Tuesday 7 June 2016

The Day Before

The day before your birthday is always a tricky one. My gambit on other people's birthdays is to send them the message 'Happy Inconsequential Day' on the day before and ignore the birthday itself! Birthdays are tricky. Actually, the day before anything ceremonial or important is often very difficult.

We're being buried in politics right now, and it's not the nicest kind. Thinking about a birthday is almost preferable to referenda, primary elections, nationalism running rampant (but mostly imaginarily) and the horrible histories of past prime ministers being revisited in the present. Do you think there was ever a time when we debated things sensibly in this country, or was it always just tit for tat name calling of the worst order? At least it's not the United States, where there's a good chance that a raving lunatic could be elected president.

Yes, welcome to the wacky world as it stands. It's a relief to have a blog to write and stories to compose, and a fantasy land of books and movies to escape into. Never has 'Star Trek' and its message of positivity been needed so much!

In side notes, the Preston Sturges movie 'Unfaithfully Yours' was rather good, but not really rewatchable. Sturges always did interesting things, even when the overall result was a bit bizarre. Oh, Rex Harrison, you're always so close to being an excellent fit...

And now, let us return to the wacky world of blog writing, just in time to realise we've reached the end yet again. E-mail remains to be written, as do the next parts of 'Wordspace', 'The Glove', 'Diary Of A Laundry Robot' and 'The Ninja Of Health'. Two of those stories will take precedence, but which?

O.

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