tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post676711235074206513..comments2024-03-29T05:24:12.453+00:00Comments on call me ishmael: The Sunday Ishmael 17/10/21call me ishmaelhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14369028864168461729noreply@blogger.comBlogger21125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-31537275609460613072021-12-06T01:10:45.133+00:002021-12-06T01:10:45.133+00:00i won't denounce thom gunn's on the move a...i won't denounce thom gunn's <i>on the move</i> as a cheap rip-off of rainer maria rilke's 8th <i>duino elegy</i>, because i understand that mr gunn's mother committed suicide when he was a teenager, and frankly, i reckon the poor guy suffered enough - however, for those with a taste for repro rilke, i would certainly recommend ted hughes' healthy hetero animal-poetry.<br /><br />in order to snuff any vicious speculation at source, i would hasten to point out that mrs gunn's death occurred well prior to her son's poetic musings, by-the-way...<br /><br />but alas, the same defence cannot be mounted in the case of ted hughes.ultrapoxnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-81823936562010031182021-10-31T17:42:42.458+00:002021-10-31T17:42:42.458+00:00PS, sorry to Friedrich, and all on here, for the m...PS, sorry to Friedrich, and all on here, for the misspelling of "Nietzschean". The drink, you know. I'm sure the old comedian would understand.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-59485381516999320112021-10-31T17:37:29.215+00:002021-10-31T17:37:29.215+00:00He was exemplary, Mr Verge. Technically taut but i...He was exemplary, Mr Verge. Technically taut but insatiable. Nothing, only everything, was enough.Bungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-85578458787551179552021-10-31T12:16:04.683+00:002021-10-31T12:16:04.683+00:00Thanks again for that Gunnsmoke, mr BB - I just no...Thanks again for that Gunnsmoke, mr BB - I just noticed that an average American anglophone would likely miss the mischievously contradictory pun available in "future from the taken routes", the tendency there being to pronounce the last word to rhyme with gout. (Nothing so old-fashioned as gout for mr Gunn; according to wikipedia he died at 75 from "acute polysubstance abuse." How dare there be poets, as mr ishmael liked to say.)<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-44897249314138166012021-10-31T08:08:54.830+00:002021-10-31T08:08:54.830+00:00With photographs and large type, mr mike, you migh...With photographs and large type, mr mike, you might well be right, especially if we included the "reviews" of young Jamie & Marco P Gob. Probably outside my skill-set, though, incorporating photos between covers.<br /><br />Meanwhile the material for Ishmaels Blues is coming together - daunting but doable. (With, it now emerges, enough remaining stanislav highlights for a possible further book along the lines of Vent Stack.) And mrs ishmael showed me over a dozen emails that led to youtube comments on music videos, some of which are like brief "stanislav returns" outbursts; suffice to say the Mark Knopfler and Gerry Garcia fans didn't much care for the round of fucks being fired into their idols. Watch this space.<br /><br />Suppose we all dare a future from our taken routes, mr BB. <br /><br />cheers<br /><br />v./Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-41028541094894132422021-10-31T05:41:57.082+00:002021-10-31T05:41:57.082+00:00Mr verge: shirley there is enough material in the ...Mr verge: shirley there is enough material in the archives for a Stanislav cookery book?Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-55036107017490545852021-10-30T20:50:34.323+01:002021-10-30T20:50:34.323+01:00Hope you had a fine absence, Mrs I. The travelling...Hope you had a fine absence, Mrs I. The travelling time, the abolition of time therein, mattered for Mr I, I guess. Perhaps for you too.<br /><br />It's common to believers and scoffers. We're bound for elsewhere.<br /><br />Thom Gunn in his early, muscular, Nietzchean phase here but a fine thing, even so:<br /><br />https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/57037/on-the-moveBungalow Billnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-90306545697262068662021-10-24T00:09:33.839+01:002021-10-24T00:09:33.839+01:00Indeed, I saw some of that, mr mike. I thought it ...Indeed, I saw some of that, mr mike. I thought it was an extraordinary "the Emperor has got no clothes" moment.