Velvetine Bunny Crop

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Alex "Loosen Up" Woolven Speaks!!!

My mate Alex, he thinks lying is great. Also, his fridge is well stocked with frozen people. Ok, chilled people.

We'll we had a pretty good chat about if its ever ok to lie, and what counts as a good person. I gave the hardcore, Roman's 3:23 answer: No-one. But also allowed for the more colloquial answer, people who conform to societies general standard of morality. What's the answer; is one enough before man and for one's sense of "I'm an ok guy", the other before God?

I wouldv'e said the last bit to Alex but he probably wouldn't have heard me over the sound of human bones crunching in his gob.

The Custom of the Sea

Do you know what the custom of the sea is?

Times up facists! It's the rule whereby, if you're stranded and are starving you can kill and eat one person to feed the rest. Saw it on some program about cannibalism. If you're stuck more than 5 miles from a Maccy D's and someone starts talking about the custom of the sea, get outta there!

Saw another show called Banged Up Abroad. It pretty much does what it says on the tin, about people getting locked up in foreign jails. A few weeks ago I watched one about this American chap that got caught smuggling cocaine and locked up in South America I think. His sentence was for 7 or 8 years I think, but he did two in this nasty prison and after he got extradited outta there they let him go, considered his sentence done cos the time he'd done was so bad! This week it was about an Aussie locked up in Indonesia for something he didn't do! It was proper amazing. He was just so matter of fact, typical Aussie. Got stabbed, tried to escape and got beaten by guards all sorts. But every photo of him during that time he's got a smile on his face or giving a thumbs up! Crazy man. What a guy, what a story.

One time he was running across the roof of an asylum (he'd convinced the authorities he was crazy at first), ready to just over the walls to a waiting motorbike, the roof gives way and he falls back into the asylum. "It just so happens that I fell into the place where they keep all the homicidal maniacs, who they generally keep chained to the wall...they were trying to bite me, rip out my hair..." Al' watched it with me, she was glued to it. Good show man. She can vouch, its true man!

Awesome. If I move to Australia will I be able to hack stuff as tough as that? It had effected him, but he told it like he was talking about going to the shops or a football game or something. "You'll never guess what. I fell into the room full of murderers. Bummer eh?"

Don't commit crimes, especially abroad.

For Michael

Manifold Town Muffins

The famous 'Michael and the Bear' shot.

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What a way to finish a book: Oh, by the way, everything I've said up til now: nonsense. Thanks Ludwig!

So,

"The world is all that is the case"
"What is the case - a fact - is the existence of states of affairs"
"We picture facts to ourselves"
"A logical picture of facts is a thought"
"What can be shown, cannot be said"

Does that sound like someone trying to say something, describe something; or like an attempt to show us how meaningless certain talk is? I suspect most of you will incline to the latter. I don't.

If you can't be bothered to write or read for an essay, blog about it. Perhaps on the basis of muscle memory alone you'll be fooled into thinking you're working.

I'm afraid I don't have interesting medical experiments to tell about, or goats. All I got it philosophy. Well excuse me!!! And now that it looks like metaphysics is, at best, a shakey project I can't even go on about invisible, higher- dimensional super-beings that give shape and meaning to our everyday reality!

Life can be so unfair.

Ze Vurm Turnz

The internet on my laptop is working again! Wehey! Been ages man. My bro's girlfriend helped me and I finished the job. Sweet. So this post comes from the comfort of my room.

Also got my amps fixed after being broke for ages. Its like all my gadgets come at once. Is good to play them again, especially playing with Stu. I haven't really played much electric for a while and its really good to get into it again, you can do more with it than an acoustic.

And for my final rediscovery, I got ol' LW (Ludwig Wittgenstein for the neanderthals out there) down of the shelf and am gonna try and read his Philosophical Investigations through. To my shame I've never actually done that, though I often bang on about it being my most formative read ever. Still, its not like I've not read any....

Surprising. I said to my mate Alex that we should be accountable, "have you read your Investigations today?" "Yes, Alex, meaning is use, meaning is use". I don't think he's gonna do it. Anyone else wanna buddy up? Well I'm gonna get a head start now I think...anyone know what "Uberhaupt hat der Fortschritt das an sich, das er viel groser ausschaur, als er wirklich ist." means?

Michael? Anybody?!

How Am I To Use a Colon? If You Don't Know I Can't Tell You

Transformers, robots in disguise. Transformers: robots in disguise. 'Transformers', robots in disguise?

Who knows.

There's been alot of 'agro' at work recently. Not with the staff s much, customers and youths. I've had to shout at young people quite a bit. And two grown women were arguing in the queue so I had to tell them to stop twice, while young'uns were egging them on from the doorway. Today a man started having a go at a pensioner and her twentysomething maybe grandson. To be fair I was having a conversation with the grandson after I'd finished doin their stuff but he was really quite rude. Then he went back for seconds! Out of order man.

In other news, I started reading Pope's translation of the Iliad. Wasn't sure about it at first, mostly cos of the idea of Homer in rhyming couplets. But I confess I had no experience to back that up, and that now that I've started it I'm actually really liking it, respecting the achievement. I can't wait to see what he does with the battle scenes. Two things though, I really like the epiphets in Homer - man-slaying Hector, so and so tamer of horses, the wine-dark sea etc. - and I'm not sure how much Pope retains these and thats a shame. And he Romanises the names of the gods, which maybe brings out a bit of snobbery in me and is a sign of a different time, but its still less faithful to Homer (and I think he even calls Odysseus Ulysses, what would he call the Odyssey? Did he translate it? The Wiki knows). But, as I'm sure has been said before, it's an achievement of English literature in some strange and yet faithful-to-the-original way. Odd eh? Anyhoo, I'm really enjoying it. Michael warns me though that I may start taking in rhyming couplets.

Resisting the urge to finish with rhyming joke...! Save me Optimus Prime!

That's not a prayer.

Philology: the love of chunks of wood

I propose spelling 'tickle' tiggle and 'skeleton' skelington from now on. Pronouncing the K sound in tiggle ;-) is wierd.

I finished my Greek course the other day, did the exam. Relief man. Just hope I passed. Congrats to Joe on passing his MA. Good stuff. Put it on your CV with your BA and all will be a-ok.

Ay?

Ok.