I can’t be alone in thinking this. I’d like to be though.
Posted: March 6, 2024 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: depression, funny, Humour, sad, Weird, writing Leave a commentThere’s always a risk of being honest online.
One must tread (type) carefully with the expectation that one is racist or something equally unpleasant and therefore not deserving of having a blog anymore.
Now, I probably am racist, but I’ll leave that to folk more qualified than myself to diagnose. I can’t think of any specific views or prejudices at this time, but I’m sure they’ll surface on my commute home through traffic.
Less so focused on the likely-racism for today though; I want to talk about feeling sad.
Because I do feel sad.
I’m sad right now.
Oh look, I just got sadder.
And this has happened before with me, and it’ll likely crop up again, but I do keep reverting to this perpetual option I have to wander into a field and die.
Not suicide – I don’t have a violent bone in my body – but definitely not trying any more.
I don’t know if that counts as ‘giving up’, or ‘no longer putting up with the planet’s negative sides any more’ (can a planet, being round, have a side? When I’m in a bad mood – yes it can. A temper-dependent, partially flat Earth).
Either way, I like the idea of having the option to wander into a field, sitting down, and worries ebbing away as one of two things happen.
- I master meditation and Zen the shit out of myself.
- I abandon the premise of hunger, ambition, regret, loss, hope, fear, glory, pride, and especially having a numb bum from sitting in a field for too long.
Hunter S Thompson made clear is his view on suicide, ultimately by shooting himself in the head (really showing his conviction) and in what he left behind – his words.
Beautiful words on the matter.
“I would feel real trapped in this life if I didn’t know I could commit suicide at any time.”
And then the note – ‘Football season is over’.
It was his final note. We probably shouldn’t know about it – I doubt it was ever meant for us.
But still, his point remains now as true as then.
It’s a weariness. I cannot be bothered with the blue bells and bird song.
I’ve had enough of the laughter of children and the company of friends.
Women aren’t what they used to be, nor am I.
Bye….along those lines.
The sort of things that are why you want to leave a dinner party that’s gone on too long, but you don’t mention because everyone thinks you’re suicidal, and that reflects awfully on their hosting skills.
I’ll cheer-up, I’m sure. Maybe not tomorrow, but hopefully before the weekend.
And whilst in this mood, I still like to ponder walking into a field, harmlessly, carelessly, and should I die then I shouldn’t care, because of the careless happiness I’d feel about being in a field.
On a sunny day, obviously.
Not too sunny, either – that won’t work for me.
For this I’d have that kind of particular preference that comes from a mix of memory and imagination and won’t ever actually happen – that’s my kind of weather.
It’s good for the soul.
Sam

Sandwich ingredients – can’t we all just get along?
Posted: January 31, 2024 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: bread, cheese, Etiquette, food, funny, Ham, Humour, Mundane fantasy, Sandwich, Sandwiches, Weird, writing Leave a commentSay you’re a slice of cheese, with all the crucial memories and opinions that a slice of cheese would have.
You want, specifics? Fine you’re brie.
Actually, no – you’re cheddar. Being cheddar is important for this.
It matters to me.
Anyway, you’re a slice of opinionated (cheddar) cheese – and someone places a slice of ham on top of you.
Opinionated ham.
Ham with a mother.
Ham with hopes (not dreams though – it’s just ham).
And that slice of ham is laying on top of you face to cheesy face – how would you feel?
Perhaps you’d nod politely at one another, like businessman bumping into each other on a crowded train, but then again, that doesn’t often happen when they’re both horizontal.
It’d be really neat if you’d both simply get along. No need to shove.
But that’s not all – next is the disappointment that comes from the comfortable slice of bread you yourself had already been placed on.
You’d been enjoying it being as soft and convenient as it was to relax upon, though weirdly, it was particularly buttery. As buttery as anything you can think of as being buttery.
Not many things are buttery. In fact, its likely that most things that are buttery, aside from bread, are not intended to be buttery.
Buttery.
Albeit buttery, it was a pleasant place to find yourself as a slice of cheese, even when a slice of ham is pressed against you.
Then, you see over the slice of ham’s………………. shoulder (?)……a second slice of bread descending its way towards you.
Now I can’t pretend to have ever heard cheese before. But if I were then, like you are now – a piece of cheese about to be imprisoned within the kind of butteriness that you’d honestly begun to trust – I think I’d have a lot to say. And even more to scream.
Meanwhile, the slice of ham is still squished up against you, face-to-face, unable to move because it’s inanimate (AKA “thoroughly well-cooked”) and is desperately asking what you’re freaking out about, but can sense the darkness looming up from behind it.
As I said, I’ve never heard cheese, and I’ve never heard the inside of a sandwich either, but I’ll bet its muffled.
Now I don’t want to be grim here. There’s no pain in the life of this cheese (can’t guarantee same for the ham) so have no fear of me describing the agony of teeth coming together through you – some cheddar cheese.
But, the idea of being chewed cheese basically just occurred to me and I wanted to share consideration for the sensation with you.
My favourite part was the suggestion of the cheese and ham nodding politely at each other. Its nice to get along.
There might be a metaphor in there somewhere, sandwich ingredients getting along and so on.
But I’ll leave that to you to be interested in, I’m just curious about being a piece of cheese.
Sam

