Friday, 24 April 2020

EVENSONG. LENNY, BRUCE NOT HENRY. . Bob Dylan-Lenny Bruce ( Live)

This is from mr ishmael's notebook of June 2014. You might like it, especially those old friends of the Ishmael family namechecked here. 

This is from decades ago, back when Bob Dylan at least had a stab at doing what he's known for.


Lenny Bruce is dead But his ghost lived on and on Never did get any Golden Globe award Never made it to Synanon He was an outlaw, that's for sure More of an outlaw than you ever were Lenny Bruce is gone But his spirit's living on and on Maybe he had some problems Maybe some things that he couldn't work out But he sure was funny and he sure told the truth And he knew what he was talking about Never robbed any churches Nor cut off any babies heads He just took the folks in high places And he shined a light in their beds He's on some other shore He didn't wanna live anymore Lenny Bruce is dead But he didn't commit any crime He just had the insight To rip off the lid before its time I rode with him in a taxi once Only for a mile and a half Seemed like it took a couple of months Lenny Bruce moved on And like the ones that killed him, gone They said that he was sick 'Cause he didn't play by the rules He just showed the wise men of his day To be nothing more than fools They stamped him and they labeled him Like they do with pants and shirts He fought a war on a battlefield Where every victory hurts Lenny Bruce was bad
He was the brother that you never had

 Back when Bob Dylan was something special he had a song which included the lines:
...and here I sit, so patiently,
waiting to find out what price
 you haveta pay to get out of
going through all these things twice.
For years mr mongoose and I have traded obscure Dylan lines and phrases all across these telegraphs and he will know; mr verge, the house filthster will know, ms lilith, sad-eyed lady of the wetlands will know, mr pt barnum, mr mothers ruin, mr young anglo-Irish catholic, mrs narcolept on her cemetery walks, with her kitchen filled with motorcycle parts;  mrs raft, tugging on reality's mooring line -

I am none of these names you call me.

I don't come here to be praised; a Zen-Presbyterian-Marxist, it makes me uneasy,  I am unaccustomed to it and my  young friend, stanislav, never responded to it - is fucking plumber, not in fucking showbiz with arsebandit and fucking babyfucker,  not want fucking BAFTA - but then he seldom responded to anything,  there would be yards and yards of stan's the man stuff, stan for prime minister, stan made me laugh so much my wife had to call a fucking ambulance.  And there would  be other stuff, serious, lit-crit analyses by serious lit-crit people.  I am not sure that I can speak FOR stanislav but I do know that  he only existed within that brief, noisy milieu,  and was unable, therefore, to respond to extant, corporeal third parties,  woulda been stupid, really, wouldn't it, like talking to a character in a book.  stanislav's name was never capitalised because he wasn't a proper noun, not a proper person  just a visiting voice but pay no heed, that's just me being  the  apostrophe jihadist whom I normally condemn,  the empty headed. nit-picking, cheese-paring, hair-splitting grammacist-policeperson of cyberspace;  never managed to stamp him out, he is alive and well, all over the place, smug and stupid, holding Ruin's jacket for him.  Inasmuch as he said anything outside of his missionary-noir rants he did try to raise the tone, reproving commenters for their discourtesies one to the other - even if bloke is cunt, is best call him mr cunt, is only fucking polite, proper english way, best is to play ball and not bloke.  It surprised me just how quickly people did start pre-fixing the most unlikely tags with a Mr or, rarely, a Mrs.

I don't moderate, I don't edit, I don't link, I don't advertise and in five years I would be surprised if I had deleted one comment per year; I don't like to do it, it is against my instincts,  I especially don't like and try not to do it in the wee small hours for fear it might add to another's, what, discomfort, loneliness, whatever it is which fuels the lonesome, insomniac obsession to which I  sometimes fall victim.

The fingerbells of the Incredible String Band jingle through these lines, through my life;  here and there, a little, joyous ping of punctuation, a note of completion, affirming a sentence here, a paragraph there.

Thursday, 23 April 2020

Fucking Rubbish

    Good boardig, dis is Start de Week, wid me, Belbin Bagg de dinking woman's Dodald Trump. As a successful playride, poed and philosopher, myself, I joined the rest of the world of letters in mourding de death of a great feminist writer. And wid me in de studio is Englad's answer to William Burroughs.  Burroughs wrode inderesding books, unlike my guest....Oh, did I bention dat I went to grammar school?  And am now in de House of Lords?
    Will Self, welcome to Sdard de Week, and how would you summarise for our listeners the career of Jackie Collins,  what would you say, were her books aboud ?
    They were about fucking, Melvyn, or should I call you your Lordship?
    Did you say fucking? On de BBC?  You can't just say fucking...

    I only said it.  I didn't fucking do it......

    No, bud you can'd jusd come out and say fucking, not on the fucking BBC;  my producer will dink dat I have daken leave ob my fucking senses.
     
    Oh, do piss off Melvyn.  Fucking and shopping, that's what she wrote about;  rich and famous people fucking and shopping.  Now, just fucking accept that or I'll  get  all lugubrious on your arse,  start speaking in fucking tongues, using words I only just read half an hour ago - sitting on the loo, squeaking with constipation- in a dictionary of never-used words.
Unlike some, mrs ishmael for instance, I have an almost infinite capacity for reading, watching and listening to absolute rubbish;  where mrs ishmael would say, Oh, for fucks sake, I  can't be bothered with this rubbish, I will marvel, all-ears and goggle-eyed at how bad stuff can be, doesn't matter, Channel Four News, Breakfast TeeVee;  I can read all the newspapers, so bad, these days that their very wretchedness is a miracle of something;  the Mail, the Filth-O-Graph and especially the Sun, I don't know how anyone can be remotely associated with them, other than by reading them, wonderingly.  There are limits, I have seen a couple of moments of Mr Jeremy Kyle's Humiliation programme and I am sure that any more would leave me no choice but to hunt him down and kill him.
There is a show in which a little, bald monkey-man  pursues defaulting builders,  cowboys as he calls them, aspirating and glottal-stoppingly threatening to threaten them just as soon as he can find 'em but actually just phoning them up. 


