Dreaded_Outsider's blog

REM happen to form part of the bedrock of my music existence. Yup, it goes that deep. I do realise that I am not unique in this seemingly cosmic, connection, that I share the band with millions but these are some of my musings first thing on a Friday.

Fave song: Well, Losing my religion kicks off almost of its own accord but I also have time for Imitation of life as well as the Great Beyond.

I recently got a titanium razor as a gift from Pop Mechanics. What a pleasure, it's impossible to cut oneself with this baby. Picked up some old Silver Surfer comics at a junk shop. Wow, the memories, nostalgia.

Add in a curry and my day don't look too bad.

Great movie, watched it the other night and it got me thinking about onelongminute and where all the usual suspects are. I haven't been very active of late but the place is kinda quiet. Bit eerie actually.

She's a chef and bloody good at it but quite opinioted. Quite unbecoming at times but you pays your money and you takes your choice.

Picked up a copy of this recently and have been glued to the pages. Great writing style with plenty scandal and backroom kitchen stories. I worked my time as a waiter and assistant manager and what he says about the kitchen crew being a gang of pirates is quite true.

In amongst neuropsychologists and psychiatrists and neurologists I have been getting some cooking done, curries obviously and succeeded with a mean bobotie. The other thing that has struck me of late is the amount of Joburg women that show off serious amounts of cleavage.

Spent time watching all the sport I could yesterday. Starting with All Blacks 9am and ending with Russia knocking out the much fancied Dutch team in Euro 2008.

Recently I raised the suggestion that the violence around so called xenophobia had created an ideal opportunity for some marketing by SABMiller. The multi national is so busy across the globe in a bid to take the top spot as the biggest beer seller worldwide that it has forgotten the foundation on which it built these global ambitions.

It’s a question that many have pondered but few have found exact answers. How can the jungle, that is this crackpot city oscillating between an adrenaline frenzy and force feeding a washed out hangover with painkillers and regmaakers, retain any semblance of a hold on any sane ex-citizen?

While surfing I discover a link to a story on the human brain. Click on link and start reading when all of a sudden this message occurs ...

Read more in the December 2007 issue of Popular Mechanics on sale on 19 November.

Yup, you've guessed it, somebody hasn't done their update rounds or else Popular Mechanics are planning to charge for online content.

My headaches have eased, with longer gaps in between each attack. Concentration levels have increased slightly but not like they were. Memory retention and recall can be flimsy at times but the doc reckons that time might bring that back.

"Assume for a moment that instead of a newly found human lover being at the other end of an Internet link with their own haptic interface, engaging with you in whatever sexual activities your respective hearts desire, ther is instead a robot, a sexual robot programmed with the knowledge of countless experienced lovers and all of the world's sex manuals.

Would you know the difference?"

SABMiller are currently engaged in a Texas hold 'em style battle for global beer market supremacy. It has made a great deal of the stake it is currently playing with from sales of quarts in township shebeens.

Those quarts are not the root of the recent violent attacks on mainly foreigners but they fueled the 'Dutch courage' desperately needed by the perpetrators.

My headaches started in Oct last year accompanied by dizziness, blurred vision and some memory loss. They returned intermittently but last week saw a disturbing increase in the memory loss. This week on attack on Monday night and one Tuesday than today two in one morning.

According to the media we are a nation of xenophobes. I resent that, and I question the lack of investigative journalism and any levels of credible scepticism amongst intellectuals in our country.

The word xenophobia is sufficient to sell newspapers these days, but are we really a nation of xenophobes?

"Scott McClellan, writes in his book that Bush relied on an aggressive "political propaganda campaign" instead of the truth to sell the Iraq war."

Lifestyle supplement in the Sunday Times forms quite a crucial part of my literary Sunday. Always thought provoking, not always well written or researched but always food for thought.

A review of a biography on V. S. Naipaul brought a grin to my face. It seems the man is not so much obnoxious, arrogant and self centered but more, way more than that.

My life for a while has revolved around books, writing and work. There has been little extracurricular activity and it seems that this is blatantly apparent to those around me.

My blog yesterday spawned an interesting debate about rape. Unfortunately false accusations occur in the criminal justice system and because there is a massive backlog, these cases do not get optimised that fast and if the falsely accused gets justice it takes years.

Have kept in touch via the fringes of intellectual groups debating Karl Marx, Lenin, Mao and other asorted lefty stuff luck Fidel Castro and the recent opening up of Cuba to the capitalist unethical West.

One thing that strikes me as absurd is the stance taken on Marx by rightwing supporters and critics as well as left wing supporters and critics that Karl bequeathed us a system.