Why I don’t remember my weekends.
Posted: January 26, 2024 Filed under: Matters that Matter | Tags: blog, blogging, children, daydreaming, distraction, family, feet, funny, Humour, pigs, reverie, travel, vikings, wife, writing Leave a commentI tend not to remember my weekends, because I tend not to remember most things that aren’t memorable.
I cooked pig’s feet on Sunday night, and I have literally no clue what we took place.
No clue.
I’m thoroughly informed on the flavour of trotters (taste like pig feet, probably like your feet too), but not on the preceeding 48 hours.
It’s because I ‘Walter Mitty’ – but not in the exotic or adventurous sense like the famous movie.
Instead, when my weekend is happening, and especially when my wife is explaining to me what we’re doing for the weekend, I like to get lost in an internal fiction of mundane oddness.
And it’s very frustrating.
I’d love to enjoy the memories of a weekend, or maybe even the weekend itself, but I reverie without mercy to the point that I’ve broadly got no idea what’s going on.
My wife was speaking, as I presume she does regularly, and instantaneously I began daydreaming about how I would explain to an ancient Viking that a cow is female, using only the most choice grunts and hand-gestures.
Why did I do that?
I didn’t do that!
That daydream happened to me and I simply couldn’t look away.
If this bizarre scenario played itself in your head – you’d also miss-out on your wife’s plans for your weekend.
And to be frank, whilst I’d like to enjoy the weekend, sometimes – I also really want to give some serious consideration to how I’d explain to an ancient Viking that a cow is female, and then watching myself in my own head, with an ancient Viking I’ve never even met before, miming a vagina whilst really committing to an effeminate moo.
Sometimes, I’d really like to do that.
But, reality is also lovely at times.
My wife and kids a smashing, really lovely. Can’t fault them at all.
My wife walks towards me with a smile that she can’t help – because she, like me, has a massive face.
Thus, she presents me with a smile, the same way someone might want to show me they’ve a bucket.
And my children – they’re worth being around for, as well as all that parental responsibility, etc.
My son reminds me of me, he’s the best show off and hopefully will do better than having a blog one day.
My daughter makes me laugh, and I expect that’s a phase till she finds easier means of getting chocolates and dollies.
How do they compare with an ancient Viking ignorant of bovine gender?
They’re preferable, but I’m still distracted by the ridiculous.
I’ll just have to concentrate on the preferable, I suppose.
But I hope you appreciate that having an uninvited Nordic fellow, complete with axe and beard and numerous other stereotypic apparel, inserted into your head from nowhere, might be distracting.
Because it is – I’ve written a whole blog about it. That’s how distracting it is – it gives me focus.
If this distracting focus makes me a millionaire thanks to this blog, that’s a negative – I don’t want my son to be inspired by such things.
He’s already distracted enough, with the void look in his eyes that tells me that in his head he’s somewhere nicer than the conversation I’m currently giving him.
He needs a good, solid focus, uninfluenced by fictional Vikings and me.
He needs his grinning mother – the ultimate reality, the sort you can both hang your hat on and rely.
My daughter will be fine, she takes after the ultimate reality with the big face.
I’m reminded of something teachers have said for, I expect, centuries…”must try harder”.
I’ll certainly try.
Sam

I read the paper. Now I’ve opinions.
Posted: December 24, 2023 Filed under: Today's paper. | Tags: Banksy, cats, Christmas, Christmas swim, dogs, Druids, funny, Humour, News, Newspaper, poo, Sewage, Stonehenge, Stop, Street art, Veterinary, Winter soltice, writing Leave a commentYou’d better watch out!
You’d better not cry!
You’d better watch out and I’m telling you why...
Sam just read the paper, today.
And the world is fucked, in a very ‘but buy tomorrow’s edition’ way.
Actually, you can’t buy tomorrow’s edition because it’s Christmas Day, but that’s no reason to not panic about world events.
Such as the pet owner who was charged £40 for a phone call to discuss his cat’s constipation.

