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“It was a golf cart. How it ended up in this predicament I don’t know,”

The predicament the golf cart found itself in was being under Bill Murray.

Mediocrity rules

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“stories are at the absolute center of human existence…”

Interesting interview with Alan Moore on Anarchism:

if we were to take out all the leaders tomorrow, and put them up against a wall and shoot them— and it’s a lovely thought, so let me just dwell on that for a moment before I dismiss it—but if we were to do that, society would probably collapse, because the majority of people have had thousands of years of being conditioned to depend upon leadership from a source outside themselves. That has become a crutch to an awful lot of people, and if you were to simply kick it away, then those people would simply fall over and take society with them.

He also puts his boot into the V for Vendetta movie again.

Amusing and irrelevant

The guys at Spike Magazine interviewed Tony Wilson a couple of years ago:

I remember going to a Rory Gallagher gig in 1975 at the Free Trade Hall and there was two thousand people and one thousand one hundred and ninety-nine people fucking hated me. And I just thought ‘What the fuck have I done to these fuckin people? What shits they are.’ And then about a year and a half later along came punk and suddenly I’m at The Circus and all these kids are like ‘Hey Tone, thanks for putting Costello on, thanks for putting Iggy Pop on.’ I realised I found my generation and they weren’t my fucking generation. So people shouting abuse has happened for a very long time and I find it kind of amusing and irrelevant.

You should also check out Spike’s ever fantastic Splinters blog.

Screw the bigger boat

I’m certainly still paddling in the bloody red ocean:

Satoru Iwata gleefully tells The Times that he is swimming in a clear sea teeming with women, pensioners and repentant couch potatoes… he is explaining his belief in the “Blue Ocean” theory of business, which says that to succeed you must reach markets (blue oceans) that are free from competitors. Venturing into “bloody red oceans”, where packs of rivals fight tooth and nail, can only lead to failure. The central premise – that it is best to zig when others zag – sums Mr Iwata up perfectly.

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