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Thursday, February 18, 2010 by Melonhead99 A DAY IN THE LIFE OF GEORGE GALLOWAY V/O: It’s 9am. We find GEORGE in his office with the Respect Party campaign
AHMED: But George, you always say that. GEORGE: WELL, YOU CAN’T COME UP WITH ANYTHING BETTER! .. That’s it Ahmed, AHMED: good (walks out slamming door) GEORGE: I don’t know why they allow these people in the country…. Right, IMRAN We could try to find out what the ordinary voters think, Mr Galloway? GEORGE Good idea, we can find out why they hate Tony Blair and love me, V/O: It’s 10:30am. George is on the street, meeting the people GEORGE Imran, bunch of kids over there, get the camera, great photo op IMRAN yes, Mr Galloway. GEORGE: Hi kids, give me five! Don’t leave me hanging, dudes. KID: Wanker. GEORGE: A SPELL IN THE ARMY WOULD DO YOU SOME GOOD!... Imran, phone the V/O: 10:45am. GEORGE: Imran, lets try this shop, it’s the hub of the community. We IMRAN: George, maybe not this shop… GEORGE: Why not? IMRAN: Well… GEORGE: Let me finish, I’m going to have my say! IMRAN: Erm, okay. What?’ GEORGE: What? IMRAN: Nothing… GEORGE: You need to learn to listen more and stop asking stupid questions. A doorbell rings as GEORGE and IMRAN enter the shop. SHOPKEEPER: Hello sir. Can I help you? GEORGE: No, my friend, it is I that can help you and your people. I’m S/KEEPER: Are you that scouser man that says: “Calm down, Calm Down?” GEORGE: No, I’m your Respect MP. S/KEEPER: Oh. How can I help you? GEORGE: I understand your pain, and the suffering of your brothers in Iraq, S/KEEPER: I voted Conservative. GEORGE: Peace and respect to you, but the Conservatives are war and hate S/KEEPER: Please leave my shop, not only am I Indian, I’m also a Hindu. Get GEORGE and IMRAN are leaving the shop. GEORGE: THEY COME HERE AND FIVE MINUTES LATER, THEY THINK THEY BLOODY OWN THE PLACE! V/O: 12.30pm. IMRAN: We should get something to eat and drink. Rest our feet. GEORGE: Okay. Five minutes. For we cannot rest while the people of Iraq IMRAN: Well, there’s a sandwich shop over the road. We can get something GEORGE: Does it use Fair Trade products? IMRAN: I don’t know George. (Sighs) GEORGE: THAT’S MR GALLOWAY TO YOU! IMRAN: Sorry. GEORGE: Let’s find somewhere suitable to my position to eat. I’ll find us V/O: 1.45pm. IMRAN: We have an appointment with a women’s support group in 15 minutes. GEORGE: Okay, Okay! I’m just gonna finish this puzzle. Gotta go round this IMRAN: they said we’ll have to buy another Happy Meal if we want any more. GEORGE: US IMPIRIALIST PIGS!, FREE IRAQ! ok let’s go IMRAN: Don’t forget your free Happy Meal toy, Mr Galloway. GEORGE: Ah, yes. V/O: 2.15pm. GEORGE and IMRAN arrive at the Winnie Mandela Women’s Refuge GEORGE: Hello. I’m your guest of honour. WOMAN: Sorry? GEORGE: I’m George Galloway, your guest of honour. WOMAN: Oh, I’m sorry Mr Galloway. We’ve had to cancel your speech. The GEORGE: I’m only 15 minutes late! And that was my boy Imran’s fault. He WOMAN: Well, I am sorry. Maybe you could do five minutes at the end? Round GEORGE: Five minutes! My good woman, I’ve written a 20-minute speech with WOMAN: But Mr Galloway. We only wanted you to do a 10-minute opening speech GEORGE: I’m a busy man! I’ve spoken before the world’s most powerful WOMAN: Mr Galloway. I don’t like your tone. Could you please leave? GEORGE: Don’t worry, I’m going! And lady, IF I LOOKED LIKE YOU I’D WEAR V/O 8:15pm HOUSE OF COMMONS GEORGE: IMRAN! WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU? IMRAN (panting) sorry sir, what is it? GEORGE: did you find out if the Prime Minister is here or Brown? IMRAN: no, I don’t think they are here. GEORGE : HA HA!, cowards, they flee when they hear I’m coming in, Imran, SHOUT FROM A DISTANCE: IS THAT YOU GEORGE, OLD BOY? IMRAN (WHISPERS) who’s that? GEORGE (whispers back): Fred Smith, one of Tony’s lackeys FRED : George my dear old thing, I loved you on TV, shouting down the US GEORGE : well yes, if I ever catch up with the Prime Minister, he’ll get FRED : didn’t you get the invite to No 10 for Thursday? GEORGE : (coughs and mumbles) yes, but I had prior apointment FRED : oh, pity, but if you do want a meeting with the PM, text me GEORGE : well not sure when I have time, I’m a busy man, I can’t be having FRED : ok, well you know my number, if you ever change your mind, I know TB Fred runs off GEORGE : did you see that Imran, typical coward, scared of old bruiser IMRAN : I don’t think you have any meetings for Thursday, Mr Galloway? GEORGE : I’M GETTING JUST A BIT SICK OF YOUR ANSWERING BACK, GO HOME AND END.
