August 2008
9 posts
There Was A Girl
There was a girl …always a girl.
There was a girl in college.
Lisa… Laura… what was her name?
So nice, so pretty, so smart, she sparkled when she laughed.
Said she was keeping her veins pure …for heroin.
How pure I only heard of later.
I wish I could remember her name, she is always a girl now.
Today is the Summer Bank Holiday...
In the UK, on this day (Aug 25th) it is the Summer Bank Holiday (also known as the August Bank Holiday). You see, sometime around 1703, Sir Isaac Newton proposed to the Chancellor of the Exchequer take from the calendar certain days intended for merrymaking and hold them in trust and treated like a hard commodity. Though rocky at first — resulting in some unfortunate losses in the first...
That small elite...
I am now a member of that small elite that knows what it feels like to have squirrel paws shoved up your nose…
Fiction
Prior to the creation of Fiction (capital F) as we think of it todat, what existed prior were plays and epic poetry. There was a huge gap between the number of producers and the number of consumers.
Pinning an exact date to when Fiction began is hard, but Cervantes Don Quixote in 1605 is a reasonable tentpole. So we have had just over 400 years of it. In most of that time it was the province...
Hey Apple
Hey Apple,
Could we perhaps restrict AppStore reviews to people who have actually *bought* the app?
Your friend,
Jock
Perhaps? Perhaps! Perhaps...
I know this woman who is sweet as sweet can be
and when she agrees she says “yes” or “perhaps” or “maybe”
and when she can’t agree she says “no” or “perhaps” or “maybe”
and when she can’t agree nor disagree she says “yes” or “no” or “perhaps” or “maybe”