Something wicked this way comes

Maybe I'm a crazy person with no understanding of the way the world works, but it disturbs me that the most powerful man in the world develops his policy on which wars to start, which global environmental treaties to sign up to by asking God. I actually found it a good deal less scary when I just believed him to be a deeply corrupt oil-industry puppet. Now he seems genuinely sinister. More sinister. Trying to understand how he thinks is like trying to understand how trees think, or the conversation of granite- strange and alien. There clearly is some kind of intelligence there, but it is not human.

Still, he can't be all bad...

I'm sure many other people have been in the situation where the homework got too much or you're still in the office as midnight approaches or you're on that long drive home and there is something wonderful about switching on the radio and hearing the most bizarre music you can imagine interspersed with the most reassuring voice in the world. Even when you weren't listening to John Peel's show, I now discover there was something reassuring just about knowing it was there. I can really clearly imagine his voice now, reading out listener comments: "We've got a message here from Glenatron, who says 'Thanks for playing that Cinerama track earlier- great to hear them again, and by the way, if I'd known you were going to die so soon I would have listened to have your show more often.'"

The world is a lesser place tonight than it was this morning.