Embracing The Suck, on Dispatch from the Razor's Edge

Plus: Middle East Continues Messy Rebirth

"I'm on the front line
don't worry I'll be fine
the story is just beginning
I say goodbye to my weakness
so long to the regret
and now I know that I'm alive"

- Shinedown,
"Diamond Eyes (Boom-Lay Boom-Lay Boom)"

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One degree centigrade. Iron grey skies. Freezing, blasting wind sweeping across Hyde Park and Kensington Gardens. (*)

This was officially one of those "You Don't Have To Enjoy It / You Just Have To Fucking Do It" runs.

Which, weirdly, I then sometimes find myself quite enjoying.

I think this is what our brothers and sisters in the military refer to as "embracing the suck".

Here's what I looked liked 30 seconds after getting back [artist's reimagining]:

(*)

In ongoing breaking news, not-so-huddling Middle Eastern masses continue their struggle to breathe free:

Police Battle Huge Protests Across Egypt

Violent protest spread across Cairo and other Egyptian cities on Friday as tens of thousands of demonstrators intensified their campaign to oust President Hosni Mubarak, pouring from mosques after noon prayers and clashing with police who fired tear gas, rubber bullets and water cannons.

The protests came after weeks of turmoil across the Arab world that toppled one leader in Tunisia and encouraged protesters to overcome deep-rooted fears of their autocratic leaders and take to the streets.

In a stunning turn of events, one pitched battle in that city ended with protesters and police shaking hands and sharing water bottles on the same street corner where minutes before they were exchanging hails of stones and tear-gas canisters were arcing through the sky.

The protests across Egypt have underscored the blistering pace of events that have transformed the Arab world… Earlier this month, entrenched autocracies seemed confident of their ability to ride out the protests. But, just two weeks ago, on Jan. 14, President Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia fled abruptly into exile after weeks of protest, and his departure emboldened demonstrators to take to the streets in other countries. Images of the lowly challenging the mighty have been relayed from one capital to the next…

If nothing appears here, something has gone wrong!

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Dispatch from the Razor's Edge is owned and operated by novelist, technologist, vegan, exercise junkie, classical liberal, rambler, and Londoner Michael Stephen Fuchs.

Fuchs is the author of the novels The Manuscript and Pandora's Sisters, both published worldwide by Macmillan in hardback, paperback and all e-book formats (and in translation); the D-Boys series of high-tech, high-concept, spec-ops military adventure novels – D-Boys, Counter-Assault, and Close Quarters Battle (coming in 2016); and is co-author, with Glynn James, of the bestselling Arisen series of special-operations military ZA novels. The second nicest thing anyone has ever said about his work was: "Fuchs seems to operate on the narrative principle of 'when in doubt put in a firefight'." (Kirkus Reviews, more here.)

Fuchs was born in New York; schooled in Virginia (UVa); and later emigrated to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived through the dot-com boom. Subsequently he decamped for an extended period of tramping before finally rocking up in London, where he now makes his home. He does a lot of travel blogging, most recently of some very long walks around the British Isles. He's been writing and developing for the web since 1994 and shows no particularly hopeful signs of stopping.

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