tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post1446202636805945259..comments2024-03-28T16:31:27.365+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: THE SUNDAY ESSAY. LEST WE FORGET, AGAIN.call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger11125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81698145375875411022010-10-04T14:01:39.833+01:002010-10-04T14:01:39.833+01:00Now you mention it, Lilith, probably all the best ...Now you mention it, Lilith, probably all the best friends are, um, busy with other projects.<br /><br />Imelda Blair has the best idea, advertise for best friends and put them on the payroll, that way you can always sack them if they diss you.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80052694127364842322010-10-04T13:24:04.234+01:002010-10-04T13:24:04.234+01:00Do you suppose Naomi Campbell and Sarah Brown are ...Do you suppose Naomi Campbell and Sarah Brown are still best friends?lilithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05011676751221508167noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85300453529646771152010-10-04T02:14:50.633+01:002010-10-04T02:14:50.633+01:00Can't bear the News Quiz, mr dtp, Toskvig'...Can't bear the News Quiz, mr dtp, Toskvig's cackling at her own "jokes" and Hardy playing the licensed Fool, this, like most of the Radio Four output, is a flush long busted, comforting in a way to people of a certain age but viewed with a no-nonsense, critical eye, say, for instance, that of mr the dyers garden, actually dreadful tedious rubbish - there are folks, aren't there, who consider Have I Got Stale News For You to be fiercely satirical, Merton's tiresome, bogus absurdism wildly inventive and Hislop's funny but not very faces comic genius. It's all shit, Hardy, like Hislop and maybe, even - a propos mr TDG's observation - like your correspondent, all riding Ruin's runaway train, entertaining their audiences to the best of their ability as they charge towards the dynamited bridge.<br /><br />Aren't we old friends, mr caratacus, from stanislavia? No need, here, for admiration. Nothing happens but for the readership - no audience=no entertainment; anathema, that, to entrenched luvviedom and to skymadeupnewsandfilth but entrenched here, an article of faith, the speaking baton passes itself around but whoever holds it, this is a collective voice. Most of the time.call me ishmaelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41574757313790550222010-10-04T00:04:18.654+01:002010-10-04T00:04:18.654+01:00Anal sodomy? For a really big surprise, google Th...Anal sodomy? For a really big surprise, google The First Scandal Adam and Eve. Then click once or twice to get the surprise, which will be...too much work?Robert Hagedornnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-40587120652247598892010-10-03T23:47:02.388+01:002010-10-03T23:47:02.388+01:00Tour-de-force Mr I.
There are many whose collabor...Tour-de-force Mr I.<br /><br />There are many whose collaboration, or silence whilst the crimes were being commited, caused the infliction of the Blair/Brown disaster - not just the unlovely Mrs Brown. No doubt all driven by motives of personal gain.<br /><br />The body politic is now so rotten that its hard to see any way back. Its devil-take-the-hindmost - hard lines if you don't have the luck to be ahead of the pack.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-61569702759184559132010-10-03T20:03:42.496+01:002010-10-03T20:03:42.496+01:00Recent arrival to your site Ishmael.
