This week I have been
Reading
The 2011 Tour de France race guide.
Watching
An Idiot Abroad
Listening to
The xx
Discovering
(Or rediscovering) Hamlet - Nicki Greenberg's beautiful new version, thanks to the fabulous Snarkattack, who invited me along to see Nicki talk about the creative process behind the book.
Eating
- An enormous serve of bangers'n'mash and a nourishing pint of Kilkenny at the Town Hall one dismal Tuesday evening.
- A "Chachi" - chianina meatball sandwich - another brioche donut and some amazing chocolate tart at Beatrix, which Essjay has reviewed.
- A lazy Sunday lunch at The Crimean. The Polish hunter's stew (bigos) was just the thing to revive me after a chilly bike ride.
- Generous piles of fried food with oodles of chillies and sichuan peppercorns at Sichuan House
- Succulent suckling pig at Liberteene.
- An array of bright, zesty flavours at Chin Chin, where the only problem was having to choose only some of the items from what looks to be a menu that is all hits, no filler.
But then they’d have to get people to count all the votes, and those people might count the votes wrongly! Probably safer to rely on those impartial voting machines. Sure, they might break down, and sure, they might break down often enough and in just the right areas to change the result of the election, but at least there won’t be any dishonest people to get in the way! That is, unless those people maintaining those machines have been corrupted! Hmmm.
(No, I don’t know what I’m really saying, either.)
I know, I know. How about getting everybody in one room, then: “Put your hand up if…”? Uh, yeah, okay.
That, I would like to see. The entire population of American voters standing in a room together! But then you’d still have potentially dishonest people counting all the hands they saw and reporting back on how many that was, so I just don’t think that’s going to be a reliable enough solution either. Sorry.
Yay. Thank god there has been a change. Let’s hope Obama holds onto his liberal ideology. The US won’t kno what has hit it.