of the seven deadly sins, the eighth and worst by far is emotional blackmail ... the diligent practise of this subtle and ancient art creates a constantly evolving darwinistic moral vacuum in which the brightest new manipulative ideas and stratagems flourish ... and which only you, or i, can fill !
Wednesday, February 01, 2006
Sunday, January 29, 2006
Saturday, January 28, 2006
Friday, January 27, 2006
Wednesday, January 25, 2006
mad jack fuller's pyramid ...
memorial to jack fuller in brightling church
Sunday, January 22, 2006
pussy cat, pussy cat, where have you been ?
years of searching for driftwood and oddities amongst the pebbles on brighton beach have sharpened my eyes and so i nearly fell off my bike to avoid running over this little pussy cat ... she's about 35mm x 25mm ... she's lost a couple of stones but how she escaped being crushed on one of london's busy arterial roads is a mystery
my client will plead temporary insanity, m'lud
in the first hour of daylight, when the conscience and all aesthetic sensibilities are weakest, i murmured to the loved one, semi-dormant upon the adjacent pillow,
"if i bought you a carrier bag or two of new plasticene, you could make a life sized bust of me, brightly coloured !"
adding after insufficient consideration,
"... or marzipan !"
after a significant silence, somehow the conversation cum monologue turned to the absence of a chamberpot in our tiny residence, and whether we might have,
"wedgewood, or waterford crystal ?"
"if i bought you a carrier bag or two of new plasticene, you could make a life sized bust of me, brightly coloured !"
adding after insufficient consideration,
"... or marzipan !"
after a significant silence, somehow the conversation cum monologue turned to the absence of a chamberpot in our tiny residence, and whether we might have,
"wedgewood, or waterford crystal ?"
Friday, January 20, 2006
Thursday, January 19, 2006
cognitive dissonance and incipient aphasia ?
I had a little trouble with the quick crossword in the Guardian this morning.
The clue was "Landlocked anchorage in the Orkney Islands (5,4)".
The words that stuck in my head for two whole minutes were Sullom Voe.
The correct answer was, lurking behind the wrong one, and on the wrong island, Scapa Flow.
Then, on my way home along the river bank, I stopped to admire some Thames mud and only half-remembered Flanders & Swann's song, "Mud, Glorious Mud!", unable to complete the tune in my head because it had temporarily fused itself together with the tune and words of "Food, Glorious Food!" by Lionel Bart.
As the old used to tell me in Wiltshire when I was a boy, "Old age doesn't come alone."
The clue was "Landlocked anchorage in the Orkney Islands (5,4)".
The words that stuck in my head for two whole minutes were Sullom Voe.
The correct answer was, lurking behind the wrong one, and on the wrong island, Scapa Flow.
Then, on my way home along the river bank, I stopped to admire some Thames mud and only half-remembered Flanders & Swann's song, "Mud, Glorious Mud!", unable to complete the tune in my head because it had temporarily fused itself together with the tune and words of "Food, Glorious Food!" by Lionel Bart.
As the old used to tell me in Wiltshire when I was a boy, "Old age doesn't come alone."
Wednesday, January 18, 2006
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
i think i'll renounce truck driving for religion ...
the loved one brought this picture from the wallace collection for me
it shows saint hilarion, the leader of a bunch of palestinian reclusives, resisting temptation
i've just been reading up on his life but can't find a clear description of this particular episode though many travelled to visit the recluse in his cave
am i to assume it is allegorical ?
can any one supply some dialogue ?
it shows saint hilarion, the leader of a bunch of palestinian reclusives, resisting temptation
i've just been reading up on his life but can't find a clear description of this particular episode though many travelled to visit the recluse in his cave
am i to assume it is allegorical ?
can any one supply some dialogue ?
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