Free Palestine! and Down With Tesco

So I set off to do some drawing on Saturday and stumbled across a protest heading past the Hippodrome. It was a group of Palestinians marching through town and with pen in hand I tagged along. They were stopping traffic but moving along before people got too annoyed, just enough to get themselves noticed. Quite an effective strategy it thought.

 

They were mostly Palestinians but with the usual token paranoid British protester who would stop and shout at every supermarket we came across, he even started on a G4S van claiming they built torture chambers. Sigh.

 

It was a small group but they really knew how to get attention and when to draw the line so good luck to them.  FREE PALESTINE!!!

Why I can't rap.

I was just in the shower pondering various things when I suddenly came to realise the reason why I can't rap. I realised that in order to be able to rap you have to be deeply ingrained in a specific culture, to understand it enough to be able to rap about it. Don't get me wrong this isn't me lamenting over my failure to break into a career in rap, on the contrary I think it's one of my best attributes. For example a rapper I heard once rapped 'mr politician on your television..something something.. all those lies' obviously he's from a politically left culture and understands it well enough to put it to words coherently and sincerely. But has he ever met a politician? Is he talking about all politicians? does he really understand the politician? I'd like to believe I'm in a better position to do so and I'm glad about that. but alas I myself have nothing to rap about. You could say I could rap about being a Barista but I don't have a big beard, arms covered in tattoos, I can make good coffee but I'm not culturally ingrained in it. I spread myself culturally thin, take that as you will but I thinks it's a positive thing. Rappers you could say are on the inside reaching out but I like to be on the outside reaching in, giving them all a high five perhaps.