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Grey on grey always good for a meditative state. This looks reverently sprayed and formed onto a concrete wall, some kind of sacred creature. It makes me stop and wonder who are the Daves? It makes me crave long twisted, cryptic stories from Dolores. Or perhaps I should sit still, stay calm and balanced, absorb each texture of grey.

Dear Man With Many Names (as opposed to Clint Eastwood who had none, poor mite). I agree on the colour-scheme wot favours meditative states. This 'ere meditator has meditated so well that she's Become One with the wall she was leaning on. It's OK, she's not complaining; she says she quite likes it.
The story of the dedication. Warning!: It's not cryptic at all but it's twisted enough, I daresay.
The Two Daves are David Edwards and David Cromwell, of famed Medialens, a website devoted to righting the endless wrongs of our darling "free media" (or meedja, as it properly should be called). If you're really curious I could post you a link. Me, without their existence I'd have gone 'round the twist long ago. Reading them reminds me that no, I'm not mad. Or bad. Or even dangerous to know. There. That deep.
Stay groovy, as per usual.

Thanks for introducing me to the Daves. It is liberating as well as challenging to read real critique of the way news and views are fed to us. So much of our thought and discourse in politics, culture, personal relations seems to me a shuffling round of received ideas.I try to be on the lookout for perspectives that break through the somnolent mass of passivity and conformity that we live in.

Of course, I'm a 'Guardian reader', but I've questioned more and more my membership of that comfortable 'club'. It is so good to hear critical, dissenting voices. Many thanks again, Dolores, you may have revived my flagging engagement in the wider world around me. The Daves raise a banner for the idea that each of us has the power of really looking, questioning and thinking. We may be a small brethren, but we might possess a subversive, creative power.

Up the Revolution! :-)
Actually tell them, the two Daves, how you feeel, si le cœur vous en dit... They never turn their noses to an extra bit of support and intellectual company. Bumba knows they get SO much shit from officialdom, poor mites.
As for being a Guardian reader...my best friend is one of those -also fast becoming extremely pissed off with it., may I add. And, hey! he's such fun to wind up, in any case, you know.
Thanks for the presence and the company.

Stop press. I DO understand so well the desire to curl up and let your interest in the outside world die of anemia. The wider world is, at the moment, so very bad. Not to say scary. But somehow, we must go on, even when we think we can't go on. Do or die in any kind of wheather! to paraphrase Conrad. I'm sure it annoys "them". :-)