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Monday, January 11, 2010 by Nanette Well, I’ve taken the plunge and switched the front page of the site to the main Human Beams blog. That means that unless melonhead or Doc, or anyone else whose name is listed in the left menu, decides to post here, this blog is basically closed. There is an rss link to the new blog on the front page. There are still a few kinks to work out, but so far, so good. This really is a plunge for me. In my wacky brain there is somehow a difference between posting directly to the main page (or, really, only page for now) and pulling in a feed. I guess I feel more of a responsibility, a commitment now that it’s done. Weird. I had planned to do this only after I had a regularly functioning computer, reliable internet access and plenty of quiet time to write. I have none of these things, but oh well. What’s that they say? Leap - and the net will appear.
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Saturday, January 09, 2010 It’s Almost Like Starting Over… by Nanette I’ve decided that the best plan - for me, for Human Beams - at this point in time, is to have no plan at all. Not, of course, that I will not and do not have goals in the back of my mind, or a vision of where I want things to go, but… well, I don’t know. It’s not that it never works out, it’s just that I think I need to just let it be, for right now. Not the site, although I had almost decided to do that, as well… even had the little “see you on a better day or in a better year” type post written out, but still in drafts. I can’t recall what happened before I could click “publish”, but I was interrupted in some way and thought I’d just go ahead and let it simmer for a bit. I’m glad I did. So, what’s going to happen? I’m not all that sure. I just feel I need to sort of “find my voice” again, as they say, writing about everything that seems to fit, and let whatever the site will be grow from that. I think it will be a stronger, more focused site that way. Or, maybe it’ll just stay a blog, whatever - no pressure! The page itself is changed too, by the way. It has no links to the other parts of the site (all of the articles are still available directly and through the archives), so it will be just this page and, if others are still writing on it, Stalking Sunlight. arin (who needs to stay warm in 17 degree wind chill!) set this up for me a couple of months ago, but I didn’t access it till now. Also, for those who have Stalking Sunlight on rss, the address will be changing as I switch over to the main site blog - I am not sure of that rss address yet, will post when I figure it out. This page may look a bit iffy from time to time as I play around with placement and stuff, but not to worry, it’ll all right itself (or I will yell for arin) eventually. Anyway, I am doing a lot of writing these days, which is a good thing, between my personal blog (Serenity… an expedition) and my Black history/book writing blog (The Book of Louis) and now this one, and wonder of wonders I am looking forward to doing more of it. Having no plan may free me up enough of my brain to actually make one, but not just yet. Okay. Time to begin my non-plan plan.
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Thursday, January 07, 2010 by Melonhead99 Still fighting the cold here, snowed in by nearly 4 inches of snow! local buses not running, terrible!, local schools closed! how can we cope? so if I don’t post again, you know why, I’ll be dead from being unable to go shopping, starving to death!
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Wednesday, January 06, 2010 by Nanette I apparently have - quite accidentally - set it up so that, if I email something to myself from my Blackberry, it will post here. I did attempt at one time to set up a “moblog” because it’s difficult for me to sign in and post, but it didn’t work. Or so I thought. Good thing I was just checking if my email was functioning properly and not sending state secrets (if I knew any) to myself. Let’s see if this one shows up, too. If so, I will probably start posting more regularly again. Maybe.
