Sky News
Former ambulance paramedic Mr Keys, 52, from Bala, said: 'It will be a David and Goliath fight, but Goliath was a Philistine and I think that word sums up my opponent.'
Let's all get behind Reg Keys and teach Blair a lesson he'll never forget.
Zoz
Sunday, March 20, 2005
Saturday, March 19, 2005
Wednesday, March 16, 2005
Sunday, March 13, 2005
Free poster for your cell
To celebrate our re-launch, this Sunday's super soaraway 'sden comes with this free poster of our legendary flounder, Red Woodward, fighting alongside the Fidelista in Finchley.
New improved formula! Free!
The super soaraway 'sden suddenly seems even superer. All new layout and fandabidozi giveaway pictures for all. Google gawkers glut your gizzards on our glamourous geewhiz graphics!
Marketing Dept.
Marketing Dept.
Friday, March 11, 2005
Old Bushmills?
Dave Allen dies aged 68
Guardian TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith, writing about Allen in 1993, said he was like a '20-year-old malt. Very rare and very expensive, I hope, and you'd recognise it with a bucket over your head. Sip for six weeks. Savour, don't swig.'
Guardian TV critic Nancy Banks-Smith, writing about Allen in 1993, said he was like a '20-year-old malt. Very rare and very expensive, I hope, and you'd recognise it with a bucket over your head. Sip for six weeks. Savour, don't swig.'
Dave Allen
Reuters.com
'Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers,' he said, referring to the missing tip of one of his fingers.
'Am I the Irish comedian with half a finger? No, I'm the Irish comedian with nine and a half fingers,' he said, referring to the missing tip of one of his fingers.
Goodnight, and may your God go with you
Willesden's favourite Irishman and all-round comic genius, Dave Allen, has died in his sleep, aged 68. He always ended his hilarious, and religion-lampooning TV shows with a suave, 'Goodnight, and may your God go with you.'
Tuesday, March 08, 2005
Poetry anthology update
Some of you may recall the poetry anthology I started trying to produce - it seems a long time ago now. It was going to be called last night's dream corrected after one of the pieces. The likelihood is that the collection will now form a separate section in the new anthology from PretendGeniusPress, called fish drink like us. I hope this might be acceptable to people who submitted work.
Update: Publication came eventually as a book in its own right.
Ossian
Monday, March 07, 2005
The security trap - New Labour's gamble on terrorism
The UK government is delighted to offer an unacceptable security bill at this time, because they calculate - with despicable cynicism - that there could be a terrorist outrage before the election. The only security they care about is the security of their seats in parliament, their tickets for the gravy train. The calculation is that a terrorist outrage before the election might turn the electorate against them, as it did in Spain with various complications, but that trapping the opposition into opposing a security bill will acquit the government of responsibility. Somebody should tell people about this, explain it to the public, so that New Labour's cynical gamble on terrorism, security and the election doesn't work.
Zoz
Zoz
Sunday, March 06, 2005
International labour unions
The solution to the problems of globalization lies in a new generation of labour unions, which will be international. These new unions will have to fight both the capitalists and the old national unions. This is the cause that the anti-globalization movement is searching for. Isn't it?
Zoz
Zoz
Attacking the Demi-Puppets
Reflections on Literary Rebellion Part I
"From the beginning, by the nature of our organization and our campaign, we've willfully put ourselves last among writers, 'the lowest of the low,' embracing this status. We recruited the most disgraced, overlooked, scorned, alienated, angriest, craziest outcast writers in the nation, desiring those at the bottom, complete underdogs; active outsiders."
Ossian
"From the beginning, by the nature of our organization and our campaign, we've willfully put ourselves last among writers, 'the lowest of the low,' embracing this status. We recruited the most disgraced, overlooked, scorned, alienated, angriest, craziest outcast writers in the nation, desiring those at the bottom, complete underdogs; active outsiders."
Ossian
Asian women writers - scripts wanted
From: "Brent Brain"
"Are you an Asian woman working on a short or full-length theatre script you would like to develop? Kali Shorts is the first stage of Kali Theatre's writer development programme. Selected writers will be able to join the Kali writers' group and receive support in the development of their work."
Ossian
"Are you an Asian woman working on a short or full-length theatre script you would like to develop? Kali Shorts is the first stage of Kali Theatre's writer development programme. Selected writers will be able to join the Kali writers' group and receive support in the development of their work."
Ossian
Saturday, March 05, 2005
Review of The London Silence
From: Attacking the Demi-Puppets
"We see [...] not a development into maturity, but a regression from confusion into the comforts of ignorance. This gives the collection a growing impact of depression, as if the world is so overwhelming the character wants to go backward. It's harshly realistic about the fate of young people who don't come from a glowing Cozzens or Fitzgerald background."
