my life as a artist
a bit of bitty blog
Wednesday 25th July 2007 11:26 PM
Hello everybloggy,
I'd like to thank those of you who've left comments on this blog. Two of you, (It could be more, 'disappointed of Yatesbury' might be a collective) have pointed out, quite rightfully, but a little too bluntly, that George Melly is dead. I knew that, and I knew that you knew that, and I expected you to expect me to know that too, but now that I know that you thought I didn't know, I realise I should have made it more obvious that I knew. It was an attempted literary device that failed, and I'm sorry if it's led to any mistrust on your part.
'Disappointed of Yatesbury', after the Melly farrago, now suspects that all these blogs are pure invention. Only Harry Potter and News at Ten are pure invention. These docu-blogs are cyber-info-tainment, real observations, using real words, based on real events, that actually happened, in my mind.
D of Y also points out that the magic validation word, (a comment box filter to stop me being offered Viagra) is a sort of I Ching. Today's synchronous offering is the word, 'touch', conjuring up images of madness, genius, eroticism and football pitches. I don't know about you, but that really says something to me.
(Even though this is only a new paragraph to you, to me it's a brand new day, and twenty-one hours since the last sentence. It's not essential for you to know this, but I want to be honest with you because I'm trying to win back some of your trust after the George Melly debacle. This frank admission isn't really part of the loose narrative of the blog, so I've put it in parentheses, and as far as you and I are concerned, the only thing that's changed in our cyber-world is the magic validation word. It's now 'feed')
'Schadenfreude' is one of those fabulous german compound words that means taking pleasure in someone else's misfortune, and today I think I was guilty of it. I'm not proud of the fact that a small, wry smile flickered on my lips when I heard that the floods had reached Henley-on-Thames, or that I punched the air in exultant triumph and arranged a celebration dinner.
Although a boorishly northern and small-minded thing to do, it comforted me to know that those who inhabit lavishly furnished rooms, just off the corridors of power, first left, second door on the right, and think that Hull and Toll Bar are ship parts, are more likely to have heard of Henley-on Thames, and therefore more likely to shift their lardy bottoms and start stitching strategic sandbags.
News at Ten reported that when the emergency services were handing out bottled water to the residents of Henley-on-Thames, many of them were refusing it, because it wasn't Perrier.
As the dead brown water of entropy laps onto the donkeyless beach of disintegrating order, and Victoria Beckham wages jihad in Afghanistan as Osama bin Laden makes it big in L.A.,I can hear the inexorable, idiot tick of the doomsday clock, which is on the wall, just below the writing. When I hear that sound, I like to make a refreshing pot of orange pekoe China rose petal tea and eat seven of my mum's lemon and ginger biscuits. I'll just go and put the kettle on.
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Posted by packing machine manufacturer , on Saturday 8th December 2007, 7:16 PM
on the cannabis breaking news, i had waxed lyrical about pure 'erb versus mass-produced skunk - but your comment box ate all that. today's magic word is "waste" - say no more
Posted by still out to lunch , on Monday 30th July 2007, 11:35 AM
It's true about the cannabis - the Daily Mail led with it, so it must be. One joint and POOF! - you're mentally ill for ever.
Today's validation word is 'orbit' - that's where all those mad pot heads are, I suppose.
Posted by Only a little bit disappointed now of Yatesbury , on Friday 27th July 2007, 6:37 PM
I completely agree. Henley on Thames and it's residents should be permanently under water, along with all the other smug, comfortably-off parasites.
Posted by Les Miserable , on Friday 27th July 2007, 6:14 PM
I am sorry that you have revealed this less evolved side of your otherwise peaceful and generous nature (by exulting as others waded) But at least it shows you're human, I guess. Did you hear the BBC reporting today that cannabis can bring on pyschos
Posted by Out to Lunch , on Friday 27th July 2007, 5:23 PM
Well, I think I got that...
He IS actually dead then?
Today's word is 'spill'. Sounds a bit ominous, considering it's been raining quite a lot just recently.
Posted by Not quite so disappointed of Yatesbury , on Thursday 26th July 2007, 7:10 AM
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