Directory of Lost Causes

I've actually started writing a couple of blog entries, but haven't finished them for one reason or another. It seems like what I write on my blog tends to be very much something that is on my mind at a certain moment, and when that moment passes, it's very hard to return to it, which is probably why I still haven't finished my interrupted No Footprints in the Sand entry from a while back.

Anyway, I've still got my eye on the news and global warming, and still feel, in some ways, that everything else is irrelevant, that everything must stop until we've sorted this out. On the other hand, and I realise this may seem unhelpful to some people, I feel like there's nothing I can do about global warming apart from 'my bit', which I am, to some extent, doing, and that we'll cross the bridge of armageddon (or not) when we come to it. In other words, I didn't bloody-well invent the combustion engine or instigate the Industrial Revolution. I don't even like cars. I could quite happily live in a primitve arcadian world where we spend all our time tilling the land and playing music to each other round a bonfire roasting a wild boar that we have just caught in the nearby forest. I was born into this world when, in many ways, it was already too late. I might as well just try and make the most of my life.

I didn't even intend to write about global warming today, actually. I just meant to write a very silly, self-indulgent entry. Now I feel the need to get serious again and say stuff like, "That doesn't mean we should neglect our responsibilites" and so on, as if you couldn't work that out for yourself.

Heigh ho!

What I actually meant to write was that this site seemed to be malfunctioning earlier, and I couldn't get to my page by direct means, so I tried going via Google, by googling myself and clicking on the Google link, but I clicked on the Wikipedia link by mistake and discovered that someone has updated the article on me. Actually, it's not a fully-fledged article as yet, but what they call a stub:

Stubs are Wikipedia entries that have not received substantial attention from the editors of Wikipedia, and do not yet contain sufficient information on their subject matter. In other words, they are short or insufficient pieces of information and require additions to further increase Wikipedia's usefulness. The community values stubs as useful first steps toward complete articles. Anyone can complete a stub.

Anyway, I suppose it interested me just because I always assume that I'm an out-of-sight-out-of- mind sort of person, when actually my existence is also out there in the world, carrying on in the lives of other people without me even realising it. And this, of course, is the same for all of us. I wondered who first put the stub onto Wikipedia, and who updated it. The information, such as it is, is all correct. Is it someone I know? If so, no one has confessed as much to me. Whoever updated the thing has put a link to my blog here, so there's a reasonable chance they'll read this. So, if you are reading this, thanks for updating me, and I like your use of the word 'disambiguate'. Nice!

And the moral of the story? Well, if I'm going to attempt to elevate this entry beyond the realm of navel-gazing, I suppose it would be something along the lines of how we're all a part of each other's lives and that's all we've got until armageddon comes, which is very soon (probably). Do I have to spell it out?

I still don't really know what to do with this ego of mine, though.

I promise next time I'll write an entry that's not so navel-gazing.

By the way, there have been some cracking musical documentaries on telly recently. Has anyone seen the documentaries on Ian Dury, Stiff Records, The Fall and British folk music?