John Lacey

Absence of Bravery

by John Lacey on June 5, 2013

I am procrastinating. I thought I might blog instead of just sit here. Though I’m not just sitting here. I am also listening to music videos on YouTube. YouTube keeps serving ads, alternating between ads encouraging me to joined the Armed Forces and ads encouraging support for those traumatised by their involvement in the same Armed Forces. The juxtaposition is striking, it is hard to believe it is an accident. But it must be, surely?

At any rate outside the realm of computer games I am pretty much a pacifist.

And today I am impersonating an artist. [Read More…]

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