On Holidays...

The Creator had a master tape
but he left it in a car
-Porcupine Tree

No Franco Sense
Today is the anniversary of Franco's death. Every year there are parades for him. Some are old geezers who know nothing else and some are neo-Nazi's. There's actually been a lot of posters around for the National Front: a Nazi-like, KKK like org that i believe has it's roots in Egland (some football hooligans are in the national front). Anyway, a pro-left person was killed by a Francoist in Sol (Mel and JJ know it) here in Madrid last week. He was 26 and stabbed to death. The details are still quite sketchy, but there was a riot after. I never saw it even though i went through the area last Sunday, which was when it took place.

Fuck the facists. Fuck Franco. Long live freedom! We've only got about 75 years left before half the planet's population dies from an ecological shit storm anyway!

Acion de Gracias
That's what they call Thanksgiving, which is not celebrated here at all and for the first time in my life – i will work! No biggie.

Thanks all of you who have sent Happy Thanksgiving e-mails!

Teaching goes well. Maria is well. All is well.

Thanks also to our Rebel outposts in NJ and Seoul. The Rebellion grows. The Republic will rise and the Empire will fall. It is the way of things.

I am watching INTERMDIO; the Spanish equivalent of the Daily Show. They are roasting Franco a bit- and you get to vote through your mobile if Franco was BUENO: and they show him with a picture of Groucho Marx and others or MALO: and they show him with in picture of Hitler and others.

Now they are asking people on the street what they are thankful for: I guess a nod to Thanksgiving.