Shopping At The End Of The World
I’m writing this on paper. The Internet is in the kitchen, dripping from a faucet but I don’t have a glass. It’s back to Majestic City – a cunning simulation of Circuit City after a week of heavy shelling and riots. It’s a pile of sweaty men and the strip-tease of alleged computer hardware in the back. The clerks hold Carbon Copy Kalishnikovs, holding back the hordes with signatures and stamps. There is no marketing here. It’s just a market.
Sometimes I think that if you bombed London and came back in 3 months it would look like this. Computers would still be on sale. You’d just have to deal with limbless beggars on the way out – tapping on your car window like spirits of the apocalypse.
The Mahavamsa (a history of Sri Lanka) is full of conflicts between generals and kings. Usually, the more bloodthirsty and unscrupulous would win. Our current (elected) ruler Mahinda Rajapaksa has had his own general conflicts, namely with one Sarath Fonseka. In the old days Fonseka would have staged a coup, as in literally try to cut of Mahinda’s head, and Mahinda would – if that failed – tie him to four elephants and split his parts asunder. Can’t do that shit anymore. Instead Fonseka ran for office and lost and Mahinda tossed him in jail.
Today on the 
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This is highly dubious. Miss Travel is a travel/social networking site that connects ‘Generous’ and ‘Attractive’ travelers. To, like, travel together, I guess. It all seems a bit like arranged prostitution and trafficking. This is part of a broader online trend to connect rich men to younger, attractive women. Sites like 
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