 Monkey-man's mission is to restore peace and equilibrium to the lives of some fucking idiots who have allowed themselves to be ripped-off by some other fucking idiots;  he never tackles the government or the cops or the judges, in whom the rip-off is ingrained but some dork in a Transit, called Wayne or Darren, he'll follow them, well,  to the ends of the road.  Nor, incidentally, does he tackle the biggest cowboy builders in the country, those funding their Big Fat Gipsy Weddings out of Granny's badly tarmacked drive.
I never allowed the children to watch EastEnders.
But why not?
Because it's bad for you.
How come, how come it's bad for us?
Well, it completely misrepresents the way that ordinary people live their lives, it's hysterical, cruel, nasty and violent.

'Sjust a bitta fun.
It's mean and vicious and deeply unpleasant and you're not watching it.
But why not?
B-I-S-S.
B-I-S-S ?
Because I said so.

And they never did watch it, not at home, anyway, although the moment they moved-out - temporarily - I am sure they would have been immersed in EastEnders and much worse. No matter, at least they knew that some people rejected what many lapped-up.
It was the same with the 'papers, no Murdoch or similar filth ever came into the house.
But everybody reads the Sun.
No, everybody doesn't read the Sun.

The 'phone went the other morning.

Hello, can I speak to Ishmael Smith, or to Mrs Ishmael....?

Who the fuck are you?

Sorry, what?

I said,  who the fuck are you? Who-the-fuck-are-you?

Well....well...I'm Marcus....from BT....and I'm phoning from BT, just to.....

Can you write, Marcus?

Can I what ? 

Do you know how to write, words, do you know how to  write?

(sounding annoyed) A course I can write.....

Well, then, write to me. Click.

I don't know how this happened,  that people are employed to telephone you out of the blue and try to get money from you and just expect that you'll listen to them.

I used to feel sorry for the poor bastards making the calls, it's not their idea, they're just reading from a script but then I thought Fuck 'em, if that's the only job they can get, being impertinent and ill-mannered, relying on people's innate good manners and patience, in order to waste their time or defraud them or both;  they'd be better-off robbing or burgling, doing proper crime. And these are  the ones acting just about within the law. When Jason 'phones me from Karachi telling me it's about my computer and that he's from Microsoft, he is straighforwardly trying to rob me, so call me racist if you like but what I say to the bloke pretending to be Jason is, Ah, Jason, was that your mother I saw on the Internet, last night, having sex with a pig?  You know it was, it was your mother fucking a pig. I must say she seemed to be enjoying it....Jason doesn't like that and finds himself departing from his script, somewhat. Sometimes I talk to them about prison. Prison, Jason, I say, in your country, it's not very nice is it? And you won't like it. But the police in my country are very angry about you pretending to be from Microsoft and they're working with the police in your country to catch you and put you in prison. Click.

Ishmael essays:
Good Boardig                           drafted  25/09/15
Unlike Some, mrs ishmael        drafted 18/06/14
Eastenders                                drafted 19/05/16
The phone went                        drafted 8/05/16

Sunday, 19 April 2020

The Sunday Ishmael 19/04/2020

Oh, no, no, no, no, no!
So it turns out that Bo-Jo the Ho-Ho is no longer the Saviour of his Country. The beans have been spilled, the knives have been sharpened and little slices of Bo-Jo are on the Sunday lunch menu. He sleep-walked the country into disaster. Oh yes, he did. He had his photo taken with a dragon instead of a Cobra.
 Oh yes, he did. He caused the unnecessary deaths of thousands with all this sleep-walking. His Cabinet are too young, can't take decisions. But! Fear Not! There's a certain elder statesman, a former Prime Minister, with a nice new blue rinse, ready to spring forth and lead a new Govament of National Unity, just as mr ishmael predicted. 
 After all, he saved the global eckonomy, stupid, as he reminded Hard Talk's Stephen Sackur several times. And now he is going to make President Donald change his mind and give lots of money to the Who
 Former Prime Minister Blue Rinse said: "To deal with this locally in any country, we have got to act globally. If the World Health Organisation did not exist, it would have to be created" 
So that's all right, then. 

It is maybe a good time to remember mr ishmael about Snottie, back in September 2010:
She led him on  to the stage as though she was his carer, one of those useless parasites whom we must discard or die, they, far more than the political establishment shitehawks, all doing a great job, they are the ones we must seek out and punish,  they, the low-waged, it's all their fault -  but she did, lead him by the hand and in a way she always has. Look, somebody halfway normal, and a woman, too, cares for Gordon Snot, maybe she'll teach him hankythings, Ah, bless, he's been too busy, you see, ruining everything, hearing his father's dreadful, sermonising voice in his head, telling him how clever he is, far too busy to wipe his nose on a hanky and not throw phones at young women or burn all the money and give the gold away but now he's married and that'll make him a much  better bullying fuckwit, nothing like a woman to bring out the best in a chap, Sarah-George will tell him that he's not really a stone mad, immature,  snot-eating lunatic up to his neck in bribery, corruption,  deceit and blackmail, it's all the others.  It's what carers do, calm and sedate and nourish the self-esteem of their client. Not much good, though, at winning elections.

