Dispatches from NYC: Book reviewer?

Some of you may be aware that I have been keeping a blog where I keep a record of the books I have read (stretching all the way back to July last year) at http://gavinsbooklog.blogspot.com. However! I was moved to see if I could become a book reviewer somewhere, and so I have become one at www.newsblaze.com. There's the chance to get free books, and it's something constructive to do with my time rather than trying to win the Premier League with Manchester City in Football Manager (I think I'm up to 2015 and 9 real-time days spent on that so far). I've just had my first review put on the site, probably could have picked something a little bit more mainstream than a book about incest by the Marquis de Sade, but it's interesting! So if you wouldn't mind... please click here and go and have a read!

You're going to love my nuts

This is the best advert ever, plus the guy kinda looks like Two-Face:

Dispatches From NYC: But also gets cool!

I was walking down 7th Avenue on Monday night, and saw a sign advertising the big cup game between my hometown, Southend United, and Chelsea. I wanted to take a picture because it's not every day you see Southend United mentioned in New York. But there were these two guys standing by the sign. They asked me what I was doing, and when I told them, one of them asked if he could stand by the sign looking excited. So here is Southend's newest supporter...

Dispatches From NYC: New York gets scary

This man is not a prophet

Whilst browsing the sales on Barnes&Noble.com, I came across a book called

The Next Great Bubble Boom: How to Profit from the Greatest Boom in History: 2006-2010

which in the current climate must be worth reading only for ironic humour. How Harry S. Dent, Jr must regret writing this. A brief look at his predictions include:

• The Dow hitting 40,000 by the end of the decade
• The Nasdaq advancing at least ten times from its October 2001 lows to around 13,500, and potentially as high as 20,000 by 2009
• Another strong advance in stocks in 2005, with a significant correction into around September/October 2006
• The Great Boom resurging into its final and strongest stage in 2007, and even more fully in 2008, lasting until late 2009 to early 2010

It also goes on to say that the author has an "amazing ability to track and forecast our financial future is renowned, and here he takes that ability to the next level, showing not only what our economy will look like but also how it will affect us as individuals, as organizations,and as a culture. From the upcoming wealth revolution to the essential principles of entrepreneurial success, the book describes a new society where economic and philanthropic development go hand in hand. In The Next Great Bubble Boom, Dent shows not only how the economic growth of the late 1990s was a prelude to the true great boom right around the corner but how all of us can reap its benefits."

Sounds like utter fantasy!