Artist: Niel Young
Album: "harvest"
So as I slob on the sofa, glass of red wine in hand and bifta smouldering away in the ashtray... here's a couple of things that's got me mulling this sunday evening:
First up:
I don't read the Sunday Sport. Not out of prejudice, but because i'm not so keen on the content and/or editorial style of the paper...i'm not even sure if it is still published to be honest. Same applies to jeffrey archer novels. Don't like them. Don't like the way Archer writes, or indeed what he is generally writing about, so I don't read them.
Why would I put myself through that? Why?
It would serve only to add to the negative stresses in my life.
Hmm...I had a weird dream the night before last you see and its stuck with me since .
I was being forced (by myself scarily) to read the above paper and novels by archer... I was abroad somewhere... I was supposed to get british and regional current affairs from only those...very frustrating.....was/is an odd thing.
Anyway...
[sips wine and inhales fumes from cigarette]
Secondly;
Over the most excellent new year shindig at Dragondrop Centraal just after my first few marriage proposals had been 'passed on' by Little Miss Lovely and as I was tending to a 'man down' casualty of beer, I was posed an interesting situation:
"bear or lion?...in a fight...who'd win?"
I immediately went for the lion. King of beasts, top of foodchain and, lets be honest, a perfectly designed land killing thing. General consensus seemed to go with the bear though. I still don't agree. But there you go, we all have an opinion. The discussion went a little westward when The Minister suggested that Star Trek is better than Star Wars...silly thing to say with conviction. Just Silly, even if he is an ordained minister.
The subsequent 'mulling' has been on fights between things and characters. It should be balanced, there is no point putting Orvil the Duck in there with a shark for example...although that's a fight i'd pay to see...The Piano Man presented the situation of Rhino versus Land Rover Discovery the other night which is a fair fight I think...Head on and both at speed the Land Rover wins hands down obviously...but put the two in a cage with nothing but a couple of chairs and a broken bottle...? Well the rhino has it easily in round 2.
So then, following no rational process I thought of al pacino's scarface...versus al pacino's fella from th godfather... In a cage etc.
The winner was scarface.
so...and this can be This Week's New deCompetition if you like (as last weeks got quite a response)...:
Fight One:
Han solo versus indiana jones?
Fight Two:
Alan rickman's fella in Die Hard versus alan rickman's Sheriff of Nottingham in that otherwise silly robin hood film with the eternally wet kevin costner and that damned brian adams song... (i once got back together with a girlfriend because of that song's omnipresence... [shudders]...we had a lovely holiday together as a result though, so not all bad)
They are in The Cage and have only a couple of chairs and broken bottle each.
The winners from games 1&2 will face each other in the final on ..er..thursday.
Who wins these games here and why? Predict the final and the ultimate champion...
Email your answers using the link (just there on the right of your screen below the list of other people...it says 'mail me')
Winners will receive...ohh I dunno...an actual doodle on a real piece of paper. I might even colour it in for you.
Last week's winner is Anna! Well done etc, we'll do coffee sometime. :)
Tofu is runner up.well done etc.
But as you live in Elsewhere currently and don't drink coffee...you can have this voucher for a glass of water for when you return ;)
Monday looms.
Moo and I spent the weekend hibernating in our pygamas and our space. Oddly its these kinds of 'hanging/slobbing' moments of doing nothing that we both miss the most by being part-time dad/daughter. It becomes all to easy to be doing 'something' every time she is with me, before you realise what has happened two months will have passed since we just slobbed...which kinda only reinforces the part-time element. So we've had a lovely quality time of it.
I even managed to tidy Chambers (a little).
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