Maybe if he'd gone for a floozy, it might have been different; imagine Gordon Brown coming out of Downing Street with a sexbomb, a pouting, lipsticked bimbo in spike heels,  somebody more like Sarkozy's Parisienne bicycle, wotsername, Carla, but worse, or better, depending on your point of view, somebody whose appearance just announced, in capital letters, that she was only good for fucking and what more could you want than that; some showbizzy harlot  and not some wretchedly worthy blue-stocking, Home Counties amazon, Hell-bent  upon rearing this mad old bastard's  spawn, fathered  - like most things about Snotty,  unnaturally,  late to the point of risk - one dead and one damaged and one ok so far,  but then great men like him - and he is great,  great with a greatness so complex that few can divine it -   are not bound by the customs and practices, the survival mechanisms not only of other men but even of Mother Nature herself, in his grotesque attempts to belatedly fuck his way into perceived normality of the heterosexual kind. Yes, I'm just like any other normal young parent - he never actually said it like that, he said parent of young children which inferred the same thing, the same normalcy - and we just like to do family things together, I don't really care about this prime ministering stuff. Although, of course, I never use them for political gain, my children, just all the time, constantly, without fail.  Did I tell you how much I love my two sons, John and wotsisname? Just as all you other young parents love your children. What a fucking wretch.  A floozy and no, definitely no kids, especially not the ones who die at birth or have serious illnesses;  and he might still be there, doing that sol-you-shuns thing. Gay men and wildly attractive women, see them everywhere, you do. That's the sort of fag-haggery which wins elections, not doleful, martyred Sarah and her dead daughter. Sarah didn't help le cause Brunoise, just made him look more like angry mildew than he already did,  a miserable sexual bouillabass, squared, nightmarish in appearance, nightmarish in outcome. 

It's not, en passant, just Gordon. Champagne Charlie Kennedy did just the same thing, scenting power, in the 2005 election, he thought he'd better normal himself up and he wed another stodgy, glamourless breeder,  to knock out some vote-winning sprog. And look what happened to him, all over the place, his life a mixture of vomit and stagey bluster.

We are not here, though,  to bury Kennedy but to rhapsodise, in tones of darkness and cruelty, scorn and ridicule, maybe one last time,  over this malformed,  ill reared, bad mannered, scrofulous freak. A grotesque apology for a man, even by the standards of contemporary politicians, Gordon Brown lost his ever presumed leadership of the Labour Party, fair, and it must be said, square, to the ghastly Tony Blair; the party voted overwhelmingly for Blair; the early indications having shown 36% in favour of Blair, just 9% for Brown , he had no option but to withdraw from the election.  Typically, though, of this horrible fucking bastard, growling and hectoring, he would not accept the verdict of the majority, demanding, a priori, of the feeble Blair that he guarantee to step aside, soon, so that the real leader, rejected, as he was by the party electorate but never mind that, could take over the job he felt was his destiny. Mad as a fucking hatter from the start of Ruin's parliamentary dominion, Brown was able to bully and blackmail all in his malevolent orbit, having colleagues - Harriet Soursister and Dame Frank Field - removed or sidelined, when they failed to  heed his threatening voice; establishing a separate Ministry of Leader in Waiting, in which he was able to withold from his prime minister, the First Lord of the Treasury, any and all information regarding budgetary matters. The useless popinjay, Blair, was generally too concerned with his world image to trouble Brown over much, happy playing Foreign Secretary to Brown's domestic prime minister. skymadeupnewsandfilth joked about this travesty of government, about this constitutional outrage, encouraging government by tittle-tattle, encouraging the Prudence of No More Boom And Bust's Ruinous posturing until it became a running national joke that the prime minister couldn't sack his chancellor, that the chancellor and neither the prime minister nor the cabinet decided government policy. And nobody cared, voted the same gang in to power three times.

Let the work of change begin, he gobbled, caring, dopey Sarah planted at his side, as he entered Downing Street, unelected; no more this and no more that, he grunted, as though the efforts of all others, the previous ten years, had been misguided and worthless, as though his empty coup set straight a history blighted by inconvenient reality; his stitching-up of the leadership was, at last, the true, magnificent result of the May 1997 general election. Let the work of change begin. Cunt.

She was big in BGLT, Gordon's Sarah, one of the Priding, one of the  bisexual, gay, lesbian and transgender thought police just looking for a harmless, old-fashioned normal to abuse, one of Ruin's bullyboys and girls, let loose on society to insist that sodomy and bondage are the very will of God, opposition to them the work of the New AntiChrist;  for a long time now I've been wondering why can't people just be queer like they used to be  and none of this bollocks?  Blokes in chaps, with their arses hanging-out, marching down the street, where are their heads at ?  I think it's awful and  I think most of this gang, Paddick and that ghastly ladyman, Jenny, at the LibDems staged conference are just old-fashioned fucking malcontents,  they should all,  men dressing as nuns, bearded ladies with Adam's Apples and dykes in brogues, just join the Old Bill and beat-up on ordinary people officially.  And as for transgender surgery which the LibDems want made available on demand, what on Earth is all that about if its not malcontentism running riot through Ruin's consulting rooms, why don't the doctors just tell them to fuck off ?

