Sunday 15 August 2010

Cultural Rioting in an Alternative Belfast




I just got back from I just got back from holiday where I was exploring other cultural experiences outside our small country. When I got there I got asked the usual questions you get when you say your from Northern Ireland. i.e. "Are your you British or Irish?" I hate those question, I usually think its someone in disguise from Belfast trying to catch me out so they can stab me while I sleep on the top bunk of a 'triple' bunk bed.


When I got back to Belfast the first thing I read in the paper that there was again violence on the streets of Belfast. Not about religion or politics- But football. Its great we have moved on from the primal urge to hate and kill someone because of their politics or religion. Now we want to to do it on the grounds of football. Well done! We are moving up the hatred ladder and becoming more like every other major European city. Even though we are the 8th smallest in Europe we can pack a lot of hate.

I missed the meteor shower the other days because I was sleeping. I heard there was small lights floating across the sky. Nice.

The alternative forum for Belfast has got a summer school which was on last week. Fidel "Hackett" is taking the Urban design and mapping. Which probably ended in a lot of 'beardyness'.