF SHIELD Season 4 Teaser Trailer, Sneak Peek & Promos Compilation (2016)
I look forward to this in anticipation.
Four To Ponder
Sep. 22nd, 2016 12:31 pmWhat book or books are you embarrassed to admit you’ve read?
What is the coolest bookshop you’ve ever been to?
Fiction or non-fiction or both? In what ratio? Where do you draw the line between the two?
What is your preferred bookshelf organisation scheme?
Ivy - Four in the Morning
What is the coolest bookshop you’ve ever been to?
Fiction or non-fiction or both? In what ratio? Where do you draw the line between the two?
What is your preferred bookshelf organisation scheme?
Ivy - Four in the Morning
Charming Days
Sep. 22nd, 2016 01:23 pmJust a selection of gifs i found for Charmed plus a newish photo of Holly.
Book 78 -Joan Didion "Salvador"
Sep. 22nd, 2016 08:37 pmJoan Didion "Salvador" (Vintage Reportage)
Salvador is Didion's account her 2-week trip to El Salvador in 1982, then a country in the early stages of a 12 year brutal civil war. Her opening report describes some of the carnage and the everyday terror Salvadorans experience. The opening report is a vividly disturbing picture of just how cruel we can be to one another. From there Didion describes her encounters with various powerful citizens and American embassy officials, who relate the corruption and the utter confusion that permeates this civil war from the top to the bottom. From these interviews it is fairly plan to see that the Salvadorans and those in charge have become desensitised to the violence and disappearances, and are largely apathetic to any reforms proposed by the government. Yet the terror is still very much with them without abatement. Reconciliation is clearly not on the table and the average citizen has no hope that this war is ending soon. Also, discussed to some extent is the ineffectiveness of the U.S. Foreign policy in the murkiness of the civil war. A war in which our allies are more content with the continuation of this war in order to consolidate power rather than fight over ideological outcome or for a greater purpose. In the wake of needless bloodshed on such a massive scale, all an ambassador can do is work towards small victories like trials before executions and doing everything possible to insure the safety of the citizens in their charge.
Salvador is not a factual history of the war in 1982. It is, however, the war seen through the eyes of a journalist with limited time and resources in country. Bias is inherit in this kind of journalism and time and events told second hand become as fluid as the eye witness accounts. Didion tries to elevate these problems by sprinkling quotes and statements taken from official and vetted sources related to story is she is conveying. It's a one-sided truth, but I have not doubt that it is the truth to Didion. So while it's not a scholarly account of the events taking place in El Salvador in 1982, it is an invaluable piece that gives voice to the experiences and horrific events that shaped the lives of Salvadorans for over a decade.
It's an interesting and fascinating quick read at only 108 pages.
Salvador is Didion's account her 2-week trip to El Salvador in 1982, then a country in the early stages of a 12 year brutal civil war. Her opening report describes some of the carnage and the everyday terror Salvadorans experience. The opening report is a vividly disturbing picture of just how cruel we can be to one another. From there Didion describes her encounters with various powerful citizens and American embassy officials, who relate the corruption and the utter confusion that permeates this civil war from the top to the bottom. From these interviews it is fairly plan to see that the Salvadorans and those in charge have become desensitised to the violence and disappearances, and are largely apathetic to any reforms proposed by the government. Yet the terror is still very much with them without abatement. Reconciliation is clearly not on the table and the average citizen has no hope that this war is ending soon. Also, discussed to some extent is the ineffectiveness of the U.S. Foreign policy in the murkiness of the civil war. A war in which our allies are more content with the continuation of this war in order to consolidate power rather than fight over ideological outcome or for a greater purpose. In the wake of needless bloodshed on such a massive scale, all an ambassador can do is work towards small victories like trials before executions and doing everything possible to insure the safety of the citizens in their charge.
Salvador is not a factual history of the war in 1982. It is, however, the war seen through the eyes of a journalist with limited time and resources in country. Bias is inherit in this kind of journalism and time and events told second hand become as fluid as the eye witness accounts. Didion tries to elevate these problems by sprinkling quotes and statements taken from official and vetted sources related to story is she is conveying. It's a one-sided truth, but I have not doubt that it is the truth to Didion. So while it's not a scholarly account of the events taking place in El Salvador in 1982, it is an invaluable piece that gives voice to the experiences and horrific events that shaped the lives of Salvadorans for over a decade.
It's an interesting and fascinating quick read at only 108 pages.
It has been another fine and lovely day here in the Bourne.
I have changed my mobile phone payment to a cheaper monthly ten pound contract as the O2 Bundle was proving to be expensive and wasteful on certain aspects , and not achieving the amount of texts or calls to justify the bundle. Keeping the same number of course.
In other news, whilst i was in town yesterday i had a tap on the shoulder from Fran. She wanted to know how i am and then we got talking about that piece of shit known as the cousin -she too has hot seen him or heard of him since he shacked up with Z. He has cut himself off from everybody including Kevin , whom he once called his best mate , and not even he has heard a peep. Fran and i both concurred that when his money runs out i doubt Z will have him around. Karma will get him!
I also heard that the Whitstable brewing company is opening their own pub in Faversham at the top end of Preston Street. Should be open in October and hopefully in time for my brother and Graeme when they come down on the 6th.
I received my second plastic five pound note today - pity that they don't have Elizabeth Fry on the back anymore. It is another boring pic of Churchill for damn sake!
I currently have four books on the go at the moment , including the letters that Simone de Beauvoir sent to John Paul Sartre. Reading them makes me realise how much we have lost the art of letter writing.
I have changed my mobile phone payment to a cheaper monthly ten pound contract as the O2 Bundle was proving to be expensive and wasteful on certain aspects , and not achieving the amount of texts or calls to justify the bundle. Keeping the same number of course.
In other news, whilst i was in town yesterday i had a tap on the shoulder from Fran. She wanted to know how i am and then we got talking about that piece of shit known as the cousin -she too has hot seen him or heard of him since he shacked up with Z. He has cut himself off from everybody including Kevin , whom he once called his best mate , and not even he has heard a peep. Fran and i both concurred that when his money runs out i doubt Z will have him around. Karma will get him!
I also heard that the Whitstable brewing company is opening their own pub in Faversham at the top end of Preston Street. Should be open in October and hopefully in time for my brother and Graeme when they come down on the 6th.
I received my second plastic five pound note today - pity that they don't have Elizabeth Fry on the back anymore. It is another boring pic of Churchill for damn sake!
I currently have four books on the go at the moment , including the letters that Simone de Beauvoir sent to John Paul Sartre. Reading them makes me realise how much we have lost the art of letter writing.
Riverside WiFi
Sep. 22nd, 2016 11:17 pmI never seem to get LJ working right at the damn WiFi in the hostel, as it always goes to a basic white screen but is okay if i not adding media or pics to the post as such is the case now.
Going to read now anyway.
Going to read now anyway.
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