Fagburn: Sisyphus Is Taking A Break

Fagburn: Still Ill

Me, chillin' with my homies.

Hallo,

Just a quick update in case anyone thought I'd given up blogging.

I'm having a lot of problems with my lungs and things still, and as my own boss, line manager, slave master etc, I've told myself to take some time off til I'm better.

See ya.

x

Thought For The Day: Douglas Coupland

A few months ago someone online (where else?) was discussing various religions including Scientology. In the comments section at the article’s end, a woman wrote, “I don’t like Scientology because it’s a made-up religion,” to which another reader replied, “As opposed to…?” He has a point. More recent religions entered the game late, and thus have yet to generate the market share that can only accrue with millennia. In 2,000 years, Game of Thrones could be a religion – who’s to say?

Douglas Coupland, FT Weekend.

The only columnist Fagburn wakes up and looks forward to reading, but... dunno, think she's coasting now.

PS Sisyphus gives up. Laters. x

Fagburn: On Re-Imagining Greek Myths And Considering Their Possible Application Towards The Revolution Of Everyday Life

So Diogenes met Sisyphus,
and Diogenes said; "Give up."

Fagburn: Apart From The Overwhelming Sense Of Absolute Futility And Despair Everything Is Brilliant

You can't say you weren’t warned. I told you the ‘diversity’ brigade wouldn’t rest at gay weddings.
For the past few years the equalities industry has been seeking out new frontiers with the determination of a Star Trek captain.
Having secured the rights of homosexuals to marry and adopt children, the equality warriors are escalating the battle on the transgender front...

Richard Littlejohn, the Daily Mail, on a false report about how we'll all be goose-marched to same-sex toilets by loony lefty councils.
Always reassuring to see a Mail columnist getting angry about a story they made up.

Television illusionist Derren Brown has denied reports that he will turn a gay man straight and make a straight man attracted to men for his latest stunt.
Brown, 41, was quoted in The Sun as saying: 'I was thinking about this the other day — it would be interesting wouldn’t it? To take a gay guy and make him straight and a straight guy and make him gay.
But he took to Twitter this evening to deny reports that he will use the concept as the basis of his next show.
He tweeted: 'Article in @thesunnewspaper saying that my next show is about changing sexuality: total rubbish.
'Thanks for that, being printed everywhere as fact.'

Daily Mail.

All bollocks, basically.
As per on here yesterday.
So a newspaper denies a story a journalist made-up.
This happens every day.
Twelve times.
Sometimes, I just despair.
How long can you complain about journalists who can neither write nor read?
And who can't even reprint a fucking press release without getting something wrong.
Or who are trapped in a vortex of their own paper's gobbledygook and balls?
How many times can you call out gay journalists who think their job is just to reprint lies from the straight press? 
Sometimes I feel like a boring old teacher marking thick kids' homework.
"No. No. Not true. No. Wrong. No. No. That's stupid..." 
WHAT IS POINT?
HELLO!!
IS ANYONE LISTENING???

Sisyphus: Theatre Of The Absurd

"The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labour..."
The Myth Of Sisyphus, Albert Camus.

"Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better."Samuel Beckett.

"If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style."
Quentin Crisp. 

"Kids, you tried your best, and you failed miserably. The lesson is, never try."
Homer Simpson.

"You mean it's all been meaningless?"
The Magnetic Fields. 

"Oh - what's the bloody point?"
Kenneth Williams.