Whiter



‘Keep those doggies rollin’
Man, I love this
Great white wilderness shit.

Great to be out of London
For a bit
Brimming with action
Press gang busy
Trying to wrap up warm

‘Keep those doggies rollin’
Of course we must reduce
Our carbon use
Must reduce the global warming
‘Keeps those doggies rolling’
Hope this is playing well,
- Playing well back home
‘I love to go a wandering’
Playing well back home
Show my fitness and my youth
‘Dashing all the way’
Into deep snow bunker
Selected Spitzbergans
Designer berghaus jerkins
Playing well back home.
Rawhide.
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© D DeBreffney

Coronation Street actor
I saw this Coronation Street actor the other night in the bar of the Royal Court Theatre; don't know her name. She was with some Scottish actor, whom I was trying to glean some information from, about The Winterling. Not very successfully, as it turned out. I gave up watching soaps about 5 years ago, as a new year's resolution. It seems such a waste of a life. My mother watches it in Ireland. I can hardly watch anything now on tv as I have a tube/metro/subway station at the end of the garden that really screws up the signal. It's not much of a loss really. So I am now doing a literature degree in my spare time, which is a better use of my time. Shakespeare's Henry V tonight - must watch the Kenneth Branagh's video again. Strong parallels between Henry's justification for going to war with France and Blair's outrageous adventure in Iraq.
'Once more into the breech...'
Check it out.

Jeremy Paxman
Like many people, I like to watch Newsnight at the end of the day. I sometimes think however, it lacks a punch, or at least baulks at taking a point to it's ultimate conclusion. I know the BBC is restrained by government threats (in other words 10 Downing Street, in other words, Blair) to take care it doesn't go too far - or it will lose its unique postion; but sometimes I wonder when things are getting very McCarthyite or 1930's both here and in the States; and I hear Orwell's voice ringing in my ear about how bad the situation is getting. I just want to see Jeremy Paxman, say to Blair or one of his henchman or women 'This is absolutely fucking outrageous' 'How much longer are you going to lie to the British public?' 'Up with this I will no longer put'and then he removes his microphone and storms out of the studio. (Shades of the movie Network) You suspect he thinks this way. Read his books. It won't happen, sadly. Even Paxo is too reserved an Englishman to do what he should...

Gene Pitney 1941-2006
– with much respect

There once was a singer called Gene
Who was huge on the sixties pop scene
“Something’s gotten hold of my Heart”
Well – OK – he was never Mozart
But truer words there never have been.

©David deBreffney

W Rooney
(This is no oil painting)