[the angel] said quietly, "The Authority, God the Creator, the Lord, Yahweh, El, Adoni, the King, the Father, the Almighty - those were the names he gave himself. He was never the creator. He was an angel like ourselves - the first angel, true, the most powerful, but he was formed of Dust as we are - The first angels condensed out of Dust, and the Authority was the first of all. He told all who came after him that he had created them, but it was a lie."
Philip Pullman - The Amber Spyglass



Well, it seems the best word known to man has spread. 'Glue' has now taken up my favourite word and have a website called glue, which is mostly about glue (in the glueboot sense of the word). I was slightly upset a few years ago when Irvine Welsh decided to call a novel glue (which I haven't read incidently) and now I am even more bothered. I feel that I should maybe be pleased as it is perhaps the viral spread of my premiere word... but I'm not... bastards.

In happier news, the blog formerlly known as 'H.U.H.?' now known as The wrong side of capitalism has decided to produce a t-shirt and emerge itself further into the wrong side of capitalism. Excellent! Looks very good and I have to say that I'm impressed. Unfortunately no glueboot t-shirts will be produced as glueboot does not advocate the wearing of clothes.

Tonight Philip Pullman was on the South Bank Show which cheered me up though I was quite merry after lots of wine. Philip Pullman is my most favourite of childrens authors and the 'His Dark Materials' trilogy is fantastic. His critiques of previous childrens authors and especially of the church is fantastic. Here is what the Christian Teachers organisation had to say about it. Mwhahahaha! Pullman doesn't just critique the church but subverts it and gives rise to questions that authors such as Tolkien, Lewis and Rowling were never quite able to. It's never so much a matter of 'I hate the church!' but more that this is what misplaced authority has the capacity to do. Acts that are thought to be good (at least good for the maintenance of a corrupt church and pseudo-god) are in fact horribly evil. Unfortunately I read the books before I wrote my blog but maybe I'll post something about it. There are some fantastic passages.

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