I mean, if I went into psycho-sexual counselling and said Look, Doc, can you fix it for me to have two cocks, and right big ones, one at the front and one round the back, only nowhere near the wotsaname thing, the anus, above, far enough above it so's a nice pair of balls can hang down and not get all covered in poo-poo, you know, and not get all crushed-up when I sit down, maybe cut out a new pocket or something,  you surgeons are clever......?  Say that again, Mr Ishmael, you want me to transplant an extra cock and balls onto your arse...is that it...? Yes, Doc, I'm serious., You see I'm actually a bi-phallic man trapped in a uni-phallic existence, and I am so unhappy, I've been unhappy since I first started having erections and noticing there was only one of them....There's only supposed to be one of them, Mr Ishmael.... But if a bloke is born a bloke and wants to be a woman, claims he's been, wotsaname, wrongly assigned, then you have no problem cutting his balls out and shoving his scrotum up inside like a vagina  and reducing his John Thomas to clitoris-size? That's what you do, isn't it?  It is fucking grotesque and you all oughta be up before the BMA, not that they're any good for fuck all,  the mentors of Harold Shipman. But the police, certainly, they should be talking to the surgeons mutilating folk like that, they should all be banged up.  It's almost a byword here, that scrotum sanding story, but  for newcomers, it was in England, about fifteen-twenty years ago,  there was a group of blokes met up regularly and applied Black and Decker sanders to each others Crown Jewels. The judge ruled it illegal, even among consenting blokes. You're not doing any of that shit in my jurisdiction, he said, no matter how much you like it, and banged the freaks up for a few months.  They were also nailing each others' foreskins to the workbench.  Seems relatively harmless, compared to that ladyman Sunday Roast carve-up shit.   Take a perfectly good set of meat and potatoes, hack it to bits, turn it inside out and shove it up inside where it hadn't ever oughta be......That's different...How is it different, Doc, it's worse than me wanting two cocks;  I wanna stay a man, for fucks sake, I just wanna have two cocks so's I can, y'know, so's I can entertain two ladies at the same time.  Twice the fun. And how would that BLGT gang react if they couldn't get in to have their balls scooped out of their scrotums, like they were bits of melon, or Stilton cheese,  the mad fucking bastards,  because the place was full up of normal heterosexual geezers  having penile and testicular enhancement surgery?  The size twelve stilleto'd be on the other foot then and no fucking mistake. Sarah-George Brown'd be up in fucking arms. See what Brian Paddick has to say about that, the silly LibDem fucker. Invented for the likes of Paddick, the LibDems. Married, now,  to a Norwegian bloke he is.  But only in Norway. Go down a bomb that will, with the voters of London.

Meanwhile, back in before-before, mr ishmael had a few things to say about those that do, or have, or want to, rule o'er us - and they haven't gone away:

DOWN ON TOPHAT  FARM
  • I   did not have sexual relations with that woman, I mean pig
  •  and lessbeclear  about this:
  • Tory politicians would never stoop to putting their right honourable members in pigs, not while there are children's homes full of filthy little sluts just gagging for it.
  • Mrs Thatcher would never have stood for that and nor shall I.
  • And while we're here, I never smoked cannabis at Oxford with James Delingpole, how could I, I am the prime minister.
  • And fucking a pig, anyway, is better than fucking a dog, like Mr Corbyn did.
  • At least the pig was white-ish, if there had have been a pig, which clearly there wasn't.
  • That's  enough pig stories.
  • Damaged my reputation?
  • Yes, and that's why I must 

     
    take off my jacket 


    roll up my sleeves, 
    the way a bricklayer does, right up,
    above my elbows


     and stroll around making emphatic and dramatically conclusive gestures, like that chap in the theatre, very much as I am, here, today, with you,  in the theatre, Hamlet, was that him, yes,  I'm  a bit like him, but not mad, obviously. 


    To be in Europe or not to be in Europe

    and even now, that is the question. And we  really do face a Dickhead of Uncertainty.......wossat, not a dickhead? A decade? You sure? But he is a dickhead, my dear friend, Mr Mayor, he is a dickhead, my oldest friend, whom..... is it whom? Whoever? Yes, that, my old friend that......that's the word I was searching for, Mr Mayor, my oldest  friend that is being a dickhead. I mean, look, lessbeclear, as it says in the Bible, all the world's  a page......
    Wot? All the world's a stage?
    Alright, a stage it is.  So fucking what, as President Trousers always says when asked about a crime. 


    A stage, a page, what difference does it make?
    I'm not Stewart Lee, you know,


     being quizzed - in a cutaway - by his own full-time employed heckler, about why he did what he did and how the recording of what he did, viewed carefully, with an exhaustive debate, helps contextualise his oeuvre, for all those who aren't him.
    And about how people think he does the same thing night after night, year after year but there's actually very subtle differences in each performance, but which only he can see.  Things like, well, one night he might walk from left to right but another night he might walk right to left, or he might not, he might just stand still. And only he knows about this. Because he watches all his shows over and over again. Because he truly loves himself in a way the audience can't, even though they think they can. Another Oxbridge Wanker, masturbating up his own arse.
    Christ, if you think the Oscars are bad you should watch two minutes of Stewart Lee.



    I mean, he's only telling fucking jokes, isn't he, exaaggerating things for effect, like what I'm doing, just now.   Should Stewart Lee  be in the Tory party? Fucked if I know, better ask them. Nothing to do with me.


    and we're all just reading our lines on it, the stage, or the page, and mine are the best.

    But no, lessbeabsolutelyclear, once and for all, I have the greatest regard both personally and wotsaname, politically, for my old friend Boris Cunt, but he really is a dickhead.  Did you know for instance, that he went to a posh school, Boris,


    The young Dave  at Eton.

    which his parents paid for, that he went to Oxford, which his parents paid for, that he was a prominent member of a drunken yahoo spiv vandals' club, 

    A portrait of the pigfucker as a young man.

    whose rampaging criminal damage sprees  his parents paid for,  that he's never had a proper job in his life  but wants to be prime minister? 

    Well, I think you'll agree with me that a dickhead like that is simply not to be believed when it comes to Europe, or anything else for that matter, and that's why he's running London for the Tories, not my party, of course, the Tories, but never mind. And why he's in my cabinet, but not really in it, just drawing the salary, quite proply too, in my view.

