Look guys I know we all have children, jobs, relationships, homes, Facebook, Twitter, TV, books, music, Sky, food, drink, air and water to think about/worry about but can we really sit back and allow the Mem Book to die?
We have already lost Woolworth's and Danny La Rue - this is an institution that must not follow the pick n mix and that somewhat odd trannie bloke.
Mem Bookers, remember the spirit of th th wicketball and return to the fold.
Your fellow Now people need you.
Amen.
11 years ago
I never left. I look every day, but I confess I do not post as much as I used to. Facebook certainly has taken something away from here, but that's no reason to stop it I know. I also have nothing to say most of the time. I find that many old habits I am losing.
ReplyDeleteOn the subject of Glastonbury, I stayed in the Travelodge there a few weeks ago as Collette and her merry band of players were in Street, and won the English Final of am-dram-ness. I really liked the town itself, it had a real charm. The travelodge was shit as always, but I cannot for the life of me expect that you will enjoy the festival. I cannot think of anything worse at our age. The musical treats will not outweigh teh suffering. Come back to this place and tell US it was FAB!
Sunny days like today remind me of the Wicketball world cup final. Like many cup finalists they tell you to enjoy every moment as you very rarely get the chance again. How true...
I best get on my bike now. I cycle to and from work now, which is ace until Hopwas Hill.
I will enjoy Tim Murray getting beat with a glass of Pimms in my hand at the top of our garden...
Goodnight 'Bookers.
I'm still here too. just waiting for inspiration. Didn't want to post about Michael Jackson (God how I hated all his 80s hits, and still do) but that was the only thing on my mind. Weird day of death on Thursday - Sky Saxon, Steven Wells, Farrah Fawcett and then MJ. Freaked me out.
ReplyDeleteBewildered by the outpouring of faux emotion regarding Jacko, has all the medja forgotten that only a year or two ago they had him as the bogey man, now we are bombarded by pictures of a outrageously talented cute 11 year old black boy, hideously abused by his father.
ReplyDeleteHowever, I thought Jackson's death produced some of the funniest jokes I've heard in a while. We should start to get to work on the Thatcher death jokes, Bowie, and hopefully Boy George death jokes - he can't expect to live a long life can he?
More upset about Farrah Fawcett, i really liked her slacks and taps.
Yes, and a huge disconnect between the mainstream media (sentimental, celebratory) and the new web n text media (cynical, loadsa jokes).
ReplyDeleteMJ is impossoble to mourn as his public persona - nay his very physical being - was an unreal construct - created both by the MJ camp, and enemy gold diggers. A mind boggling construct at that Bubbles, skin bleaching, skin whitening disease, drugs, kids, madness, child abuse, Liz Taylor calling him `the sanest man I know.' Oh What A Circus, as David Essex sang.
But I think him dangling Blanket from a hotel balcony was a fairly grim example of him being bonkers in an entirely shitty way.
Oh, and his voice was paper thin, and his 80s records unlistenably tense and claustrophobic.
Oh Sting where is thy death? Good point on Boy George, I'd like to see a mobile phone video of a rent boy killing him in a slippy spermy squabble over drugs. `Do you really want to hurt me?', our hero's last words.
heard another good one today - Madonna has joined in helping out the Jackson family, and agreed to adopt the chimp. I laughed at this earlier and then worried it might be racist? I don't think so, no...
ReplyDeleteAll the faux sadness was also apparent at Glasto. I kept reading the event was doiminated by Jacko - it wasn't. In the John Peel tent the comepere introduced each act with a new MJ joke and the laughs got bigger all day. The only people who mentioned him (and it was obviouslyin an ironic way) that I saw were...Spinal Tap. They said without MJ there would be no Tap. Ahem.
ReplyDeleteBest two t-shirts on site? I saw one from a woman on the Sunday saying 'Michael Jackson - four tickets anyone?' which made me smile and another spotted by a fellow reporter who was in the children's field where she saw a 5/6 year old with a t-shirt saying 'I was just too much for Michael Jackson...' Harsh. But a little bit funny.
Will post some Glasto bits in a mo. Suffice to say I loved it - and it was even bigger than the Tamworth Rock Festival. No, really.
Oh and as for the next celeb we want to die I am afraid there is only one - Phil Collins.
ReplyDeleteThree dead Ramones and yet he still lives. And they call that justice.