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-2491914493732015102021-10-23T03:16:26.025+01:002021-10-23T03:16:26.025+01:00I agree Mr mongoose this isn't a cock-up. Some...I agree Mr mongoose this isn't a cock-up. Something else is going on. You might be interested in listening to Putin's speech the other day at the Valdai Club in Russia. Its online. He speaks some very searing home truths to the West. A man at the heights of his intellectual powers; Biden....embarrassing, cringe-worthy.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-80704438837197199212021-10-22T19:54:16.082+01:002021-10-22T19:54:16.082+01:00I know that we discussed the conspiracy/cock-up ex...I know that we discussed the conspiracy/cock-up explanation business just a couple of weeks ago but things are getting seriously out of hand now. Energy from electricity costs five times what it does when it comes from gas. So what we are going to do is to stop using gas - even to make electricity FFS! - and re-engineer everyone's gaff to use heat pumps which don't pump heat when it gets cold. It doesn't make sense. It isn't evenly remotely feasible. And there isn't enough electricity to keep the lights on now let alone when everyone has electrified their everythings. And it's all going to be cheaper too! Hurrah! It is, I am afraid, a stupid idea and it is doomed to failure. <br /><br />It is however popular with the young people. They, of course, and famously, don't any longer have a practical bone in any of their bodies. If there isn't an app for it, they can't do it. My youngest tried to make yorkshire pudding at college the other week and assessed 6oz of plain flour by dividing the bag in the appropriate ratio. 6oz being whatever it is in grams, she estimated at about a fifth of the 1kg packet. The uselessness of the rest of the packet of flour - unless we start a system of stock chits - will dawn on her perhaps next time. SWMBO chimed in with "a cup and a bit". Alas, that did not compute. But I digress.<br /><br />Given that the periodical anture of glaciation is a known matter, the average length of same on earth likewise, the availability of the Greenland ice core data too, the lag of CO2 to temperature hinting at an embarrassing reverse causation... Etc etc. There should be a queue of eminent scientists much cleverer than me shouting warnings from the rooftops. But of course, they hide 'neath the stairs for fear of career ruination. David Bellamy having been about the first to be bayonetted pour encourager the autres.<br /><br />I cannot bear to discuss the covid lunacy these days. It is too depressing.<br /><br />TPTB cannot be so serially and consistently stupid. Therefore cock-up it cannot be.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-3936644078198256962021-10-22T09:29:11.808+01:002021-10-22T09:29:11.808+01:00Used to be a scientist could tell you something yo...Used to be a scientist could tell you something you don’t know and then explain it for your understanding.<br />Seems, now, a "scientist" will tell you something you don’t believe and has no evidence to back their theory.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-5456205778711823192021-10-22T05:40:49.688+01:002021-10-22T05:40:49.688+01:00Mr mongoose: you are not the only one confused by ...Mr mongoose: you are not the only one confused by what is going on now in the West. I spoke with my sister the other day; she lives in Canada. She's a rational soul and refuses the jab, but is now under virtual house arrest. Her grand-daughter (4 years) is in tears having to go to school in a mask. We both agreed that something sinister is happening.Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-89620385881422142772021-10-21T23:23:07.641+01:002021-10-21T23:23:07.641+01:00That's about the size of it, Mr DS. You would ...That's about the size of it, Mr DS. You would think that in a world that spends 90,000 years in a row getting ten degrees cooler than this a degree or two of warming would be a welcome thing. And all those heat pumps are going to get less and less useful too. It is a rum do and getting rummer.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-53243698774808689022021-10-21T07:34:02.781+01:002021-10-21T07:34:02.781+01:00It tells me that every 100 thousand years there is...It tells me that every 100 thousand years there is a peak in those 3 values at Dome Fuji.<br />And that we are approaching or are at a peak just now.<br />Doug Shouldersnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-58781475150607896392021-10-21T01:15:47.873+01:002021-10-21T01:15:47.873+01:00More to the point...
