Ishmael Smith, 1950 to 23rd January 2020
Writer, Satirist and Blogger
Much missed.
"Call me Ishmael.... whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth and it requires a strong moral principle to prevent me from deliberately stepping into the street, and methodically knocking people's hats off - then I quietly take to the ship."
Moby Dick, Herman Melville
Across the dark seas of night to the bright shores of morning, mr ishmael, with all your good boys: Harris, gentleman of Lanarkshire, Buster minal, Barney Look Who's Barking, the Emperor Rocky Woo and Frankie Sweetheart.
20 comments:
Goodness me. 5 years already. Who knows where the time goes?
RIP, mr ishmael, Sir, and condolences to you, mrs i.
Thank you, mr mongoose, much appreciated.
Can't recall how or when I found Mr Ishmael. Maybe it dates back to the grubby Fawkes days?
But it was a great relief and much was learned along the way.
RIP Mr Ishmael. God knows how much acid he would need for his pen today.
Such anniversaries during the cruel winter are hard to bear, but I take refuge in the following saying, seen on a nearby memorial park bench .
Don’t cry because it’s over, smile because it happened
When I first became aware of mr ishmael I thought he was too hard on politicians, celebrities and jumped up royals, I have come to see he was exactly right, perhaps even a little too generous to them in his commentary.
Aye, mr mike, it would have been on the Order-Order blog, writing as stanislav, the young Polish plumber - an avatar born in 2006 in the Inverness public library, when mr ishmael was confronted by a library application form in a totally impossible language that he immediately assumed to be Gaelic. The librarian gently corrected him - no, no, there's no call for the Gaelic, nobody speaks it. This is Polish. To assist all our many new Polish citizens. So mr ishmael immediately began riffing on being a stranger in a strange land.
I don't know when you first joined our commentariat, mr mike, but, over the years, you have been a much-needed corrective to the mainstream media propaganda channels. Thank you for keeping on keeping on.
Thank you for that thought, mr cascadian. Here in the UcK we are suffering from a bit of a wind. Something is raging and howling out there.
I seem to remember a website called housepricecrash, mr mike, where someone had reposted an order-order stanislav rant. And thank the Gods they did or I might never have known about him.
cheers
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And then we would never have had the Collected Works according to editor mr verge.
Perhaps the two greatest satirists of the blogosphere, Stanislav and Call me Ishmael. I was pointed in this direction by a ‘freeman on the land’ blog many years ago. mr Ishmael brightened my days recovering from two heart operations, laughter the best cure for any troubles, especially here in darkest Lancashire. He is much missed, condolences mrs I.
My best wishes Mrs I. I can't believe it's now 5 years since the passing of the great man. He would really be in his element with this current crock of Marxist shit.
Please keep posting always brightens a dreich Sunday in Tamworth
Thank you, mr inmate - I'm glad all that laughing didn't burst your stitches and that you survived the combined onslaught of Stanislav and ishmael. I think he was a genius, but then, I'm biased. He always used to say that he was channelling something outwith himself and that he would often be laughing himself, at the keyboard, as his amazing inventions just poured out of him. When I used to beg for more Stanislav - he would sadly say that Stanislav had gone and that he couldn't find him anymore.
He certainly would, mr jockroach -and he would have loved the Trump Cirque d'Inauguration. And I am so flattered and warmed by your kind encouragement to keep posting.
He was a fierce joy.
Indeed he was, mr bungalow bill, you never said a truer word. I like that - fierce joy.
I don't comment much but read this blog almost every day: thank you for all the wonderful posts.
That was me, by the way. Bloody computers!
Wow, mr johnny, that's terrific of you to say so - I'm humbled and very pleased you enjoy the blog.
Came to Mr Ishmael via Fawkes then Old Holborn, Summer with Stan. I had insomnia, toothache and was out of work. My laughter might have been a bit hysterical. He made me see things from a different angle.
The above comment was from Yardarm.
He was good at that, mr yardarm - the different perspective. Helped us see beyond the stories we are told to keep us in line. editor mr verge has collected what he can from the sources you mention - but I'm pretty sure we don't have it all.
Thank you for staying with the blog. Many have come and gone over the years and it is not surprising that those commentators who loved to speak to Stan and Ishmael have moved on. But those who have stayed - they keep memory alive. Thank you - all of you.
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