Spring Break and Blog Sweep

Unrelated Picture of the Week - The Albert Dock - Liverpool.

I have been lost in IP Address Purgatory again this week hence the light blogging - (I'm not a network engineer but I play one on TV). Wednesday saw me at a minor establishment of further education and while not quite Oxbridge I would have expected to be able to buy a Guardian in the shop. Turned out that the only paper considered in any way intellectual was The Daily Mail which the shop assistant offered me from under the counter. Belying the recent three-way split in politics all that could be offered in the way of news was the polarised duo of The Sun or The Mirror. What with the Guardian's recent coming out explicitly in favour of The Liberal Democrats, (bad luck Polly), things are becoming as interesting as they were in the old days. But students today - what a load of dispassionate whingers they are.

Anyway, to articled seen this week. First up is an interview with the Liberal Democrats' Youth Affairs Advisor - 61-year-old Brian Eno though this particular piece is more about his spot as curator of the Brighton Festival.

The next link seems slightly similar in outlook and is about manifestos from various rock and pop artists. Personally I would have thought that the best approach for a serious rock band would be to write music that says it all but it's fun to point and laugh at the over-serious musician isn't it?

For proper and varied content in literary endeavours we have Simon Armitage who has a new collection out - Seeing Stars which he talks about in this article from The Times but of course be quick because I'm not sure when they start charging. Having said that, Private Eye is rumbling about the Guardian having to charge any minute now due to falling sales of the print version. I will probably go for the Guardian Weekly print version if that happens.