Lost in admi...Recent arrival to your site Ishmael.<br /><br />Lost in admiration.<br /><br />Thanks.Caratacusnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-25345120430081625152010-10-03T19:46:06.755+01:002010-10-03T19:46:06.755+01:00But, as a demon to frighten the voters, he is actu...But, as a demon to frighten the voters, he is actually serving a useful purpose for once in his miserable existence.Mothers Ruinnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-38732010993912702332010-10-03T19:09:14.049+01:002010-10-03T19:09:14.049+01:00A hereditary ruler knows that his power is an acci...A hereditary ruler knows that his power is an accident of birth, to be justified in deed at every step: his title is the beginning of his authority, not the end. <br /><br />An elected ruler, by contrast, takes his election as licence to do whatever the fuck he wants, for if "the people", not history, is the highest court of appeal no one has valid grounds for objecting to anything he does.<br /><br />The fundamentals of your world view therefore inevitably lead to what you here decry: it is precisely by the dilution of fake power amongst the idiot many that we concentrate real power in the criminal few.TDGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-43554210606205504922010-10-03T18:56:49.239+01:002010-10-03T18:56:49.239+01:00I guess each of these fake political parties have ...I guess each of these fake political parties have their kindergartens, their training ground - exchange a grubby, vicious, hectoring, fuck you Jimmy union classroom for an Etonian, Oxbridge, my daddy's richer than your dad, who is this fucking Oik classroom and compare & contrast. No doubt the same cabalistic cunts emerge, or submerge to their positions of 'cock sucker in chief' but just don't let the other fucks know.<br /><br /> I caught an episode of the supposed comedy 'the news quiz' this aft and Jeremy Hardy wittered on about 'this isn't the government that people voted for'. But, surely that's contemptible bollox. the people voted for exactly what they got, namely, they're all a bunch of fucks so no zeitgeist, no 'momentum', no over riding sense of sol-yoo-shuns expressed by any of them so pick a team, pick a colour, what the fuck does it matter, anyway?<br /><br /> To imply that the co-alition has less authority than a majority party is to assume that the voters trusted their politicians in the first place. Sure, i'd like to see the Libs have more balls in standing up to the Tories but what do I care? Maybe the Libs are just doing what all politicians do and are making sure that funding goes to their constits and keeping any shit from their back.<br /><br /> I'm not sure any of them have a fucking (moral) bone in their body - just a dick to use in a dutch oven for gayers to circle the wagons and bum themselves rigid. This Comprehensive spending review thing may be bad news but it's just a different layer of cock suckers. I accidently had a scrap with this Director of Kiddies services and I only realized afterwards when I was getting bollocked from the Chief Legal twat that she wasn't even playing the same game let alone in the same league. If some kids died but her department had deniability then 'ker-fucking-ching'.<br /><br /> But yeah, equal opps enthusiasts, fuck em all.<br /><br /> Cheers Mr Ishmael, quality.Dick the Pricknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-35272041441376440222010-10-03T10:28:50.223+01:002010-10-03T10:28:50.223+01:00Amen, Brother Ishmael, Amen.
It is, as Mrs WOAR s...Amen, Brother Ishmael, Amen.<br /><br />It is, as Mrs WOAR says, scarcely believable that a man, who appeared to have climbed inside some stranger's body and who viscerally struggled with the most elementary of ordinary human behaviours (walking, smiling), could succeed in his ambition to bring Ruin down on our national and individual heads. At what point could a small child have pointed at this lumbering, naked Emperor-manque and spoken the truth to prevent his idiocy and malice becoming the way of the political world?<br /><br />For all the sense that this was a man 'ripp'd untimely from his mother's womb', a half-finished thing, he would never warrant a <i>Macbeth</i>. He is more a Caliban, the product of a wicked parent-master, turned vicious in his turn, prey to his basest appetites, grasping after shiny baubles, determined to laud over all those who demean him. And now Caliban Brown skulks on a tiny island of his own manufacture, convinced that the land he surveys is of milk and honey and justice.PT Barnumnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-23077187129716253422010-10-03T09:36:13.862+01:002010-10-03T09:36:13.862+01:00a departure less humiliating - parading her childr...<i>a departure less humiliating - parading her children</i>, <br /><br />Good point. He could have got them out hours, days, earlier, even with the cameras watching. She should have done it with or without his consent. They could just have pretended to be going to a kiddies' thing, sleepover or similar and stayed out. There was never any need for them to be part of the humiliation, except if he wanted the poor little sods to share his suffering by him hiding behind them. <br /><br />In the early days refusing to discuss the child except for the bare information, was one of the few things he got right. He only did that because he was trying to be in contrast to Blair. At some point he abandoned the lone shred of sense he ever had and stuck his own children on the bonfire. <br /><br />For conniving at this Sarah can be fairly castigated. She is their mother and supposed to be a PR, so she knew what she was doing. <br /><br />Looking back, I can hardly believe all this happened. Never mind Shakespeare, not even <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Masque_of_the_Red_Death_%28film%29" rel="nofollow">Roger Corman</a> would touch it.Woman on a Rafthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08897415591130901416noreply@blogger.com