January 2006
6 posts
never play star trek wi' yer mammy!
one day, many many moons ago when we were wee, me and my brother roy were playing an exciting game of star trek. unconsciously echoing the nano-budgets of the TV programme itself, the drama was being played out through the medium of handwritten coded notes which - passed back and forward under the dining room door - represented communication between the orbiting enterprise and the doughty...
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never play star trek wi' yer mammy!
one day, many many moons ago when we were wee, me and my brother roy were playing an exciting game of star trek. unconsciously echoing the nano-budgets of the TV programme itself, the drama was being played out through the medium of handwritten coded notes which - passed back and forward under the dining room door - represented communication between the orbiting enterprise and the doughty...
top of the bilges
G-DRRK A-DRRK DRRK DRRK A DRRK!
G-DRRK A-DRRK DRRK DRRK A DRRK!*
hi pop pickers and welcome to this weeks edition of “top of the bilges”!
according to itunes [and its ability to keep track of how many times you’ve played a particular tune] these are my top ten ‘hip-wiggling’, ‘toe-tapping’ greats from 2005 - or at least from the beginning of august [when...
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top of the bilges
G-DRRK A-DRRK DRRK DRRK A DRRK! G-DRRK A-DRRK DRRK DRRK A DRRK!* hi pop pickers and welcome to this weeks edition of “top of the bilges”! according to itunes [and its ability to keep track of how many times you’ve played a particular tune] these are my top ten ‘hip-wiggling’, ‘toe-tapping’ greats from 2005 - or at least from the beginning of august [when...
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those new year resolutions in full
1. do more “good” stuff 2. do less “bad” stuff i find it doesn’t do to get too tied down with detail and definitions!
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let's parler bilge!
for as long as i can remember [about as far back as last wednesday], i’ve had a strange - one might almost say “manic” - compulsion to mess around with words; change their pronunciation, meaning etc. and generally fuck about wi’ the language so much that i end up having a large swathe of vocabulary or pet phrases that are only intelligible to myself and whichever...