    But I wanna talk about Michael Spit, Michael is also my oldest friend but lessbeclear, he fucked-up big time at Education and had to be put in charge of the govamental paper clips, no, no, a crucial task, in the cupboard, there, every day, checking the new supplies of paperclips inwards against the invoices and delivery notes and all that terribly important admin stuff and lessbefair some of you here will be engaged in highly responsible admin tasks and will know the true wotsaname of a properly regulated supply of paperclips to your colleagues, and Michael was making sure that no govament department received more than its fair share of paper clips, yes, and rubber bands, too, might not sound very important but it is truly vital to the smooth running of govament - I nearly said Gove-a-ment, there, Duh! -  that economies which can be made are made and continue to be made. A bit like public services really,  the more we economise by means of efficiency, the more we see that we don't, achelly, need them at all, most of them can be done, quite proply in my view, by volunteers.  I mean, it's not rocket science, is it,  the sooner we stop wasting money on public services which, quite frankly, people can do for themselves and jolly well should; the sooner we can transfer more money to the truly deserving, the hedge fund managers, the financiers  and the ontrapanooers, who, let's face it, some of who/whom/them/that  are actually having to pay  tax, not only on their basic income, like they were teachers or policemen, but also on the bonuses they receive for not doing their jobs proply in the first place,  the bigger their failure and incompetence, the bigger their bonuses, surely it's not right that they/he/she/whomever should be further burdened by paying tax, like  poor people do.

    And talking about poor people, that brings me to the question of Northern.
    Up in Northern, why shouldn't ex miners and ex-steel workers and those jolly decent chaps who grow Eccles Cakes in their allotments, why shouldn't they become hedge fund managers, why shouldn't they run their own thinktanks. People from Northern, they're as good as anybody who didn't go to Eton.
    And lessbeclear, if we vote to leave Europe, despite the deal I managed to strike  making hugely, absolutely no difference whatsoever  to our relationship vis a vis the frogs and the dagoes and the krauts, all of whom, let me be perfectly clear,  I despise and mistrust; if we do decide to leave, forcing another referendum, and another one, until we quite proply decide to stay, then the people of Northern will suffer a great deal.  First of all, since Mr Osborne and myself will have left office there will be no more Northern Powerhouse for a start.  And they won't even be able to wave from a distance as the HS2 train hurtles past, empty. I say empty becuase nobody will want to go there, to Northern,  but the trains will still have to run.  Otherwise the people who very bravely took the risk of funding this magnificent, and pioneeringly ridiculous nonsense project, well, the Bank of England having given them billions of pounds of free money, have to, quite proply, invest it in projects which, however totally fucking insane they are, have to make a profit, on top of the free money in the first place and being a responsible govament, we must guarantee the profit, this, after all is what Capitalism is all about, nobody who went to the right school facing any risk..

    ..And then there's all the dead children. I mean, I had one, a dead childen, so I know exactly how hard it would be  to lose all your children just because you didn't vote to stay in Europe. And lessbeunder no wotsanames, less be under no infusions with this, all your children will die, especially the children from Northern;  they'll all be dead almost before the votes're counted. Oh fuck, now what is it? What's wrong with infusions? Well, these fucking dummies, standing around in this factory or whatever it is, they don't know the difference between infusion and inclusion.  Whaddayamean it's fucking neither of them?  It has to be one of them.  People are either under an illusion or under an  inclusion.  Whaddayamean, An, An fucking who, who the fuck is An?  Is she a DeadBaby-Wanting Outer. Sounds like one, An of the Dead Babies? Y'know, sometimes I wonder if it was such a good idea to put the family jewels in the pig's gob, after all.

    And it isn't just me/I/myself. Other brilliant minds think we face a Dickhead of Uncertainty. Who? Well, whaddayamen Who? Do you mean whom, whom else, apart from me;  do you mean whomever, whoever, whosesosomeever?  They are very tricky questions these, entymologically speaking. What? What fucking insects?  What or whom does insects have to do with this? Etymology? That's what I said, entymology, I said entymology, the study of word things. No, not grammar, I didn't go to a grammar school, I went to Eton. I think you'll find that entymology is the study of words.  No, it's fuck all to do with insects. Well, look, lessbeclear, maybe you spell entymology without an n, maybe you're from Northern, and fuck knows how they do spelling up there - it is up, isn't it, Northern? But under this govament it is spelt with an n, and means the study of words; insectology, that's the word you're looking for , that's the study of  insects, obviously.

    Well, speaking as the last great Tory chancellor, I would simply say that my protege, David Cameron, is talking like a cunt.


    But lessbeclear, when it comes to us facing a Dickhead of Uncertainty,  people who become billionaires by evading tax and who now live abroad, these are the kind of people to which or whom we should all listen very closely, and do as they advise. I mean, the counsels of organised crime, well, we should do as they tell us.

    And let Stanislav have the last word:

    Is fucking rubbish, bastard BBC and good for fuck all. stanislav lying in bed is and have scratch at arse, maybe, and fucking radio alarm coming on is everyday with some bastard up early from swimming in thinktank - Every bastard harder must work, every bastard more tax must pay and less benfit have, is only way, work until fucking drop and get fuck all, is only way, everybody agreed is.  Every fucking morning same shit is.


    Ishmael essays:
     
    She led him                      drafted  27/09/10
    Is Fucking Rubbish          drafted 20/10/10
    TopHatters                       drafted 21/09/15
    Dickhead of Uncertainty  drafted 7/03/2016
     


Friday, 17 April 2020

Twatt

Over on A Darkie? In the  Bushes? messrs Bungalow Bill and Mike have been having some linguistic fun. I thought you might like this:
Honest, not invent, a real place. Furthermore, it is also a surname here, so some unfortunate individuals go through life bearing the name Twatt. My dictionary tells me:
"The settlement name originates from the Old Norse þveit, meaning 'small parcel of land'. The name Twatt is similar to the common English expletive " Twat," (a vulgar word for vulva and also an insulting term meaning a weak or contemptible individual). For this reason, Twatt remains a source of amusement to people from outside the parish."
mrs ishmael

Wednesday, 15 April 2020

A Darkie? In the Bushes?

From Mr Ishmael's drafts from September 2015.


