So how do you follow a post that features a poem about dressing up as a sanitary towel? I am flummoxed... I really like to keep things varied and I hate to feel like the posts ever get samey. So where next?
We've had politics and news on the brain a bit here... some overseas stuff... what with the Jon Stewart 'restore sanity' thing over in the USA... and his Obama interview last week (here)... and then I read an interview today with that old hack P.J.O'Rourke (I interviewed him myself a few years back... he was really very dull in person... right-wingers, I ask you... even the funny ones are dull). And then ('at home') there have been all the 'where to cut next' financial/political stories in the news... and how did Boris Johnson get to be the voice of reason..? Terrifying.
And then someone mentioned Victoria Wood in the comments to the last post so I had a little trawl online and come across the clip below and it seemed appropriate (it's not hilarious or anything but it has its moments). It features Julie Walters too – she really knows what to do with a face.
There was a lovely interview with Victoria Wood in the 'Guardian' not long back (here). She's a smasher, she really is.
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I can absolutely promise you that the first sentence of this post has never been written before in any other blog. Or perhaps anywhere. Ever.
Did you see that Tea Party prog tonight? Scary...
No, but I have read a few articles about it (the astroturf=fake grassroots business and all that).
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Always plump for the red cabbage!
'tis the most famous V Wood quote is it not? Certainly I've known quite a few people who couldn't get through a day without saying it ('red cabbage, how much?').
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What am I supposed to think about that red cabbage - how to cook it, how to make it into a work of art (I once did this when I did my C and G in design!). how to write a poem about it. Once again I am fair flummoxed! Yes I really have led a very sheltered life!!
You've made a cabbage into a work of art, Weaver! Not so sheltered really...
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If I'd only seen this BEFORE I went to vote, I think I'd have written in the ladies' names. :)
Thanks for the laugh on a not so funny election day here.
I know... in reality politics is anything but funny!
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I was actually daring to feel smug I had left the UK but they're investing more in the military here and I wonder if I should be worried...Haven't seen a red cabbage for yonks...nice chuckle there...
Smugness is usually the sign that a fall is on its way...
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That's just par for the course, then. I never did walk on a smooth path yet.
been catching up.. and you sound on mighty form!.. trips to london.. poems about sanitary wear.. most excellent! I know what you mean about reading other peoples poetry too. In fact some of the best poems I've enjoyed have been things from the poetry bus... and most things by Dylan Thomas!
(it's the watercat by the way)
Glad to see you back Guns/Cats!
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