Monthly Archives: June 2010

not being there

Garfield Minus Garfield. It’s a genius idea, really, isn’t it? I always thought Garfield was about a hundred times more irritating even than Snoopy at his very worst (though thinking about it they might be about the same amount of … Continue reading

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my silver ARSE (as it were)

Heh! Now there’s something I bet you thought you’d never see on this blog! But can you see why it’s here? In fact, I just used it as a post for Text Pixels, my poor old work-based-PR-based-copywriting-based professional blog, for … Continue reading

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the moon in Hampstead

Salomé, Gustave Moreau, 1876 I missed the full moon on Friday, but a pale gold disc hovered suggestively in the skies all weekend. It rose, a sliver off full, like a mythic experience over the rooftops of Fitzrovia on Thursday … Continue reading

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Poet files #6

Russell Crowe: poetry commander So last week we had secret poetry by the commander of BP, and a week or two before that we had secret poetry by our new (deputy) coalition commander. Now it’s time for a master (though … Continue reading

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school’s out

Well, it’s still hot. Forgive me if the mind is still on personal matters here; there’s a lot going on. Not only does your correspondent here have a three-week-old throat infection, plus corresponding amoxycillin and pain, plus prescription allergy pills … Continue reading

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