Re: a comment on Brethren, oblivion is not the road to the city Ataraxis II by SupremeDreamer	5-Feb-07/1:43 AM
Everyone's saying 'Asshat' these days. Best word ever!
Re: Fuck Shelters, & fuck OutReach Court. by SupremeDreamer	5-Feb-07/1:35 AM
"just because my associate happens to be psychologically challenged with retarded glee, and 'cause my fashion sense is rather shabby..." ...is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Although you used 'glee' earlier in the piece, not that I'm complaining or anything.
Re: Flowers by Dovina	5-Feb-07/1:31 AM
The last stanza is good, I don't much care for 'given from the heart' though. Is the opening verse yours?
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	31-Jan-07/8:22 AM
Please remember this is poemeranker, therefore the correct spelling is 'Loomington'.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	31-Jan-07/8:20 AM
I know the Islamist mindset perfectly well; someone I was acquainted with is an Islam, and he beat up a nightclub bouncer for saying 'No Pakis in here mate'. If that's not irrational violence, I don't know what is.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	31-Jan-07/7:36 AM
Never a truer word spoken. Wiltshire is beautiful, except - or so I hear - for Warminster and Trowbridge. And it's not just Stonehenge which has the attraction. Some years ago my best friend's family decided to walk the Ridgeway; I joined them for the last six miles (ending just outside East Kennet) and it was wonderful. I am a Hampshire lad though - anyone living in such accommodation must live either on one of the military bases or in Popley.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	31-Jan-07/7:31 AM
Bram Stoker's Draculoom is another classic.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	31-Jan-07/6:10 AM
You are right, of course. Intellect and niceness rarely sit well together; a fact belied by my lopsided, foppish grin. I shall keep my mumblings contained within my sack next time. By the way, on Salisbury station the other day I saw a gentleman with a face like a slightly overweight triangle and brogues which had been buffed to the point of actually generating their own light (not by his own hands, they were spotless). He was waiting for the London train with the relaxed demeanour of one who knows that it doesn't matter when he arrives at the Gentleman's Club, because there will always be a fresh plate of sandwiches and a steaming Spotted Dick in the kitchens. Was he your dad?
Re: HIGHER by Radiation	31-Jan-07/4:54 AM
The poeme suggests a postmodern analysis of the metaphysical limits of contemporary binary logic; through the title we can see that the afterlife is indeed a higher plane of existence, but the dread Halls of Mandos can only be accessed through an infinite fall. The implication of such spiritual reverse gravity is at once fascinating and haunting; this hauntology is similar to a certain exploration of Marxist theory and, for all its wonder, is bow'ls.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	31-Jan-07/4:48 AM
It was, although I told my dad about it and he thought the idea of a world without children was heaven.
Re: a comment on Journey To The Centre Of The Loom by -=Dark_Angel=-, P.I.	31-Jan-07/4:46 AM
Ugh, a stop away from Camden; just about the most deplorable place in Hades.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/5:13 PM
Yes, but they're less likely to adhere to those clerics who preach against the literacy-promoting, disease-eliminating, smile-and-hand-shaking Americans than they are right now.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/5:05 PM
Offer them schools, hospitals and clean water in place of bombs and cholera, and I'll bet you anything that Allah suddenly takes a more relaxed view of life.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/4:54 PM
Do you really think that the average Muslim on the streets of Baghdad really cares that much about what's going on in America? It doesn't matter about one's religious leanings; once you make peoples' lives comfortable, the majority are not going to want to get off their backsides because another bunch of people are decadent. You might still get a zealot or two, but in a world of billions that is totally unavoidable. Besides, we used to say* that the Irish would never be reconciled, and look at the progress there. *okay, so *I* never actually said that, but the people who were alive and fighting then did.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/4:36 PM
Maybe not, but it might persuade people to stop signing up to the gang ethos. I mean, if you're a small Iraqi child and you see a bunch of Americans come into town and leave you with a nice shiny school, you're surely going to be less likely to grow up wanting to bomb the shit out of anything unbrown. Unite the population behind your cause, and the rebels are going to find themselves swiftly running out of people willing to strap dynamite to their faces.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/4:18 PM
Why even bother with sending them packages of aid (or even AIDS. Actually, spreading AIDS through the Middle East might liven things up a little)? They don't need freebie food, they need reliable sources of energy and water, and working hospitals and other social focal points. It doesn't take a genius to work this out, so why don't we seem to have even started actually trying to make life better for the natives? Image is nothing, which is good news for me because if I keep on coming out with this pimply logic I'm going to need some super-industrial facewash. Admittedly, it's not as though the English can talk about having effective hospitals.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/4:07 PM
I call it an almighty administrative cock-up. If we'd genuinely committed to repairing and building the infrastructure of resources and social amenities in the more secure regions of Iraq (Afghanistan is, I think, a different bottle of whiskey altogether), do you really think the world of Islams would direct so many of their woes against us?
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/3:57 PM
'The war' was won in weeks, if you assume that a war has to be fought between two definable forces. We took out Saddam's military pretty quickly. I think this is Dark Angel's point (in a very simplistic way of saying it). What we're fighting can't, I don't think, be called a war. At best it's a fight between one visible form of idiocy and multiple other forms.
Re: a comment on Alternatives by Dovina	30-Jan-07/3:49 PM
Did you ever read/see Children of Men?
Re: a voice poem by richa	30-Jan-07/12:33 PM
'The' happens far too much for me; excellent otherwise.