A darkie? In the bushes?


I daresay you're right, your worship, I'll fetch your twelve-bore.







And now some Beethoven, an 'oo doesn't like a bit of Beethoven?  Y'know, when I were a little lad, in Barnsley, preparin' fer me career as a television gardening polymath and novelist, I used to walk around our garden singin' Beet'oven's 'Allelulia Chorus at the top  of me little lungs, and now, 'ere I am, in the Royal Albert Hall, sharing what I know with others less educated than what I am.


Good morning and welcome to Sky Sunrise, with me, Mrs Holmeses wee son, Eamon, skymadeupnewsandfilth's answer to Alan Titmarsh, the housewives' favourite gardener - boyish and cheeky and just a wee bit dangerous, in a Pringle pullover kind of way. Although you won't catch me introducing the Proms, or crawling up Prince Brian's arse;  Eurovision, now, or Strictly, that's more my style.  More wee Alan's, too, if only somebody had a told the wee man. And with me this morning, around the news desk, to discuss the big stories that you care about, are Sally Tits and Jayne Tits. But first, the business news with our business editor, Imogen Tits, that's after this break.  Make sure and see that yous don't go away, now........


Welcome back and the big story is that skymadeupnewsandfilth can  exclusively reveal that Jerry or Jeremy as he insists on calling himself Corbyn may have  agreed to be the support act for Madonna.  That's right, viewers, you heard it here first.  This is the significant official rumour that  the left-wing, anti-monarchist, terrorist-supporting leader of the Labour party, who couldn't even - and I had trouble believing this myself, so I did - who couldn't even be bothered even to mouth the words of our National Anthem, and  this at a memorial service for those who gave their lives for him, yes, that Jeremy Corbyn,  the one who'd give all your pensions to his paymasters in Russia, that Jeremy Corbyn is to open for the geriatric Princess of PornoPop when she appears at London's O2, later this year.


Rebel Heart, Madge's tour is called, so it is,  and she could have told Sky's entertainment  correspondent, Rosie Tits,   that since she and JC are both rebels and both in their sixties that it'd be really cool if they appear together and maybe adopt a baby or two, from, like Africa or Brazil, wherever. 

In other news, British car manufacturers are warning that Corbyn as prime minister could destroy thousands of car industry jobs , with him being a bicyclist and everything.

Yes, Eamonn, and this just in from the National Federation of Master Butchers, Slaughtermen and Offal Processors:  Corbyn A Menace To British Way Of Life. 



Seems, Eamonn, that butchers and slaughtermen are warning that while they think it's OK for a number of people to be vegetarian, those considering it in future should be imprisoned for long periods.  Here's their chairman, It's unBritish, vegetarianism, after all.  how would we have won the war against the Nazis if the British working man hadna had his Roast Beef'n'Yorkshire for his dinner every day.   I mean, you can't fight a flippin' war on lentils, can you?
That was Morris RedFace, there,  of Butchers Against Corbyn.

Sunday, 12 April 2020

The Easter Sunday Ishmael 12/04/2020

Mr Ishmael fails to get a test drive 
In the Spring I went into Harry Fairbairn BMW, in Inverness.  I looked at an X1, a small what they call SUV and at a 3 Series Touring, that's what they call an estate car, I don't know why, you can tour in any car, can't you, but you can only carry shitloads of stuff in an estate car, or a van;  I might want a van one of the days but I can and do hire them for fifty quid a day and BMW don't make vans, not yet, anyway; so, as far as I'm concerned, they should call the 3 Series Touring a 3 Series Estate car, shouldn't they, because that's what it fucking is.  I said  I'd be back in August for a test drive in the touring estate car and the SUV car.  I booked the tests by 'phone, last Monday, for the coming Friday.

It was like entering a cathedral of glass and steel and rubber, the premises preposterously clean, the cars just unrealistically shiny, lit by a constellation of those tiny wee lights;  you got the feeling that if you ever took one of these vehicles outside you'd be committing an act of unpardonable vandalism;  they gleamed and shimmered like a Crusader's armour; stood beside them, mere humans looked like garbage, even the sales executives in shiny black suits;  I looked like what I am, an islander, who lives on a windy shore, down a long, sometimes muddy lane and who has  forgotten - or doesn't give a fuck about - how to dress for the city, especially the BMW main dealership end of the city.  

I didn't worry too much about that, I had been in earlier this year, I had 'phoned to arrange the test drives and I was unlikely to have travelled a hundred and thirty miles - got on a boat and everything - just to get a free ride in a new car with a stupid name. I already have a new car, not a BMW new car but a Volvo new car.  I kinda hoped they'd take me half-way seriously, even being without a shrunken suit, a shiny head and a snuffler's  beard, yeah, and no portable 'phone.  Y'mean mobile 'phone, sir? No, I mean portable 'phone, your phone's not mobile, you are, your phone's portable.  Maybe it's no wonder sales persons don't take me seriously.  Not only do I not have one, myself, which must soon become a crime, but I - not always, sometimes I let it go -   start redefining what it is that they think they understand with such an expert understanding. It's dreadful what this babyshit 'phone rubbish has done to the world.  I mean, just take Richard Sharpe, a few years ago he had been a full colonel in Wellington's army, had countless commendations for gallantry, had enriched himself and his comrades from the spoils of war, had captured one of Napoleon's regimental eagles, for God's sake, and now, here he is, flogging what they call packages for O2, whatever that is, something to do with portable 'phones.

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Another Hari Seldon moment
TALKIN' WORLD WAR THREE BLUES

Well, lessbeclear, I'm not saying that there will be war, just that it's a hundred-to-one certainty. And that's on top of all the babies dying, despite the very excellent NHS - which we are quite busy giving away to anyone abroad who wants it - doing what it can to save them. What? Oh, they'll die you see, as an inevitable consequence of Boris the BabyKiller telling lies about me. That's the sort of thing that happens because people disobey their sovereign Lords. And because of us leaving Europe, not that Europe will allow us to leave, but if we were to leave, all the babies would die. Not a lot of people know that it is only due to our membership of the Common Market that so many babies survive.

