May 25, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CB6Ja_T-42kCelebrated getting my CD player back yesterday (complete with poxy little car) by going for a spin in the country - sounds better than "driving like a maniac because I was late for my class" - and listening to my wonderful Roxy Music / Bryan Ferry compilation:
1. Virginia Plain
2. A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall 3. The Tracks Of My Tears 4. I Know How You Love Me 5. Street Life 6. Love Is The Drug 7. Sign Of The Times 8. Can't Let Go 9. That's How Strong My Love Is
10. Dance Away 11. Angel Eyes 12. Oh Yeah 13. Same Old Scene 14. My Only Love
15. Over You 16. Jealous Guy 17. More Than This 18. Avalon 19. Slave To Love Whenever I get to Sign Of The Times, I always remember Pat because it was one of her favourite songs at the time (1978). And also one of mine. Ditto Angels.
OK, time to get dressed. "Let's do it to them before they do it to us!" <- Hill Street Blues. I'm on episode 82 of 146. Please note that I am not advocating that you punch the first person you meet in the face.
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May 16, 2011
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May 14, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7i2GXHjYXQ(The song is pretty awful, so jump immediately to 3:44 for the most beautiful guitar solo you'll ever hear)
Here's Mikiature number 8 (of 200!). Also available as a download here.
Are We In Trouble Now
Upon a time once there was a man poor who had thoughts ordering his problems. More often than not, matter this didn’t. “Eggs, bacon and sausages, please”, “Bacon, sausages and eggs, please”, “Sausages, eggs and bacon, please”, “Pleas... Continue reading...
Posted by Mike Church.
May 7, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ADarLbF7Nsk&feature=relatedWent for a roll up the mountain with my wonderful wife last night, together with a romantic candle-lit dinner.
I had a cheese, ham and red pepper roll; she had chorizo, eggs and chips. Halfway through our meal, there was a power-cut, and out came fork 'andles. Four candles, sorry. With apologies to The Two Ronnies for blatant plagiarism.
I've never known a place take so long to produce the bill, but neither of us was complaining. On the... Continue reading...
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May 3, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkkw49Djxp8
Haven't been able to blog for a while; have had loads of probs with laptop, internet, not to mention this Yola blog itself, which is really difficult to write in. Anyway, plenty to smile about too, not least having agreed a publishing deal for dayrealing with my favourite man right now, Tim Roux of Night Publishing. I won't bore you with the details. Yet.
In the meantime, here's another Mikiature I wrote a couple of weeks ago. Haven't been able to re... Continue reading...
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April 15, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUUfY6CN8ywOperation Swimming Trunks began on Monday (I don’t want to go to the Wedding of the Year with a muffin top). And thanks to my BCP diet (Be Careful Puddinghead!), I have already lost a couple of pounds this week. Before I go any further, however, a word of warning: BCP can seriously improve your waistline, so please don’t try this at home unless you’re barking mad and/or fat. All I can say is that the BCP diet has always worked for me. Basically,... Continue reading...
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April 9, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eN-Ee7uXKYo Celebrated my birthday earlier this week by getting up on the 5th at 5am to start work on my new book:
Mikiatures
200 stories . . . of 200 words . . . in 200 minutes.
And this is the first story I wrote (and recorded):
We Can Work It Out
‘Er, Menu A, please. I’ll have the spring roll, special fried rice and sweet ’n’ sour pork.’
Except I ordered in Spanish, of course, because the menu was in Spanish. ‘Gracias.’ This particul... Continue reading...
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April 6, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBVjFBf4wWM
I'm delighted to hear that the funniest unpublished author on the web, Greg Levin, has at last been offered a publishing deal for his superb Notes on an Orange Burial.
Here is Greg in fine form (presumably written before he got offered a contract):
Dear Literary Agent:
Thank you for your recent rejection notification, but I am afraid that I cannot accept it at this time.
Please understand that I receive a high volume of rejection notifications and mus... Continue reading...
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April 2, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4jvw6xam08Facebook for the Intellectually-Challenged
I think I'm getting there. Slowly but surely . . .
If you click on Home, you get a random string of posts from a load of people you may or not know. The technical term for this is News Feed apparently. This is also the place to go if you want to poke people. Where or how, I do not know. Strictly speaking, the invitation is to "poke back", which I find worrying, as it suggests they have already "poked" me withou... Continue reading...
Posted by Mike Church.
March 28, 2011
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNyAzuB1-rE
So how did you enjoy your 47-hour weekend?
There was no turning the clock back now. Which reminded him: tonight they had to turn the clocks back. Last time there had been chaos, when Simon had asked the teachers to remind their students to “turn your clocks back an hour” when he meant “turn your clocks forward an hour”. Most teachers realised it was just a slip of the tongue, but one or two had taken Simon at his word, and duly passed on th... Continue reading...
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