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CrowleyHead

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I got back into rap writing for Somanyshrimp.com and most of it's kind of OK. I have a feature that I'm working on that's taking a while because the interviewees are taking forever, but it's cool to join a website w/ that legacy and try to promote the acts that aren't garbage.

Also think I'm going to try to write a novel next year. God help me.
 
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Mr. Tea said:
I was thinking about this very story the other day but couldn't recall which of your many blogs it was on - excellent timing, for me, that you've put it up here. Really liked it. I think "plying' should be "applying" in the first para? Can PM you some more comments if you like.
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Well, thats a compliment. Yeah, please PM some comments. Yes, you're right on 'plying'.
 
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vimothy said:
God help us when the American foreign policy establishment finally turns its attention to regime change in Saudi Arabia.
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You heard about this brouhaha - or rather, complete lack of brouhaha - about SA's fit of pique over the entirely reasonable comments from Sweden's foreign minister? The West's collective hypocrisy with regard to this country is just utterly staggering. Another interesting factor is that it'll be news to a lot of people that lovely ole social-democratic-green Sweden is actually a fairly major arms exporter, with deals with SA alone worth $1.3B annually. At least, up till now.

Sorry, off topic a bit.
 
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baboon2004 said:
echoing Tea, I thought this story was great too. It's a really interesting/strong narrative voice (which for me, as a reader, is usually the most important aspect of writing)
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oh cheers man, thanks. I posted another called The Hills just now. Would be interested to hear thoughts on that.
 
craner

craner

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You were right, I did miss it. Thanks for that. I thought the final sentence a little ominous though. God help us when the American foreign policy establishment finally turns its attention to regime change in Saudi Arabia.
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Grazie. The last paragraph was clearly dashed off, as I felt the need to wrap the whole thing up before I started rambling endlessly.

As per your new style (are you being swayed by the Rand Paul school or FCO/State Arabists or Simon Jenkins?) your comments seem slightly gnomic.

No serious US "officials" or hangers-on have contemplated over-throwing the Saudis or ever will, bar some wild comments by Richard Perle and Michael Ledeen in 2002, who were as justified in what they said about the terror-sponsoring and totalitarian nature of the al-Saud as they were about the Iranian regime. The closest it came, and this was the most impressive moment in the entire history of the awful US-Saud relationship, was Condi Rice pushing Abdullah to reform, and specifically naming prominent, jailed Saudi dissidents in 2005 to rattle the absolute monarchy. She was only persauded at the last minute to pull those comments from her 2005 Cairo speech, and it was a shame she did. She didn't really want to. That was the chilliest moment before Obama. But note: the chill with Obama was not due to human rights, which his administrations have never raised, but because of his pathetic and doomed (and sinister by default) outreach to the Muslim Brotherhood and Iran.
 
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