Friday, 3 August 2012

T.S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot




About an hour and a half in total but not quite seamless in its story telling or as riveting as the great man's poetry. However it's an excellent introduction and I regretted learning he was known as the Pope of Russell Square when he worked at number 24 for Faber & Faber publishing who hired him for his business nous he'd earned in the city. I used to live just round the corner from this address in Bloomsbury opposite an old Charles Dickens address on Doughty Street but this was before the internet and I was never one to research things in libraries or I'd have mined the whole Bloomsbury Set thing a lot more I'm guessing.

Chalmers Johnson - The Republic Has Crossed The Rubicon




The late Chalmers Johnson points out that Eisenhower's Military Industrial Complex speech was meant to be Military Industrial Congressional Complex but he was advised it would be too incendiary. I love the smell of broken republic in the morning. Then we can move on.

"I Ain't Got No Quarrel With Them Viet Cong... No Viet Cong Ever Called Me Nigger" -- Muhammad Ali




An extraordinary interview with the great man. Mid way he does some peculiar magic heating up some tin foil using just his chi energy. Remarkable. Bookmark this if you can't watch it immediately. It's that good.