If the cat had eaten the phone, causing both constipation and a necessary phone call, I’m on the side of the vet. Holding up a scratching and wailing cat to my ear will result in me as calmly as possible letting you know that I’m going to be charging you for this above my normal rates.
Of course, the cat didn’t eat the phone, which is nice, and it did get some medicine, which is about as nice as not eating a phone.
Then there was the annual Christmas Day plunge into sewage on the nation’s coastal swimming spots.

Concerns are that those who like the bracing experience of seawater in December whilst wearing an amusing hat might get poo in their mouths, eyes, stomachs and bloodstream. And brain, probably.
I don’t know much about poo, but I wonder if it’s good for the skin. Probably not, but also, possibly so.
Maybe we should start finding alternative uses for poo, rather than just sending it down river or hiding it under less-pooey things.
Maybe use it in Law? Like shitting in the sinks of the water company Execs for every illness and death their actions caused. Copro-punishment.
Still, here’s hoping the Execs and the swimmers all have a happy Christmas.
The Druids made the news, at the only time of year they ever seem to these days (scarcely at all this millenia so far) to welcome winter solstice.

They watched the sun come up apparently, at Stonehenge. Quite windy, according to reports.
Surrounded by Druids and flaming torches, with a sun rising between ancient menhirs, that must feel like a good place for the world to end. Wiltshire.
And lastly, someone was arrested for stealing some valuable criminal damage.

Banksy does his stencil and spray-paint thing and people are arrested for stealing it before the council has a fair chance to steal it for themselves.
When I write “bugger” on a wall, I’m just stared at. By my wife. In the living room.
A good message in the sign though. Things do need to stop. I hope they do.
Merry Christmas wishes and hopes to all those who won’t have one.
Sam
There are ballerinas out there. Somewhere. Boiling eggs.
Posted: December 22, 2023 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: ballerina, ballerinas, ballet, dance, floating, funny, Humour, The Nutcracker, thud, toes Leave a commentI give you my word on this. Ballerinas are heavy.
By God, you know when a ballerina’s leap is finished. They land visually like nobody else – dainty and flowery. But they land audibly like the best and rest of us. “Thud.“
Though I’ve not been landed-upon my many professionals, I’m sure ballerinas would take the biscuit, even more than a bakery burglar.
I think they have to be weighty – as a matter of function.
One can’t twiddle one’s toes incessantly, to the point of being able to launch an entire human through the air just by toe-power, without becoming immensely and densely muscular from the ankle down.
That’s why ballerina’s thud.
They’re paid to thud.
They’re trained to thud.
And they bloody well do, thud.
However, the thud is only so thuddy thanks to the silence with which they float through the air, but this is where it depends on what you attend a ballet for, because I really think the thud lasts longer than the floating.
Whilst floating is for some, and thudding is for others, I’m not a real fan of either in the context of ballet. Devastating news, I know, for the thousands of ballerinas reading this, but I’ve a priority I must ask.
Where are you? And what are you doing?
It’s it strange to think that there are ballerinas out there in the world, in society, being ballerinas.
Catching flights, boiling eggs, breaking up with partners, forgetting their cat’s name till the third attempt, and perhaps maybe even two or three other things, but all whilst being a ballerina.
I’d presume they need to stub their toes continually too, simply to ensure hardiness, so any opportunity to kick something hard would be taken too. I presume. I don’t know as I’ve never met a ballerina, but they must be out there somewhere.
Probably, though hopefully not, you’re presuming I’ve a weird focus on wanting to find a ballerina.
I don’t want to find a ballerina at all, and I’ve no intention of seeking them out. I just don’t want to be surprised by one all of a sudden when out in public.
DO you catch flights? DO you boil eggs?
And do you read a script for your feet?
The Nutcracker is a ballet over 100 years old, and there is a much beloved score that is performed note for note, as per the sheet music.
Where’s the script for the feet? Or is improvisation of the feet expected?
Are ballets scripted per flourish of the limb? Is it written somewhere, or does a choreographer tell people when to move which leg where and in what manner once the Rat King turns up?
When to thud, and when to float? And in which direction, and – remember this – with a facial expression?!
Maybe I should meet a ballerina, just to dispel these ignorancies of mine, but till I do I’ll simply have to remain vague in understanding, though I’ll tell everyone that asks that I expect ballerinas are out there somewhere, and that they do boil eggs when necessary.
And that’s just the primary ballerina, which I think is a ‘soloist’, but there are extras too, and what the hell do they spend their time doing apart from practicing to over-react to a ballerina’s floating whilst pretending that a thud isn’t about to happen.
I suppose it is like much of stage theatre – a matter of over-reacting until you’re paid, in costume, at matinee and evening performances. Acting can be brilliant, but to really pull of being a stage-extra, you’ve got to get the knack of over-reacting subtly.
Like a parsnip chip pretending to be a potato chip. Very convincing, and quite irritating too.
I’d rather be the bear that pursues the rest of them off-stage.
I could make a good bear. I’d look better anyway.
I always do when I look like someone else.
Sam

