Holiday post number 1

İt's somethıng like 40 degrees outside here and i've managed not to get burnt to a crisp so far. Update post on my holiday reading. Firstly the original list was suprisingly accurate. The only book i forgot was The Trials of Lenny Bruce. İ was also correct in my prediction that i'd succumb to temptation and buy more books at the airport. İ added a book called Reefer Madness by Erıc Schlosser. He also wrote the excellent Fast Food Natıon. Which i've just notıced has a kids version, hopefully as successful as the adult one.

I should probably point out that the keyboard is slightly alien and that i still havn't been able to make what looks like the comma button work nor the at symbol required for email addresses and like the true man that i am far to proud to ask the internet cafe staff for help. İ'll either figure it out for myself or damn well do without. I can live without comma's damn their insolence for thwarting me. On the other symbol i had better succeed or i'll not get into my email for a fortnight! Excellent i just found a comma button that works, see, excellent! A complete accident caused by a typo!

Anyway the other book i bought was The Corporation by Joel Bakan, which is a companion to the movie documentary of the same name. So far i've enjoyed readıng Reefer Madness, the fırst volume of The Earthsea Quadology and i've started on the Al-Jahseera book. It's just to damn hot to give any sort of critical analysis but i can safely say that Reefer Madness is every bit as good as Fast Food Nation, broader in scope but no worse for it.

So far i've just been catching up on the sports news, nothing of real interest to myself but i like to keep up. Think i'll stay out of the sun for a bit and maybe go watch the French GP and then watch the Motherwell Old boys ın Sky's Master football tournament. As much as i'm interested in the G8 summit and the issues that revolve about it i'm not really fussed by the details of the Live 8 concert which was the front page headline on the BBC website.