What does this tell you?More to the point...<br /><br />What does <a href="https://www.ncdc.noaa.gov/sites/default/files/styles/716px_width/public/glacial-interglacial.jpg?itok=19bwFcU9" rel="nofollow">this</a> tell you?mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-24034753644126247682021-10-19T13:01:38.793+01:002021-10-19T13:01:38.793+01:00A little climate loon link.
It just shows the com...<a href="https://climateactiontracker.org/media/images/CAT_2021-09_RatingsSummary-1-Overall.width-1000.png" rel="nofollow">A little climate loon link.</a><br /><br />It just shows the company we are keeping. Who is serious and who is mad.<br /><br />I found Largs somewhat disturbing actually. It was as if they had set The Prisoner in Vladivostok, mr v. mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-20995650560468234872021-10-18T10:02:49.840+01:002021-10-18T10:02:49.840+01:00Yes, indeed, Total Recall, very loosely built on P...Yes, indeed, Total Recall, very loosely built on Philip K Dick's short story "We Can Remember It for you Wholesale". Tremendous cinematic stuff of the huddled radiation-mutant eccentrics living in constant sight and sound of the huge revolving fan bringing costly air to their enclave. On a more joyous note, we have Douglas Adams offering us Eccentrica Gallumbits, the triple-breasted whore of Eroticon Six. <br /><br />After a ferry passage (one and a half hours to go 9 miles) and a day's hard driving through the loveliest part of Scotland mr mike - not the CentralBelt where you did your scary business trips, I'm still - still!- in fucking Scotland. Dundee, actually, with another massive drive ahead.mrs ishmaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10741582990162639142021-10-17T20:19:22.685+01:002021-10-17T20:19:22.685+01:00Pedantic point of order, mr mike - the 3-tits lass...Pedantic point of order, mr mike - the 3-tits lass may have been from Total Recall. Star Yawns was family friendly. <br /><br />stanislav's hoped-for hospital-horror demise of Spunky Bill almost came to pass just now, apparently. Urinary tract sepsis. The rest writes itself.<br /><br />cheers<br /><br />v./<br /><br />(google, mr mongoose, claims Largs is "a popular seaside resort". Are they pulling our leg?)<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-70213930780768893672021-10-17T19:08:03.170+01:002021-10-17T19:08:03.170+01:00Mr mongoose: the nation, and the West in general, ...Mr mongoose: the nation, and the West in general, will be beggared long before its beggared by the COP26 business. China isn't going so what is the point?Mikenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-10713111052357910722021-10-17T15:22:38.248+01:002021-10-17T15:22:38.248+01:00I was once in Largs, mr mike, on a dark and wet Fe...I was once in Largs, mr mike, on a dark and wet February night. Got there after dark, left there before the sun was up. Little, dark, stone sheds on either side of the road. Doubtless populated by mr i's ginger mutants going about their dastardly business.<br /><br />The COP26 business is going to be a trial. Quite why we are trying to beggar the nation as quickly as we can is beyond me.mongoosenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6065998731267025499.post-26149508614895980982021-10-17T04:09:15.860+01:002021-10-17T04:09:15.860+01:00Bon voyage, Mrs I. Make sure to keep us posted. I...Bon voyage, Mrs I. Make sure to keep us posted. Its a regret I have that I never, and never will (as I have forsworn to never set foot in the UK again), explored Jockland - apart from long ago business trips to Edinburgh, and an overnight stay in Glasgow and a close encounter with extra-terrestrials in a pub. Not quite as scary as an encounter in a Liverpool pub where the clientele were like extras from Mad Max, or that Star Wars movies where the babe had 3 tits. Other than that, and I seldom wish my fellows ill will, I look forward to reading Gordon Snot's obituary in the Filth-o-graph. It will be a hard one to write - to strike the balance between civility and the fact (to use one of Mr I's sobriquets) that the man was a cunt. I might even subscribe to the Filth-o-graph so I can post my last comment.Mikenoreply@blogger.com