Since I last wrote I have been continuing my abstinence from online distraction. The longer I leave it the easier it gets. I feel like I am living in a world where I no longer know everything about everything. That came to light last week during the Stop on Line Piracy protests. I was delighted to find that Megaupload had been taken down, so delighted that I forwarded my delight to a friend who is very much still on Twitter. He told me that Twitter had been alight with masses of opinions by gazillions of people all varying in shapes and sizes. My first reaction was a breath of relief. Those are the Twitter and Facebook moments that I have grown to dread, and I am so glad to be away from it. My blood pressure is stable. Instead I have had discussions with like minded souls who are relatively on the same page, but who also have slight difference in opinions.  I was forwarded a couple of great articles alongside the Ben Watt/Robert Levine interview. Two of which you can read here

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/01/17/beyond_sopa/

http://freeloadingthebook.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/an-elegy-for-the-piracy-wars-on-the-occasion-of-the-sopapipa-blackouts/

 

Thanks to Ewan Pearson for sending me those.

 

In other news I have had my head buried in finishing Mother Rose.

 

 

And Freaks have signed a record to Hot Creations. More on that soon……