tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post8195650598008156706..comments2024-03-01T08:19:54.547+00:00Comments on BobFromBrockley: Wednesday miscellany (law and disorder)bobhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-47002228148198951652008-06-20T15:53:00.000+01:002008-06-20T15:53:00.000+01:00Graeme, your beer-serving record impresses me. I u...Graeme, your beer-serving record impresses me. I used to work in a pub, and served many pints, but NOT ONE SINGLE ONE to anyone famous. <BR/><BR/>My only comparison to Baggage Reclaim's record is that twice I've stood in the same queue for tea as Billy Bragg (once at a Mayday festival he played at - the historic 1997 - and once at very un-proley Kenwood House). <BR/><BR/>I've passed various famous people on the streets of London (my favourite, though not the most famous: Robert Wyatt at the Royal Festival Hall cafe; the guy that played Marcus Tandy in El Dorado in a pub in Kentish Town), but never stood next to anyone famous at a urinal.<BR/><BR/>By the way, it's a long time since I last listened to Voivod - what a band!bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-6703142984955754502008-06-20T15:18:00.000+01:002008-06-20T15:18:00.000+01:00Though in the comments, Sarahx has a list of peopl...Though in the comments, Sarahx has a list of people she's served beer to, and I arguably rival that. I've served beer to Queens of the Stone Age (okay, so they drank Coca-Cola, but that's not the point), Rufus Wainwright (tea drinker), and Elijah Wood (at least he drank beer). Not sure if that beats Lemmy, but it probably comes close.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375230713040998061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-8508044660408871642008-06-20T15:14:00.000+01:002008-06-20T15:14:00.000+01:00No, absolutely no chance of beating Baggage Reclai...No, absolutely no chance of beating Baggage Reclaim's list. The best I can muster is that I walked by Voivod's drummer on my way home from work yesterday.Graemehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15375230713040998061noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-57650793301581894932008-06-20T10:57:00.000+01:002008-06-20T10:57:00.000+01:00Thanks Jim - link now added! Ishmeal Reed: I've re...Thanks Jim - link now added! <BR/><BR/>Ishmeal Reed: I've read one or two of his novels, and enjoyed them. But I wouldn't want to endorse his politics; even less now.bobhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15439386754907203808noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-74536604197602512992008-06-18T22:29:00.000+01:002008-06-18T22:29:00.000+01:00No, you were not wrong. Ishmael Reed is a clown an...No, you were not wrong. Ishmael Reed is a clown and guilt-monger. I suspect him and Cockburn are probably homeboys...<BR/><BR/>Here is Reed in the Observer on Your Black Muslim Bakery:<BR/><BR/>"The Bakery spent three decades in the ghetto, raping, beating and brutalising poor black residents. And it was lauded and applauded for its social work. But the day after it killed a journalist, the hammer came down. 'As long as the underclass was being killed no one cared. But this really jolted all the upper levels of Oakland society,' says Ishmael Reed, an Oakland writer who has chronicled his city's turmoils."<BR/><BR/>Hogwash. The bakery was not lauded by anyone except militant black folks and their useful idiots and fellow travelers. Many white people brought up the criminality of the bakery, only to be denigrated as racists by people like Reed.<BR/><BR/>More wisdom from Reed in Counterpunch:<BR/><BR/>"Even Bob Herbert, a liberal and the token black on the New York Times' Neo Con editorial page, has to take the brothers and sisters to the woodshed from time to time in order to maintain credibility with his employers. He too says that Gangsta Rap is the cause of society's woes. (David Brooks, who promotes some of the same ideas as David Duke, but has a more opaque writing style, even blamed the riots in France on Gangsta Rap)."<BR/><BR/>Yes, the NYT is "neocon"! What an idiot. That the self-hating intellectual class heaps accolades on him is no surprise to me or anyone else who is paying attention. As a remedy to this lunacy check out John H. McWhorter, "Losing the Race: Self-Sabotage in Black America." Reed is one of the saboteurs: <BR/><BR/>http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/02/02/EB61844.DTL<BR/><BR/>Yes, it's an interesting interview but your post on Cockburn, Counterpunch, and crew was spot on.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-65391278202840727122008-06-18T20:16:00.000+01:002008-06-18T20:16:00.000+01:00Thanks for the link. The post developed out of a c...Thanks for the link. The post developed out of a conversation I had with my wife a few weeks prior to reading about the court decision in Seattle.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10131050.post-48582246222096022412008-06-18T17:33:00.000+01:002008-06-18T17:33:00.000+01:00Hi Bob, thanks for the mention.I feel terrible for...Hi Bob, thanks for the mention.<BR/><BR/>I feel terrible for mentioning this but you forgot the link to my post that you very kindly mentioned... <A HREF="http://jimjay.blogspot.com/2008/06/hands-off-people-of-iran.html" REL="nofollow">which lives here</A><BR/><BR/>Hope that's not being cheeky.Jim Jeppshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17410387006098326671noreply@blogger.com