Last Will and Testament
Posted by Vale The late, very great and much lamented Jake Thackray with his Last Will and Testament. By the way, isn’t You Tube a marvel? This version is awfully close to the black and white On the Braden Beat Saturday night image that flickers in my memory. Astonishing to find it preserved here: I, […]
RIP @GoodFunerals ur a legend
Proof positive that most Twitter users need to get a life is evidenced by the present fad for tweeting rumours of celeb deaths. When, last December, Jon Bon Jovi became aware that the twittersphere was chirruping news of his death he posted a link on @BonJovi to a TwitPic. The photo showed him smiling […]
Games people play
Posted by Kathryn Edwards California economist Glen Whitman’s preoccupation with ‘Two Things’ is such fun that it’s no wonder it gets whirled around the papers every now and again, most recently in Saturday’s Guardian. Its premiss – laid out by a man whom Professor Whitman met in a bar – is this: for […]
Goin’ Down Slow — Howlin’ Wolf
(spoken:) Man… You know I’ve been enjoyin’ things that kings and queens will never have! In fact kings and queens can never get ‘m. And they don’t even know about it! And good times? Mmmmmmmmm-mmh!! (sung:) I have had my fun, if I never get well no more (x 2) Oh my health is fadin’ […]
Death is a great score-settler
Hat tip to Xpiry
Quote of the day
“You don’t often see polka dots at a funeral.” Waldemar Januszczak in The Times here.
Double entendre of the day
WHITNEY HOUSTON Funeral Home Denies Leaking Casket Photo Headline in numerous newspapers following the publication by the National Enquirer of an unauthorised photo of Whitney Houston in her casket.
Modern life
yesterday was my mum’s heavenly birthday i light candles every day for my friends angels and wish them heavenly birthdays and put a pic in there garden yes she had a couple of verses put on but not one heavenly birthday wish or pic i know people dont have to do this but […]
Thoughts for Lent
Posted by Richard Rawlinson “I’ve been to funerals where I was pretty sure the majority were atheists and they listened to the vicar say the deceased had gone to a better place and everyone’s toes curled. We can’t prove it’s not so but the chances that it is, are rather meagre. If […]
R.E.M. – Find the River
Hey now, little speedyhead, The read on the speedometer says You have to go to task in the city Where people drown and people serve Don’t be shy. Your just dessert Is only just light years to go Me, my thoughts are flower strewn Ocean storm, bayberry moon I have got to leave to […]
