It's All Over Now, Baby Blue

I'm saying goodbye to CDs.
What was it that kept me on them for so long?
Maybe inertia. Holding on to what you've been doing is always comforting.. if it ain't broke maybe don't fix it.
Maybe it's the whole ritual of dashing to the store, scouring aisle upon aisle, with that splice of song madly looping in your mix-tape mind.
And maybe even the rite of handing over money you don't hardly have.
And maybe not finding what you were looking for, in this and all the other stores, and coming away convinced, not a little unpleased, that you maybe know something no one else does.

Maybe buying music on-line just seems too easy. A click of the mouse and maybe if you have broadband, there! it’s on your hard-drive.
Maybe you’re thinking how can anything good come from something so easy?
Maybe that's the catch.

But really it was the Sony/Columbia copy protected CD of Bob Dylan’s “Bringing It All Back Home” with no polite indication and the Virgin Lady who countered “everyone has a CD player” and the vanishment of my $12.99 and the plastic silence and laptop indignation that is the why and therefore.

"Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.
Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.
The vagabond who's rapping at your door
Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.
Strike another match, go start anew
And it's all over now, Baby Blue.”

"Well I jumped up, turnedaround, spit in the air, fell on the ground
Asked him which was the way back home?
He said take a right at the light, keep goin' straight until night, and then boy, you're on your own."

OUT NOW! CLICK TO READ!

"She believed he could do anything
if he set his mind to it.
She believed he had invented
the washing machine."


Announcing the web launch of
"The Man Who Invented the Washing Machine"
A New Short Story by Alfie Lee
Wednesday 17 May 2006
Only @ alfieleewriting.com

World Enough & Time

Happy Mother's Day to both our Moms!
Good job!
We have to say, you've definitely outdone yourselves with the two of us!
: p
; )

Farewell Keano!

Roy Keane appearing for the final time in a United shirt for his testimonial at Old Trafford on May 9th '06.

Death to the Machine!

Chamber Street Station 1 am

Hero

"Robert Frank, Swiss, unobtrusive, nice, with that little camera that he raises and snaps with one hand he sucked a sad poem right out of America onto film, taking rank among the tragic poets of the world."
~ Jack Kerouac




Robert Frank's studio on Bleeker Street.

Another Day at the Office!

Michael Schumacher wins the European Grand Prix at the Nurburgring!
Woohoo!

MI:IV

This is the sequel to this

Singaporean Re-Writes Newton's 3rd Law:"Every Action has an Action Party"

The New Newton's 3rd Law states: "Alternative views possible without Opposition."

She's 75 this Week!

She's only the 9th tallest in the world and 2nd in the US but this architectural offspring of Shaq (O' Neal that is...) and Jacq (O nassis that is..) is a tall, tough and classy broad. It's no wonder Kong couldn't get enough of her.. And she's starred in more movies than Tom Hanks.. including a big supporting role in "Sleepless in Seattle".
Here's looking at you kid!

'Who Says Singapore is Not a True Democrazy?!'aka 'That's 4¢ Worth'

SINGAPORE : "Mentally unstable voters will get special help on polling day.

The Elections Department says no voters will be refused a ballot paper if their name appears on the Register of Electors.

In response to queries, it says election officials will attempt to explain to the mentally infirm how to vote.

However, if it is clear they are unable to comprehend what they are doing, officials will seek agreement from all the polling agents present that the voter be allowed to cast a blank vote."

Excerpt from: "Special help for mentally unstable voters on polling day"
By Rita Zahara, Channel NewsAsia

'Your Quality of Lift Will Improve!'aka '2¢ Worth'

The Singapore general elections are coming up.

"The hallmark of this election so far has been its predictability, in terms of where candidates from all parties will be fielded, and what analysts call "a profound lack of issues".

... But analysts I spoke to in fact agree that there is a pressing issue at hand, which is the future of Singapore, and where the elderly and needy stand in this future.

However, the "missing form incident" came along, and has hijacked the hustings.

Eugene Tan, Assistant Law Professor, SMU, said: "That prevents the parties from engaging on the issues that matter. It is not that the James Gomez issue doesn't matter. I think we need to rise above this, given that elections provide a rare opportunity for political parties to engage the voters in a very intensive campaign. I don't think if it drags on, it will do either party any benefit and in the end the voters will probably stand to lose because the real issues that matter... don't get aired."

... Some local issues have, however, managed to surface, such as lift upgrading, which seems to be the immediate need of residents at this election."

Excerpt from: "James Gomez issue will not be deciding factor in vote: analysts" by Hwee Goh, Channel NewsAsia

It Being Spring in New York City, RarelyA Day Passes By Without a Rally! Really!

Gumption and Outstanding Go on a Peace March on Broadway, Whereby They Meet Donald, Condoleeza, Dick and W., and Some Scary Nuns and W., and Some Peace-Lovin' Folk Bursting with Song in the Blazing Sun and W., and Some Hooded & Masked People Carrying Corrugated Corpses and W., and Some Other Folk, Many with Placards Aloft, One Seeming Dejected In Orange In a Cage, and Marching Flag-Bearing Communists and Once More Even, Again, W.