Grit in the Gears

I am the grit in the gears, the missing bolt, I am the poker of sticks into spokes. I like to know how things work, but sometimes when I take them apart and rebuild them, I have a few pieces left over. I am a man, so I tend to leave reading the instructions until after it goes wrong. And like all men I have a comprehensive mental map of the world and never need to ask directions. I never get lost, only sometimes I'm late, or end up in the wrong place entirely. It's what we do.

Friday, 7 September 2007

Revisited: The Sisterhood of the Pointy Heels

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You may recall that I spoke of the " Sisterhood of the Pointy Heels " long ago. This once-secret movement, is now growing in powe...
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Sunday, 2 September 2007

Insomnia - Irving Layton 1912-2006

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After the bath you lay on the bed exposing layers of beautiful washed skin we both stared at in surprise; long strands of hair, shiny and da...
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" I Knew a Woman" Theodore Roethke 1908-1963

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I knew a woman, lovely in her bones, When small birds sighed, she would sigh back at them Ah, when she moved, she moved more ways than one: ...
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Wednesday, 22 August 2007

Tom Waits from 'Small Change', 1976.

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Tom Traubert's Blues, (Four Sheets to the Wind in Copenhagen) Wasted and wounded It ain't what the moon d...
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Hearing Impaired like a Constipated Owl

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Jodee Berry, of Panama City, Florida, U.S.A., was a waitress at Hooters. As part of a sales promotion, in April... The waitresses were told...
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Monday, 20 August 2007

Dwarf, Vacuum Cleaner, ..........Superglue?

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Are you with me? Captain Dan, The Demon Dwarf , pictured below, the resident Vacuum-Dwarf of the Circus of Horrors , (who are currently pe...
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Thursday, 16 August 2007

Tinyurl. Life's too short to bother messing about with huge web addresses.

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Here's a most useful something I found long ago, and kind of assumed everybody knew about it. Now of course I know they don't. Ever ...
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Wednesday, 15 August 2007

From "Summer With Monika", Roger McGough. 1967

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Monica, the tea things are taking over, the cups are as big as bubble cars they throttle round the room, the tin-openers skate on the greasy...
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