And on top of all the babies dying from the Brexit Plague there will be total unemployment, that's right, no jobs for anyone, apart, of course, for those of us in govament.

And there'll likely be no food. Not many people know that every bite we eat comes to us from Europe. And quite frankly if we leave Europe, not that they'll let us leave, but if we do, they'll simply not want to send us any free food, as they do now

So there it is, War, Plague, Famine and wossaname, what's the other thing, yes Clint Eastwood on a Pale Horse, killing every bastard.  That's it, the Four Horsemen of the Apprenticeships.

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DIABETES AND SHIT

They say in the East, mr dick, that when a man prefers being asleep to being awake 'tis time he were dead. Most of my life I have begrudged sleep, always worried about missing something, always, in Maestro Thompson's words, Watching the Dark,somebody has to, and it's what I do here, mostly, watch the dark, identify the shadows in the corner. 

Recently, though,  been rocking my soul in the bosom of Morpheus, not his product, just the idea of him.  I don't think I have slept completely for decades;  I never go througn Sleep's dark and silent gate into unconsciousness, I am always conscious that I'm not fully asleep, that I'm half-awake.  Whatever it is I have recently found myself, say, looking at an empty coffee cup for hours and hours, thinking, I really must get up and take that to the kitchen, or looking at the laptop on my desk, thinking, I just have to walk over there, sit in that old chair and look at the blog, I'll do it in a minute, maybe tomorrow, maybe at the week-end, maybe next week, well, it's nearly next month, I'll do it then.

Maestro Cooder sings......It's a slo-o-ow consumption, killing me by degrees, and  one  of the old blind Mississippi blues boys sang.....well, they went for the doctor, an' he said, soft an' low, y'know he might get better, but he'll never be well no mo'. I think that's about the strength of it, might - well, I do - get better but I'll never be well no more.  That's OK, none of us will be better than we have been.

I used to feel quite guilty about my thirty years diabetes. It's not any of my fault, I have never taken sugar, I was always slim and active;  I think it was just in my mother's family.  Even so, I have thought about the costs to the NHS and I often buy stuff myself, from online medical suppliers - meters, testers, dressings, instruments, antiseptics. At least I did until just recently, when there was a slew of tranny-sensitive shows on TeeVee, Derek, a very ugly man and an even uglier woman having a couple of years pre-op counselling and medication and then eight or ten surgical procedures and then a lifetime of counselling and aftercare and then, no doubt, an opportunity to reverse the whole ghastly business if, as he will be, he is even more fucked-up than he was before. And so I thought Fuck this shit, what am I doing spending a hundred quid on a blood pressure meter?  I'm just gonna go down the surgery and screech at them that I must have whatever I want, at someone else's expense;  I can spend the hundred pounds on make-up and false nails. 
And from Huw Welshman, in the Newsroom:

 

Good Evening, Viewers and welcome to the 6 o'clock news from the BBC with me, Huw Welshman, your half- a- million- pound a year reader-out-loud. Now to the News Proper. And this is a statement from a Labour Shadow-Minister that anyone who says they are a Tranny is a Tranny. There can be no doubt about this, look you, isn't it, yes. Well, I don't know about you, Viewers, but some of us might have a different view. There was that story, wasn't there, which we covered a little while ago about the Welsh Rugby player. He was a bumholer, this chap. Hard not to be, I suppose, when you are down there in the scrum, all those sweaty male bottoms, all that pushing and shoving, all those muscles, 'sno wonder is it, look you, isn't it that a bit of bumholing is going to go on in the showers afterwards, soaping down and singing Men of Harlech. This bloke, anyway, he made no bones about being a bumholer. He'd come out, isn't it, even told his parents; everybody and his dog knew that bumholing was his thing. He was Wales' most favourite bumholer and the toast of the nation. But what had got his goat was that the Sun newspaper had gone to his parents asking questions, breaching his privacy, look you.  
And before we continue tonight's news, we have a text from a Mr. Ishmael, who is a little bit angry at one of yesterday's headlines in which we said that some thick Ulster lorry driver had caused the deaths of 39 Vietnamese, stowed away in the back of a lorry. Mr. Ishmael says that surely these people caused their own deaths. They embarked on a criminal enterprise attempting to force their way into a country wherein they had no right of entry and once there to take advantage of that country's services and infrastructure. Who did they think was transporting them? Was it the International Red Cross or was it a gang of criminals? Mr. Ishmael points out that each of these dead Vietnamese had paid $30,000 (US) before embarking on their criminal conveyances. Now, viewers, $30,000 is fuck all to me, or, indeed, anyone working at the BBC, but, if we consider that there were nearly 40 of these people and that they therefore spent approaching a million dollars on this criminal enterprise, you have to ask, don't you, isn't it, what they could have done to improve things in their own country with that money? A Workers' Co-operative or a new political party? Instead, they gave this money to criminals not just to take them to another country illegally, but to one which is probably the furthest away from their origin. They must have known that this was extremely hazardous and yet were confident that within a few minutes of arrival in the U.K. they could walk around smiling, availing themselves of our services on the grounds that they had come in U.K. to make better life. Mr. Ishmael makes the point that his grandparents, his parents and he himself have all fought, struggled and paid vast amounts of tax in order to create and fund those very services which this lorry-load of Vietnamese people had come to steal. He is sure that the gang of people-traffickers are a bad lot. He is also sure that it would not be their intent to slaughter their well-paying customers, such a thing being bad for business and evidently presenting a huge risk of imprisonment. Perhaps the correct sentencing in this matter should mirror whatever sentence, if any, is passed upon those, if any, found culpable of the massacre in Grenfell Tower, and, given the numbers involved, those partly responsible for the deaths of the Vietnamse should receive half the sentence of those convicted of killing the residents of Grenfell Tower, a company which should of course include London Mayors Sadiq, Johnson and Livingston; successive Chancellors of the Exchequer who have turned the London property market into the world's biggest money-laundering centre as well as Fire Chief Danny and her Merry Men, all of whom advised the Grenfell Tower residents against escaping their fiery and smokey deaths. He continues that unlike the very caring people at the BBC he doesn't actually give a flying fuck for the feelings of bereaved Vietnamese families or indeed the families of those immolated in the recent Pakistan train crash, drowned in the Air France and Air Malaya crashes or the families of thousands slaughtered in America's daily gun massacres. And that's before we even think about the starving millions in Africa and the dispossessed in Iraq, Syria and the Yemen. Mr. Ishmael thinks there's rather too much counterfeit concern for grieving families all over the world, a bogus and disagreeable sentiment from which he has opted-out. 

