“Run from what’s comfortable. Forget safety. Live where you fear to live. Destroy your reputation. Be notorious. I have tried prudent planning long enough. From now on I’ll be mad.”
I did a guided tour of the Vatican but there wasn’t enough time to go to the Castel, just down the road. Which was quite annoying because Giordano Bruno – my fave Italian – was imprisoned there. Anyhoo – look at the image above. Vatican vs Batu Khan. Batu Khan was the brother of Genghis […]
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The Flying Chair Jean-Jacques Renouard, Count of Villayer (1605-1691), is reported to have invented this mechanism. He perfected this system in Paris and, thanks to his ties with the House of Condé, installed it at Chantilly and at Versailles, in the prince’s own mansion. Saint-Simon comments on the invention of these flying chairs, “which by […]
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Say what you like about Boy George. He was born different. Some of us were. FACT! I remember my Dad’s reaction when Culture Club first appeared on Top of the Pops. What is that? He demanded. I can overlook everything about the BS surrounding George. It always was, is and evermore shall be HIS VOICE. […]
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Try a Scottish Bap. I bought 4 for £1 this morning. They are False, Fake and Phoney but eldest LOVES them. I’ve travelled across the Forth Rail Bridge and the Forth Road Bridge many times. Whenever we took a train over the rail bridge it was custom to throw a penny out of the window. […]
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At the risk of sounding all hinkydinky and hippytrippy, I’ve always known that this was my last shot at this stuff. That the curtain would fall when I do. My only EVER truly desperate wish was to have children. And I have. I can go (when I go) happy and fulfilled. This is probably the […]
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Nope, Static. You are NOT the only one who thinks this way. I’ve been ignored and erased from yt too. It’s a Badge of Honour…to be so hated that you have to be “killed.” In the World Wars, people like us get awarded medals for going above and beyond the call of duty. M’eh. No […]
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This is NOTHING like the books. Hamish is WELL over 6ft tall with flaming red hair and a true Highlander. Y’man who plays him here – name escapes all I can remember is Begbie – is a 5ft6 Glaswegian….SMALLER THAN ME. MC Beaton sold her Hamish stories to the TV company for squillions and regretted […]
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OMG. I missed the Tennyson bit? And he is my homie. Bad. Head Hung/Hanged in SHAME :o( From the Guardian Newspaper : We have recently pointed you at a graphic novel about the history of puzzles and at the first novel by Guardian setter Picaroon, each of which remains heavily recommended. Time for a peek at a golden-age […]
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Percy Bysshe Shelley wrote the latter. His wife, Mary Shelley, wrote the former. Better known as Frankenstein. A bit of poetry then a bit of a GB goggle. Go away :o) BTW : Ken Bran is a Belfast Boy…FECK ME !
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So yt says. Just because the U S of A will NOT recognise it’s Indigenous Peeps whereas the UK always has…doesn’t make us a FAKE nation. FACT! So the Native Americans (amazing people in my opinion) are not RECOGNISED by the Land of the Free. DO NOT PROJECT HATRED & BLAME US. WE KNOW OUR […]
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I’m beyond confused now. An annotation to Shakespeare’s Titus Andronicus says this about Aaron the Moor aka Judas… Morian (Aaron’s) account of his previous relations with the “Queen of Mehrenland” and the conquest of that land BY The Romans. Several points. Aaron’s lover in the play is Tamora, Queen of the Goths. By her he […]
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What is the meaning behind ‘Karma Chameleon’? Boy George once explained about the song: “The song is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. “It’s about trying to suck up to everybody. Basically, if you aren’t true, if you don’t act like you feel, then […]
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