The Notting Hill carnival starts tomorrow,, whoops, today with all the glad handing photo opportunities that go with this massive corporate event. No one with any sense thinks it is a multicultural peace fest and why should it be. It's an expression of self by the West Indian community who no doubt felt compelled to assert themselves after events in Notting Hill in 1958 . It seems the police will be cracking down on 'erb smoking and general behaviour of the black kind. No softly softly this year. It will end in tears, mark my words.

A high falutin article on punk

Found on metafilter, a brilliant piece on black okies and what they found when they reached California. Mefi offers rwalks rwalks as password and username, so I'm passing it on.