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by Nanette Chk
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Sunday, December 06, 2009 News Notes - Uganda’s “Kill Gays” Bill by Nanette I confess I’ve (yet again) not been keeping abreast of the news, but some things did pierce through the fog: Uganda - what the heck,? I know little about that country - except that my father was stationed there, with UNICEF, sometime in the 50s or 60s. Oh, and Idi Amin, of course, which is the first thing many think of when there is mention of Uganda. Now it seems that legislators there would like to replace that image with fresh hell, in the form of codifying genocide against gays and lesbians into law. Aided and encouraged, apparently, by some religious groups and leaders in the US. Links are difficult and time consuming for me, on this device, so I’m just going to refer you to Box Turtle Bulletin’s comprehensive collection of links located at the end of each of the pages linked above. Reading through them I notice that more people and governments are speaking out against this than I had previously thought, so that is a bit heartening.
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by Nanette I painted this a few years ago, copying from a gift bag. There is not really anything to say about it, it’s just that I am testing whether pics show up (am sending via email from my phone) and, if so, where.
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Thursday, November 12, 2009 by Melonhead99 Britain as 500 extra troops waiting, other countries have troops waiting, waiting for Obama to make up his mind on if America will send extra troops to Afghanistan, it’s well over a month of indecisiveness thats left NATO commanders unable to create a proper strategy, troops from America, Britain, and other places losing thier lives while Obama wonders whats best. Make up your mind Obama, in or out? We have men coming home in bodybags while we wait your decision!
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Monday, November 09, 2009 by Nanette Things are coming together a little bit (although it may not seem like at first glance). I’m not particularly worried about the delay (all on my part) in getting things going. I’ve started many things quickly, jumping right into them before I was ready and before the idea had time too meld into something workable for the long-term. This sort of forced planning/contemplation period can be a good thing. Is a good thing. I’m typing on a Blackberry right now. Cool tool and it’s enabling me to keep connected to things - classes, email, facebook, etc., - but it’s not the best for typing long things. Short blog posts, though? I can do that and will try to at least every other day until we are back up and running full speed.
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Friday, October 23, 2009 by Nanette Over the past couple of years I’ve spent quite a lot of time offline, with little or no access to the internet due to one thing or another, so - having got rid of cable ages ago because I just don’t watch much TV - for the first time in 11 or so years I’ve been getting most of my news and information from network TV. I am having trouble describing what that is like for me, but sitting at the bottom of a dark well listening to echoes of the same things over and over again comes close. Definitely no information overload, whether I am watching the local or national news or even reading the local paper. The same people reading/writing the same news (from slightly different perspectives each time, if we’re lucky) about the same events with the only real diversion from what appear to be scripts shared across networks coming in whatever little “slice of life” feature they choose to highlight. If that’s all there is, my friend, then let’s keep dancing indeed. No wonder so many of us are so ignorant of so many things. Thank the gods (and Al Gore) for the Internet.
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 New Title That Doesn’t Mention “Fun” by Nanette Sorry for my (again!) absence. Life interrupted, and all that. I am not yet entirely back although I should be able to check emails and post short things until I am actually here again. Thankfully, poor scouser/melonhead and Doc Logan have been ably keeping things going on the blog and plans have still been going forward behind the scenes for the next stage of Human Beams. Also, things aren’t all bad - while everything was falling apart here, I decided that this would be the best time for me to go ahead and get that college education and degree that was also interrupted so many years ago. I’m going to start out with distance learning, through University of Phoenix, as a “do anywhere, anytime” type thing would probably work best for me right now, because of caring for my mother and all. After I’ve completed this course (for an Associates in communication) I’ll consider my options. Possibly a traditional brick and mortar place or continuing distance learning, either through UoP or someplace else. We’ll see. For now, I’m looking forward to both working towards that and reformatting HB to make it more relevant to today’s world. Onward! and all that jazz. (PS The site might be down for a couple of days due to billing issues, but we’ll be back)
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Monday, October 19, 2009 by Melonhead99 looks like it’s just me and the spammer left
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Monday, September 28, 2009 by Melonhead99 Well had to happen sometime, a winner of a TV talent show thats actually talented!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhbKovroSgg&NR=1
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Monday, September 21, 2009 by Melonhead99 In an ever more dangerous world, like in what the one we live in is, it is important that we can protect ourselves. Now you might say ‘but we have guns’ and I say yes, yes we do have guns, but can we always get to them quickly enough? to which you answer ‘no’. Now unless you’ve gone to read something else before reaching this bit, here is a video that might help you. |
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