Fearing Empty Time

The Iraqi Communist Party

So I’m eating a falafel at the stand of the Iraqi Communist Party and I’m wondering how I came to be eating a falafel at the stand of the Iraqi Communist Party.

Well, the real reason is because I’m hungry.

The Portuguese Communist Party stand is selling some smelly fish and the Irish Communist Party stand only has beer.

I didn’t realise Iraq even had a Communist Party.

But a falafel is a falafel. It tastes okay, there are no tomatoes but I do note a Marxist-versus-theocratic-conflict spice.

The motto of the event, organized by the French left-wing paper L’Humanité, is Humans first.

Attendance is good due to the ongoing debt crisis and rising unemployment and growing inequality. Speaking of which, when is the new iPhone coming out?

Revolutionary Time

After the French Revolution, a decimal time system was put in place.
The day was divided into 10 hours, of 100 minutes each, of 100 seconds each.
So 1:23 wasn't 83 minutes long but 123 minutes.
The week was divided into ten days -but still only 1 day off- and the months were renamed.
The aim was to remove any royal and religious influence from the calendar.
The experiment didn't last long.
The decimal experiment that is, I think it's still too early to say on the Revolution experiment. (That's a Zhou Enlai gag...)

Trivial Pursuit

The World Is My Idea

Just thinking out loud...
Perception creates reality.
What we see is what we believe.
But the reality we see is produced, man-made, according to the dominant ideology, so it is artificial. Fake.
The societies we live in are as real as reality TV.
If I was watching this on television, I would switch off.
Is that the time? I should analyse this further but the reality is that I have to rush out to buy my Team GB Olympics souvenir scarf.

Give Me A Sign

So I'm between jobs -again- and I'm taking my head for a walk.
I'm looking for thoughts, for ideas, for inspirations.
Then I see some graffiti.
Fuck everything and become a pirate
I stop and re-read it.
Fuck everything and become a pirate
And there it is.
Steve Jobs once said, "Why join the navy if you can be a pirate?"
The signs are there if you look for them.
How you act on them is something else...

Lost Time

Before the factory gate
the worker suddenly stops
the good weather has tugged him by the coat
and as he turns round
and looks at the sun
all red all round
smiling in its burning sky
he winks his eye
familiarly
Say my friend Sun
don't you find
it's rather stupid
to give such a day
to a boss?

                                 -Jacques Prevert