Tuesday, 19 January 2010

STRANGER THAN PRETTY MUCH ANYTHING




"Nationalised lender Northern Rock today said it would continue to sponsor Newcastle United Football Club after signing another four-year deal worth up to £10 million".

There is such an involuted matrix of contradictory symbolisms and socio-political implications in this dizzyingly poetic statement, that I don't quite know where to begin.

The zeitgeist as farce? We've gone way, way beyond that ...

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