Statement: My best friends are my soul food. Opposite view: Friends are over-rated as creative muses. The traditional muse of the 20th Century was an attractive, usually single, woman who was paid, or not, to inspire the usually male artist. Many male artists fell in love, or lust, with their muses and some muses fell…
It’s over We had something special But we have it no more I miss you I hated your goodbye I wish I could hold your hand again But I know it would break my heart
Dad loved his Dad jokes. ‘Why did the Mexican throw his wife off a bridge? Tequila’ He had a million of them and the rest of the family suffered for two decades and beyond. But he was a dab hand at fishing off a jetty or a marina. Once, we were holidaying down at Second…
I’m a little teapot Short and foul mouthed I don’t like children Or cats in my house I don’t like horses, Piss off dogs, Rack off people And fuck off frogs *** A sailor went out to sea, sea, sea Because he wanted to have a great big wee He struggled and heaved But couldn’t…
I write this sitting in the kitchen sink. I’ve always been short for my age, and I pride myself on my contortionist skills. My mother, who has dwarfism like me, regularly has to stand on some kitchen steps to wash the potatoes. But here I sit, in the sink, swishing the bubbles to and fro.…
Julie Montgomery was blessed with two parents who still loved each other as much as they loved their only child. When Julie was only two years of age Miriam, Julie’s mother, was ‘ruined’ internally by a violent home invasion that left her viciously raped and unable to have any more children. After the incident Miriam…
‘Scalpel.’ ‘Scalpel’ ‘I’m making an incision along the medial articulate line’ ‘Yes doctor’ ‘Forceps’ ‘Forceps’ Doctor Gerald Handsome, the city’s most skilled fracturalotomy surgeon, opened up the incision he had made and peered into the abyss he had opened up. He rummaged around in it. ‘Bugger,’ he exclaimed. ‘Yes doctor?’ ‘My wedding ring isn’t there.’…
In our previous communications we looked at ten persuasive techniques that advanced communicators use to influence us. Today we look at another five. Eleven Firstly, scarcity. Here’s a fun experiment from the 1970s—procure two identical glass cookie jars. In one jar put ten cookies, in the other, two. Same cookies. Now invite friends to tell…
The question occurred to me the other day, what do women want? Now, this isn’t the first time in my sixty odd years on earth that I’ve been interested in what women want, but it is the first time I’ve been interested in what women of my senior age are looking for when they are…
In our previous article, we looked at five persuasive techniques that advanced communicators use to influence us. Today we look at another five. Firstly, there’s social role expectations. Try this: place someone in an environment, in a role you have asked them to play but they don’t necessarily have experience in playing. Very often they…