Archive for April, 2007
Castrato on the Strand
Man walks in to a restaurant. Grabs a kitchen knife then jumps up on a table and unzips himself. What happens next was caught on film .. No, only kidding, no-one with a 5.0 Mega-pixel mobile was on hand to film him hacking off his three card trick though it really did happen. Last Sunday [...]
Tags: castrato, self-mutilation, slang
Queen Kate, is a Queen no more. However I haven’t yet seen the royal courtier pinning the announcement to the palace gates now that there’s important news us Plebs need to know about.
Having been chased down the street by ‘buzzing insects‘ almost every day since she put a tentative crystal-slippered foot on those Palace steps, [...]
Tags: foxes, monachy
Carol On My Calf
Today I have returned to my hometown. Sitting in the early traffic, I wonder how many of my fellow-motorists might have been in my class at school, might be previous girlfriends, or I may have worked with? Things might have been so much different had I stayed: Got a proper job, married a local [...]
Tags: Southend-on-Sea, Tattoo
Three-Day Week
I’d like to mention a blog I found yesterday after a note in the Guardian’s listings magazine The Guide. Paleo-future (”a look into the future that never was”
is everything Sci-fi that I yearned to read as a lad: Wonderful artwork of 21st Century toon-land by hopeful visionaries of the 50s and 70s. If you [...]
Tags: April fool, Traditions