Ossian
"We see [...] not a development into maturity, but a regression from confusion into the comforts of ignorance. This gives the collection a growing impact of depression, as if the world is so overwhelming the character wants to go backward. It's harshly realistic about the fate of young people who don't come from a glowing Cozzens or Fitzgerald background."
Ossian
Sunday, February 27, 2005
Saturday, February 26, 2005
Westwords Live
"The largest literature festival that west London has ever seen kicks off in March. The Westwords Live Festival, which spans five west London boroughs, including Brent, features more than 100 events."
Ossian
Ossian
It's all happening - here
Westwords Live Festival
"The largest literature festival that west London has ever seen kicks off in March."
"The largest literature festival that west London has ever seen kicks off in March."
Thursday, February 24, 2005
The seven non-deadly sins
1. Waiting till your siblings have eaten their sweets before starting yours.
2. Buying the same car as next door.
3. Falling asleep and missing your stop on public transport.
4. Pillow fighting.
5. Imagining oneself witty.
6. Using ylang ylang bath oil.
7. Forgetting to worry.
Zoz
2. Buying the same car as next door.
3. Falling asleep and missing your stop on public transport.
4. Pillow fighting.
5. Imagining oneself witty.
6. Using ylang ylang bath oil.
7. Forgetting to worry.
Zoz
Things that culchies love (Zozimus's version)
1. Promotion based on seniority
2. Thumping jackeens out of sight in the back of a police van
3. The sound of their own voices especially with
5. A captive audience
6. Stone cladding
7. Counting their money
8. Creative accounting
9. Hitting animals with sticks
10. Hitting jackeens with sticks
11. Taking themselves very seriously
12. Driving as far to the wrong side the road as possible, as much as possible
13. Pictures of Pope John XXIII and Arkle
14. Mismatching colours
15. Dumplings
16. Commenting on other people's visits to the toilet
17. Long drawn out standing jokes
18. Catchphrases
19. Singing out of tune
20. Being experts about horses
21. Getting up the yard
Zoz
2. Thumping jackeens out of sight in the back of a police van
3. The sound of their own voices especially with
5. A captive audience
6. Stone cladding
7. Counting their money
8. Creative accounting
9. Hitting animals with sticks
10. Hitting jackeens with sticks
11. Taking themselves very seriously
12. Driving as far to the wrong side the road as possible, as much as possible
13. Pictures of Pope John XXIII and Arkle
14. Mismatching colours
15. Dumplings
16. Commenting on other people's visits to the toilet
17. Long drawn out standing jokes
18. Catchphrases
19. Singing out of tune
20. Being experts about horses
21. Getting up the yard
Zoz
Monday, February 21, 2005
Hunter S Thompson takes the Hemingway cure
Guardian Unlimited Books | News
"Thompson is credited with helping to pioneer New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, 'gonzo journalism' - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. 'Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist,' Thompson said in 2003. 'You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.'"
Ossian
"Thompson is credited with helping to pioneer New Journalism - or, as he dubbed it, 'gonzo journalism' - in which the writer made himself an essential component of the story. Much of his earliest work appeared in Rolling Stone magazine. 'Fiction is based on reality unless you're a fairytale artist,' Thompson said in 2003. 'You have to get your knowledge of life from somewhere. You have to know the material you're writing about before you alter it.'"
Ossian
Raising children as vegans 'unethical', says professor
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports
"A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying them meat."
The article contains some counter-arguments and further information about the findings.
Zoz
"A leading US nutritionist today claimed that vegetarian and vegan parents are damaging their children's health by denying them meat."
The article contains some counter-arguments and further information about the findings.
Zoz
Saturday, February 19, 2005
Organic rats in rude good health
Guardian Unlimited | Special reports
"Organic food can help you sleep, keep you slim and boost your immune system - if you are a rat."
It's a dilemma. Should we tell Kilroy Silk or not?
"Organic food can help you sleep, keep you slim and boost your immune system - if you are a rat."
It's a dilemma. Should we tell Kilroy Silk or not?
Wednesday, February 16, 2005
Kerouac's road trip unrolls to its end in an enigmatic tear
Scotsman.com News
"Fans of Kerouac and beatniks old and new have a chance to see every word, edit and smudge of his original manuscript, unrolled end to end and under glass at the University of Iowa Museum of Art."
Ossian
"Fans of Kerouac and beatniks old and new have a chance to see every word, edit and smudge of his original manuscript, unrolled end to end and under glass at the University of Iowa Museum of Art."
Ossian
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