Bulletin Board of Bad Behavior

It's been ten days, people. Have a beer, for God's sake. Better yet, have a beer for the Christian right's sake. Because right is wrong and wrong is right. And the more we lose in Iraq the more Bush says we're winning. And black is white. And remember the slogans from George Orwell's 1984, which have actually only come back to the forefront of my memory just now:

"WAR IS PEACE"
"FREEDOM IS SLAVERY"
"IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH"

How apt these slogans are now astounds me. 1984 would have been my favourite book even if Dubya had never come to pass. I'm surprised Orwell was really as prophetic as it seemed he set out to be. I mean...I don't think he really set out to be prophetic. He just meant to warn people. But there's no such thing. In the late 70's or 80's I bet people would have said we would never ever repeat the mistake of Vietnam. Bush is creating a shitpile underneath a rug, and eventually it WILL smell. Just like a corpse can't remain fresh forever. But will the stench build in time for the election?

None of your fucking business if I just want a quiet fucking pint. Fuck me. I come her to have a sly snifter away from the missus and there's old Marky wearing his Harry Potter garb and poring over his astral charts and wanting to know what's up. It's worse than the wossname,flemish inquisition. Tell yer what though, I'd give that bird of that telly programme a right shagging. Whaughhh! I'd be like a dog with two dicks.

hmm... but I want vodka ... with cranberry and grapefruit juice... what the hell is that?

Luckily for me, after one of the worst weeks ever, I will be getting plastered from now until Monday (which is my birthday)

I get all nostalgic when folks talk of Orwell. He looms large in my own history. I gave my sister a copy of the original left book club edition of, "The Road to Wigan Pier." This probably makes no sense to you. Wigan Pier was, at the time of writng, one of his most controversial books. Over here (The US) it is all Animal Farm and 1984. A lot of his great stuff is in "The lion and the Unicorn." (His collected essays.) If you want I can give you detailed analysis about his "straight " novels, "Keep the Aspidistra Flying," and "Coming up for air." Or inded anything he has written - including my disagreements with his opinions on how to make a good cup of tea. (He famously wrote an essay on this topic)

If Myke still reads these pages I hope he would get a kick out of the fact that it was at a summer festival in South Carolina (Ashville) that I used George Orwell to settle an argument. We were watching a show by some local kids; dancing in wooden shoes. I mentioned that my parents were poor growing up in the pre-war years and after and wore wooden shoes. My in-laws, who came from the US which didn't suffer as deeply or for as long, thought I was pulling that gag from Monty Python were you boast about how bad you had it. The more I protested the more they thought I was farting about. The gang went home to various destinations. A few days later but I was able to send them all a photocopy of the cover of "The Road to Wigan Pier" and the first page of the book. (Which is a report not a novel) Orwell writes of being woken up in the darkness by the noise of the factory girls clogs on the way to work.

My dad was moved to Wigan (In the mighty North) about 1940, when they got bombed out of London. Once in a while it is nice to have such an authority back you up. Last year it was the centenary of the birth of Eric Blair. The interesting thing about him is that he is claimed bothby the right and the left over here. At home because of things like, "The Lion and the Unicorn." (Which are the animals that appear on the royal crest of arms, if you were wondering) The debate is not the same.

My round then.

Looking over this now it is posted I can readily gauge how much I have been drinking and how out of practice I am.

my fav is down and out in london and paris.

I love the lion and unicorn

Even more reason to love you.

I haven't posted to pub talk because I haven't been to a pub in a long time. Need McC around to encourage bad habits.

That doesn't mean I can't blather, or blether, or both. I'll write more when I'm not so damn sober.

because i have been remarkably stupid in a way. when on vacation in italy i rented a vespa and enjoyed it thoroughly and felt good about it since. then two weeks ago, i got bit with ebay fever and bid for a vespa et4 which i subsequently got supercheap. driving a fast scooter is just great -- no more traffic jams; no more parking space problems -- but it is also terrifying enough to prohibit heavy drinking. wossname, i think it was maverick, said you de-class yourself socially when you drive a scooter but i haven't noticed that yet. anyway, i drink less but have a lot of fun. come colder weather the juice will flow and the vespa will rest. and one more thing: i have no other thing. for the moment. round!

Yeah, I said that, but I'm allowed to, because I rode one for 2 years in Los Angeles, where if you drive anything less expensive than a BMW you are poor white trash.

I think they are fun, and definitely ok in Europe. Not so many freeways.

right, they have autobahn.

That's one , wiseass

I'm fuckin pissed again.

and another thing. make this fucking keyboard sit fucking still will yer yer cunt. who you looking at yer twat.