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Monthly Archives: October 2007
Pope duck
Tempted? If making your own holy water (just immerse pope duck in bath!) doesn’t grab you, try some of the other goodies Miss Poppy has in stock. (The Handzoff anti-masturbation cream looks like a real bargain.) Go on! You won’t … Continue reading
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Italy rules OK. OK?
Two reminders yesterday that the autonomy of the Republic of Italy isn’t a given. One. Rome’s court of assizes decided that there was no case to be made against the murderer of Nicola Calipari, the Italian secret service agent who … Continue reading
Posted in freedom of speech, italy, USA, vatican, war
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Happy birthday to whole universe! And me! (Two days late)
Tom Raworth has just reminded me that, according to Archbishop James Ussher, I share my birthday with Heaven and Earth, created on 23 October 4004 BC. Other people whose birthdays coincide with mine and the entire caboodle include Diana Dors, … Continue reading
Posted in birthday, creationism
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What it says on the packet
Suffering from what is almost certainly post-party flu, I’ve been a recent visitor to our local chemist’s and I’ve been struck, as always, by the subtle, and not so subtle, cultural differences between the UK and Italy. In England, medicines … Continue reading
Posted in customer care, england, italy
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A normal country
The problem with talking about events in Italy, particularly political events, is that, as they move forward, often at a great rate and with considerable fluster, they nonetheless drag their significance behind them, fanning out into an endless murk, so … Continue reading
Posted in corruption, italy, justice, politics
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Red
I know I should get worked up about this dreadful act of vandalism at the Trevi fountain, but I can’t. The red stuff thrown into the water is harmless, the man responsible claims to be a futurist, which these days … Continue reading
Posted in art, politics
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Clench, dean, clench…
Remember the auto-erotically asphyxiated pastor a few posts below (click here)? The one with a condom-sheathed dildo up his, er, revealed truth? It turns out he was once the dean of Jerry Falwell’s ‘university’. Probably gave out straight ‘A’s in … Continue reading
Posted in falwell, good riddance, hypocrisy, religion, sex
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The benefits of a university education
Shortly before New Writing 15 came out in June, I entered the title into Google to see what pre-publication attention, if any, it was getting. The faint, almost inaudible buzz I did find came from the blogs of a handful … Continue reading
Posted in new writing 15, publishing, writing
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