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Firstly, please note that we are open for business. We like to keep our pages open to comments, and in the old days, that meant ticking a box before posting. One day that option disappeared, but what WordPress failed to tell us, was that the facility remained available. They just hid it, and said nothing, … Continue reading 19th March – At times like these when enemies can number more than friends.
The spies at Dickie White Psyops Ltd, an independent, open-source, investigative journalism-type organisation, have been burning their ears whilst burning the midnight oil, listening in on the latest burning issues, to bring you news of all the latest hot topics. Here, in a fun Word Search format, they’ve hidden lots of the snippets from conversations … Continue reading 43rd Martober – What goes up must come down, spinning wheel got to go ’round.
Whether it is one of the first signs of early onset dementia, or specific lethologica to which I am forever stricken, I am indifferent, but, the word euphemism, causes me all sorts of problems. I start a sentence knowing that I am going to say it at some point, then as I get close to … Continue reading 10 March- it’s a beautiful noise, going on everywhere.
Dickie White, and close friend, and film & TV reviewer, Cubby Begge, swap stories about broken New Year’s resolutions - Part II. In Part I, Dickie admitted that he has recommenced urinating in the sink, but was granted absolution by Cubby on the grounds that he hasn’t yet done it while the dishes were still … Continue reading 5th March – Your scarf it was apricot.
A Complete Unknown - it's close, but it's not right. As wonderful as this film is in parts, its lack of interest in getting important facts right, means that it doesn't quite hit the bullseye in the same way that Elvis did. Did you ever see Amadeus? In that film, Salieri, Imperial Kapellmeister, and Court … Continue reading You’ll have to decide, whether Judas Iscariot had God on his side.
Dickie White still refuses to come out, for fear of breaking his New Year's Resolution not to think about killing himself until at least March. He has asked me to wish all participants in the forthcoming World War III, absolutely no luck at all.Yours in art, Cubby Begge - eyes face forward. A Real Pain … Continue reading Films, winter 2024-25.
We cannot deny that we have now arrived at that ugly saturation point of fame, so presciently identified by Andy Warhol, and, agonising as it is to be presented with ceaseless hours of – is the term Z-list celebrity any longer valid? Aren’t they all now so devalued by their ubiquity that they are (we … Continue reading 17th Oct – we’ll catch a runt and put him in a punt, and then we’ll let him go.
At about this time of year, every year, the twelve-year-olds who produce our radio & TV, news and current affairs shows, seem unable to resist the lure of the cheap win provided by an item about the change in the weather, as summer gives way to autumn. And when they do, they ALWAYS quote the … Continue reading 23rd Sept – Pennies in a stream. Falling leaves of sycamore
Apologies for my presence. If you recall, we came home at just before the General Election, full of plans and excitedly anticipating the future. All scuppered, of course – the failure in some part down to personal inefficiencies; in other ways by the deceit of others. All of it, ultimately sending us in an entirely … Continue reading 8th Sept – Fever in the funk house now.
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