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Love the fact that Geras' position now seems to be 'there's still an outside chance that I wasn't completely wrong about Iraq'...

Have people seen this piece? http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,1644298,00.html It's predominantly PBL (wot? No Lenin's Tomb) this was a telling para, on one of the idiots from Harry's Place "He says he's given up, but he'll be back, because blogs are like crack and you can't quite ever...

I started doing it but it takes fucking ages to sort out....

I dunno... Thankfully I have all the archives (courtesy of a particularly diligent friend)... It happened pretty soon after I switched to movable type....

A similar thing happened to my blogger site... check out what happens when you type in http://k-punk.blogspot.com now....

If 'Raspberry Beret' is avant garde, what isn't?

What was worse about my lateness was that I had made the cassette two weeks ago...it just got left in my bag, forgotten, awaitng a stamp...

I haven't got mine yet, but then again as I was late sending mine out, so I can hardly complain....

There's no reason why objecting to file-sharing is a province of the right wing. On the contary, there seems to be a very good left wing argument against it to do with exploitation of labour etc. The arguments for file sharing are typically either anarchistic/ Prodhonian (property is theft) and/...

I see what you mean but I can't imagine an ending that wouldn't be worse... One that completely and definitively established the nature of the reality of Nicholas' life would surely have dissipated all of the book's magic.... in a way, the ending was the equivalent of a fade out in a record...

Obv delighted to see Woebot return.... but the perception that there has been a downturn in blogs generally is a VERY local phenomenon..... globally they have carried on going from strength to strength...

Hear, hear. Jeez, are we still at the stage of having to distinguish being anti-Israel from being anti-semitic?

Me too... Sounds a bit like Houllbecq! The Magus is the only one I've read; I've only seen the film of The Collector (which is brilliant AND mentioned by Baudrillard in Seduction). But The Magus is a fabulous book... a precursor of The Prisoner and of David Fincher's The Game, amongst much...

re: Dogger's comments.... Yes, on the face of it, conservative and neo-conservative/Blairite thinkers seem to be full of positive rhetoric about 'freedom' etc., but the one of the key defining characteristics of this axis is its showy disavowal of anything deemed to be utopian. The appeal is...

So you are now retreating from your earlier claim that hip hop's boorishness etc is justifiable because it gets people out of the ghetto? I reiterate: it was a generalization. It was about an overwhelming trend. It was not about every single hip hop act ever. And it certainly wasn't about hip...

Who doesn't want to take race into account? I don't think it is acceptable to use race as an EXCUSE for lowering expectations in respect of black people, but that's really quite different. OK, 'mere art', the position is clear. OK, so are you saying it can't EVEN do that, or that it can do...

Also, I'm a bit mystfied by what people mean by 'dance music' on this thread?

Fair point, but, by the same token, the 'there's good music in every year' line is not usually used in the way that you - brilliantly - deploy it above. It's the a priori nature of the claim that perplexes me... the idea that there is this kind of natural and constantly maintained level of pop...

Erm, that your 'hey you can't say anything about hip hop coz it's black' point might require some nuancing... <i>The fact that a few, a very few, indeed a handful, of black males have managed to acquire capital through hip hop has done nothing to help the vast majority of the black population...