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Savvan cants

Sat 31st May 2014

Midnight, and the students in the street are yelling their heads off as a prelude for going out to shitty nightclubs and drinking themselves into dexualised vomit and Facebooked selfies. more »

Tilting at windmills

Thu 29th May 2014

A rainy day on the Fylde coast with a busty wench from North Wales. What more could a boy want? more »

27.5.14

Thu 29th May 2014

I took the girls and one of their friends to see We Are The Best, Lukas Moodysson's latest film, about a trio of young teenage girls who form an inept punk band. It pokes amused fun at a certain kind of well-meaning parents and youth workers, and was lau… more »

I am officially disabled

Mon 26th May 2014

"No, I can't do that. What if they ask me to prove I'm disabled? I'm not disabled." more »

I like girls who are into drugs

Tue 20th May 2014

After Trina and I split up, I went trawling again and was contacted by Donna, the pharmaceutical marketing manager. more »

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

M / 61 / 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, 40-65. 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

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Archives for: "May 2014"

Savvan cants

Tilting at windmills

27.5.14

I am officially disabled

I like girls who are into drugs

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

Rummage in my drawers

The Comfort of Strangers

"Just sit still and listen" - woman to teenage girl at Elliott Carter weekend, London 2006

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