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Blow Up

Sat 25th August 2012

"If you start messing about with my wife, I will kill you," said New Business Colleague. more »

Lethality

Thu 23rd August 2012

I go to Really Late, where I work as a volunteer receptionist, trying hard to remember to say neither the name of the organisation nor my name when I answer the phone, and wondering why all the counsellors are female, 50something, and with short grey hai… more »

Bilge

Thu 23rd August 2012

Trina and I took advantage of one of yesterday's few periods without rain, to rig up, somewhat ineptly, a tarpaulin, over the rear of her narrowboat. The one advantage of the task is that one gets justifiably to use the term "bilge pump". more »

Silly point

Mon 20th August 2012

Someone I know annoys me greatly with this email. Strange how some people can know you for several years and still remain ignorant of things you'll find pompous and pig-headed. more »

Ginger Minge

Thu 16th August 2012

"Listen Bryony, just to get this out of the way first, it'd be easier if we slept in the same room. I'll put that mattress down and you can have that, and I'm sure we could find a decorous way of getting ready for bed. more »

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looby, n.; pl. loobies. A lout; an awkward, stupid, clownish person

M / 62 / Bristol, "the most beautiful, interesting and distinguished city in England" -- John Betjeman [1961, source eludes me].

"Looby is a left-wing intellectual who is obsessed with a) women's clothes and b) tits." -- Joy of Bex.

WLTM literate woman, 45-70. Must have nice tits, a PhD, and an mdma factory in the shed, although the first on its own will do in the short term.

There are plenty of bastards who drink moderately. Of course, I don't consider them to be people. They are not our comrades.
Sergei Korovin, quoted in Pavel Krusanov, The Blue Book of the Alcoholic

I am here to change my life. I am here to force myself to change my life.
Chinese man I met during Freshers Week at Lancaster University, 2008

The more democratised art becomes, the more we recognise in it our own mediocrity.
James Meek

Tell me, why is it that even when we are enjoying music, for instance, or a beautiful evening, or a conversation in agreeable company, it all seems no more than a hint of some infinite felicity existing apart somewhere, rather than actual happiness – such, I mean, as we ourselves can really possess?
Turgenev, Fathers and Sons

I hate the iPod; I hate the idea that music is such a personal thing that you can just stick some earplugs in your ears and have an experience with music. Music is a social phenomenon.
Jeremy Wagner

La vie poetique has its pleasures, and readings--ideally a long way from home--are one of them. I can pretend to be George Szirtes.
George Szirtes

Using words well is a social virtue. Use 'fortuitous' once more to mean 'fortunate' and you move an English word another step towards the dustbin. If your mistake took hold, no-one who valued clarity would be able to use the word again.
John Whale

One good thing about being a Marxist is that you don't have to pretend to like work.
Terry Eagleton, What Is A Novel?, Lancaster University, 1 Feb 2010

The working man is a fucking loser.
Mick, The Golden Lion, Lancaster, 21 Mar 2011

The Comfort of Strangers

23.1.16: Big clearout of the defunct and dormant and dull
16.1.19: Further pruning

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