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COOKERY CORNER


Well, blimey, sometimes, y'know, I think I have the best job in the world. Y'know, for me, this is what it's all about. I got all these fish'n'chip shops, I'm on the telly, paid a fortune for  talking absolute bollocks and now the PBC've sent me here to the beautiful island of Lesbos - it's a strange sort of name for a place, isn't it,  more carpet-munching than olive squeezing, I shouldn't wonder, from the sound of it and I'm not kidding you, the waters're just full of refugees, you can literally grab 'em out of the water with your bare hands, dig a pit in the sand and roast 'em quickly  with some local rosemary and garlic, and oh, that Lesbos garlic, for all my gift with words, I simply cannot descriptify it. But no, for me this is what it's all about, roasting  other creatures  alive and eating them with a glass of local vino; it simply doesn't get any better than this.

See what I mean, readers, that prat's a fucking superstar, picks a handful of weeds, shoves 'em up a lobster's arse, roasts the poor thing alive, gets pissed, talks fucking nonsense and you pay him a fortune.  Public schoolboy, Stein the Fish, the fucking bastards're everywhere, that ugly, double-barreled hairy git, Saviour of the Fish, Hugh something, he's one, too.

Obituaries - 2017

On a Dead Politician


James Martin Pacelli McGuinness  23/05/1950 – 21/03/2017, an IRA leader and Deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland from May 2007 to January 2017. The Saville inquiry concluded McGuinness was "engaged in paramilitary activity" at the time of Bloody Sunday and had probably been armed with a Thompson submachine gun. In 1973, he was convicted by the  Special Criminal Court, following his arrest near a car containing 250 pounds (110 kg) of explosives and nearly 5,000 rounds of ammunition. In August 1993, The Cook Report alleged his continuing involvement in IRA activity, of attending an interrogation and of encouraging Frank Hegarty, an informer, to leave a safe house in England to return to Derry, where he was murdered. Experienced Troubles journalist Peter Taylor,  in his 2008 documentary Age of Terror,  alleged that McGuinness was the head of the IRA's Northern Command and had advance knowledge of the IRA's 1987 Enniskillen bombing, which left 11 civilians dead.





The Blair view of McGuinness is of course framed  through his own lens  of  counterfeit virtue.


Look, I simply say that, alright, Martin might have killed three thousand people, many of them members of my own armed forces, shot in the back from British houses on British streets;  OK, so what, we've all killed soldiers and civilians; we've all tortured people;  it's what you have to do, to bring Peace. He may have maimed and tortured thirty thousand; he may have cost the British taxpayer billions of pounds which could be spent on, well, anything really, but prefereably on nuclear weapons or MPs salaries,  but none of that matters, you see, what matters is that he stood shoulder-to-shoulder with me in bringing peace to Northern Ireland - even though he'd started the war in the first place - and to the wider world, where I had the honour and responsibility of starting the wars, or at least making  them possible. And if it wasn't for Martin I might never have felt the Hand of History around my neck, I mean on my shoulder. No it's simply not right to call my late friend, Martin, a loathsome, sadistic serial killer, a right Satan's cocksucker, a monster criminal excused investigation and trial by a cheap politician on the make;  he was much, much more than that. But as Lady Imelda and I often remark over the dinner table in our bunker, a profiteer is without honour in his own land.   That'll be three hundred thousand pounds please. Yes, for m'foundation.  Yes, the one like President Hillary's. Yes, funds from despots and tyrants to be used for subverting democracy.
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On a dead  Father of Rock and Roll


SAINT CHARLES COUNTY BLUES.

Charles Edward Anderson Berry 18/10/1926 – 18/03/2017, he refined and developed rhythm and blues with songs such as "Maybellene" (1955), "Roll Over Beethoven" (1956), "Rock and Roll Music" (1957) and "Johnny B. Goode" (1958).

If only Chuck Berry had been white, middle class and preferably Jewish; if he'd had a savvy manager who trained him to be Oh, so studiedly enigmatic and if he'd had an audience firmly up its own effete arse, he'd have had a Nobel Prize long ago.  I don't think that cheesy French ministers of culture fell over themselves trying  to give Chuck whatever it is, le companion des lettres et des artes, not with France being one of the most racist countries on Earth - wouldn't see them giving a gong to a nigger. And apart from that the Frogs don't do rock'n'roll, do they?

THE NAUGHTY STEP

A reminder from mr ishmael, commenting back in 2009

call me ishmael said...

There is no comment moderation here and it seems kind of brutish to delete posts arbitrarily and I have only felt like doing so once, last night, some impudent, fucked-up, graceless would-be rock critic came barging-in full of bile and phlegm, totally unnecesary and ill-mannered. He can stay here, on The Naughty Step, until he behaves himself.