Gonna dive right in with some weird ***t. Read a book yesterday - Fuse - by a Welsh poet, playwright, Patrick Jones - there's a connection to Manic Street Preachers - Patrick is Nicky Wire's brother and sometime collaborator with the manics. His writing - Patrick's was really angry very now and highly polemic. Just like my own in Defiance of God. www.myspace.com/defianceofgod
Anyway - today I hear via the web that this guy - Patrick Jones was scheduled to do a reading of his new book at Waterstones in Cardiff and it's cancelled - cause some right wing Christian fundamentalists had objected to the subject matter. Anti War - pro life - anti religion. Like are we living in Berlin 39 or what. Freedom of Speech - it's gone. He's a writer a poet a playwright, surely his mission is to enlighten and inform - and this is Wales - not the mid West of American. The Hayes in Cardiff, Waterstones - where Bill Bryson and Terry Pratchet have signed copies of their books. It's madness - a Welsh creative mind censored by the religous right wing! Dunnoh. I just lose any faith in humanity when stuff like this happens.
Guns N Roses are about to return with Chinese Democracy their first new disc in 15 years - looks like we have a chinese democrary here in Wales.
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