Luis Suarez Greatest Hits Collection

New from Troubled World-Class Footballers Productions, the company that brought you such blockbusters as Zany Zidane's 'Nutters Paradise', Eric Cantona's 'Tie My Opposition Fan Down, Sport, That I May Unleash A Kangaroo Kick on His Posterior' and The Balotelli Boys' 'The Fireworks, Anti-Bullying, Failing to Put on a Bib, Silly Car Paintjobs, Chameleon HairJobs, Silly-Trickshots-Not-Coming-Off-With-Rapid-Substitution-In-America, Why Always Me? Album', 'Luis Suarez - Greatest Hits'.

• The collection has all your favourites including:
• Bite Me Baby One More Time
• Put Your Hand on my Balls
• I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Negritoes
• Golden Boot, Pewter Face
• Yellow Card (Is it Me You're Looking For?)
• You've Lost That Respectable Feeling
• What Could I Possibly Do Next?
• Twat Out of Hell
• Scarborough Fair
• I'm Having an Off Day But Will Still Find the Back of the Net (12" Version)

And, who could forget

• If I Could Cheat Back Time

Yes that's right, get ready for a big bloody Suarez fest, right in your ears! Be careful they don't get bitten off by Mr Suarez or his new buddy Mike Tyson. He's one of the world's best footballers and hi-jinkers, so lets forget the controversy and just focus on the good bits: his music.

RRP: Your soul.

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Manifest Exhibiton

Just wanted to tell y'all to get going to the Manifest exhibition, if you can. It's a showcase of collaborative pieces between poet Robert Sheppard and artist Pete Clarke.

I took a while before last Monday's MA session to take a look around the fifteen pieces (and the TV screen) that make up the collection, and I think 'impressive' is certainly top on my list of descriptives. The text-on-collage ranges from really striking boldly-coloured redblack pows in your face ('Tangled Scree, 2012'), to subtler pastel colours where the text submerges under some of the paint ('Invisible Cities, 2009').

Rarely on the page would you ever get such a diverse range of ways to try and read a text, let alone appreciate its correlation to other visual stimulus. I found myself wondering if I was reading image and regarding word and asking myself 'if I was reading it the right way' etc. In that way it was great art, surprisingly interactive in that sense. I appreciated it both from the perspective of a student of postmodernism (process on show) but also as someone who just likes engaging in new and exciting things.

It's on until April 26th, so there's still plenty of time to check it out. It's a great opportunity, not something you see often.

All relevant details about the event can be found on the first link, but also included are links to the collabortators' websites.

Peace out.

Good In Life

You know what I like in life? Rhymes based on how to safely mix alcoholic drinks. I'm sure you're all the same. There's that one, "Cider on beer makes you feel queer, beer on cider makes a good rider." Yeah, good one that isn't it? Then of course there's that other one, how does it go, "Wine on beer makes you feel queer, beer on wine makes you feel fine." Yeah, both got rhymes in them. I've made one myself, actually, hope you like it:

Wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine on wine makes you fall over.

G'night folks!

Sheringham

Bright weepiness thought,

Buttocks to an annoying humility.

Not thrilled to spastic –

Jot the low-paid knickers.

Hog sucker harasses incompletely –

Okay, spiffy, heroic beauty.

Exponential, valued rich

Yahoo! It is commodious youngness,

Temerity of grim strong man.

Hooey! Voice humorous looms,

Subverter, or warm amputee,

Six bugs! XXXX kings sexes.

North Norfolk Railway

White-hot as sinister stamina,
Hero-like, up-to-date psycho.
Suavely sweetlike cow hand,
Trim to many -
Milk VIP in unit.
I am the sleek twist -
Infective, sweet of honest Bonnie.
Huh! Sexiest, expert, hell-like exit,
Ego where wetter.
Sweatiest vehemency or foul,
Virtue of hero-like windbaggery.
Make-out butt-ace heathy hooknose -
Oh Jesus! He's pompous cosy!

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Interesting

This is the link to the LibraryThing Blog on amazon's power and policies. There is hope!

Ruth Fowler on Writing Courses and The Orange Prize's Shortfalls

Here is the article from The Huffington Post

thanks Neil

Nicholas Royle on the Rise of Creative Writing

This is the Times Higher Education article