In September 2008, the Big Four bank Lloyds bought HBOS, after its boss, Victor Blank – this is the part you couldn’t make up – bumped into Gordon Brown at a drinks party and got him to give an assurance that a takeover would not be referred to the monopolies commission.
Most of us have had a few drinks at a party and done something embarrassing, usually along the lines of I’ve-always-fancied-you-isn’t-it-time-we-did-something-about-it, but let’s take comfort in the following truth: none of us has ever done anything as embarrassing as buying HBOS.
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
The Banks
It's Finished
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Sloppy journalism
I Think You Forgot to Mention Tiananmen…
"So why did The Austrialian insist on peppering their story with a hearty dose of Tiananmen when it wasn’t necessary (the China Digital Times was able to report the same story without resorting to such misleading comparisons)? Well, Tiananmen attracts readers because it’s something they know, or think they know. It’s exciting, violent, and lets most Westerners bask in a glow of superiority, shaking their heads as they read and wondering when the Chinese people will “wake up” and overthrown the brutal CCP."
Friday, May 22, 2009
Rearrangement
The past two years have been good. Friends were made and regrets shared. Memories deconstructed and the truth of the moment recovered...
Much of how we think of ourselves depends on the mood that we are in, and what we choose to write depends a lot on who reads and who we wish would read what we write.
Recently I thought about how the blog needs to change, one thing that I wanted for sure is that some sort of maintenance. That particular thought didn't change much regardless of what and how I felt in the span of the past couple of months.
And so it has been done! the tags rearranged, the more egregiously bad grammar corrected. Posts that had lived beyond their purpose have been archived.
Much of how we think of ourselves depends on the mood that we are in, and what we choose to write depends a lot on who reads and who we wish would read what we write.
Recently I thought about how the blog needs to change, one thing that I wanted for sure is that some sort of maintenance. That particular thought didn't change much regardless of what and how I felt in the span of the past couple of months.
And so it has been done! the tags rearranged, the more egregiously bad grammar corrected. Posts that had lived beyond their purpose have been archived.
Monday, May 18, 2009
Monday, May 11, 2009
The Legacy of Kain
I just got around to reading Jenny Turner's humorous self-conscious reflection on Twilight. What happened all of a sudden to vampire protagonists who are bitter and selfish anti-heroes? In other words those who have style, and nothing like their ersatz contemporary brethren?
The archetypal vampire I had in mind is Kain in the first Blood Omen.
"And so I left, cold of heart and soul. Forced to the road and the long, bitter night."
http://www.nosgoth.net/Blood_Omen/dialogue/page1.htm
The archetypal vampire I had in mind is Kain in the first Blood Omen.
"And so I left, cold of heart and soul. Forced to the road and the long, bitter night."
http://www.nosgoth.net/Blood_Omen/dialogue/page1.htm
Friday, May 01, 2009
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)