Making your brother King of Spain, just to show him who is boss
Posted: September 17, 2023 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: funny, history, Humour, king of spain, Napoleon, siblings Leave a commentI was reading about Napoleon and Waterloo and Wellington, and their brothers and household expenses, and the monarchy, and becoming emperor, and Josephine, etc, and more etc, last night.
Or, I was reading about the ‘Napoleonic period’, if you’d prefer to read a better-written sentence?
There was a particular take-away for me, which was that at some point the Emperor Napoleon decided to make his older brother the King of Naples (which is nice), and then the King of Spain (which is also nice).
I cannot conceive of the bragging rights that allocates you, when you’ve made your older brother the King of two different things.
I’d love to make my big brother the King of Spain, just to show him.
Just to show him that whilst he once made himself King of the Castle, pushing me in the face back down the climbing frame, I’ve now gone slightly mental enough to make him King of Spain and there’s nothing he can do about it.
You’re King of Spain. No backsies.
And he’d have to sit on his throne and send me reports when I ask for them, and host banquets for important guests that I can’t be bothered to meet because I’m Emperor, bitch.
It’s also Spain, so I can regularly intimate that whilst I’m made him King, this is also a very easy kingdom to have bestowed on you by your younger brother.
However, for me to do this today would require a lot of paperwork, and quite frankly an invasion of Spain that I am just not up to right now.
I have a baseball bat and one of those flashlights you can strap to your head.
Spain might not be seen as a military power anymore, but I expect they can outdo me on the advanced military technology front.
If their army is two people, then they’ve outdone me on the manpower front too.
Two-to-one.
My brother tried to inflict a nobility on me once, by purchasing a square foot of land in Scotland that somehow entitles me to be known as a ‘Lord’.
It was a wedding gift, and I’ll have my vengeance, for that and for the climbing frame incident of 1996.
Now if you’ll kindly excuse me, I need to raise an army to overthrow the monarchy, become tyrant of Europe, lose it all, gain it all back again, have a really, seriously bad time in Russia, go down in history and one of the greatest generals and leaders of all time, and, most importantly, get one over on my big brother.
Sam

Why do those without legs insist on running marathons?
Posted: September 9, 2023 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: archery, dentistry, funny, Humour, legs, marathon, menstrual cycle, obligation, Putin, Ukraine Leave a commentI saw a news article on a Ukrainian teenager whose legs had been blown off by Putin.
And, after that, wonderful things happened because of wonderful people, and so she’s not dead and she now has prosthetic legs.
So now she’s running a marathon.
Why not archery?
Or, anything else that wasn’t a metaphor for overcoming all those naysayers, like Putin, who said she couldn’t run marathons anymore because she’s got no damn legs.
If my lower half left me, I’d regroup and set about working out how best to achieve sitting-down from now on, but I’m not going to take up tap dancing just to show ‘them’.
Maybe I’d tap dance against Putin, but not if he told me not to. Because he’s a limb-deducting psycho.
Good for that teenager. Good for Ukraine.
But remember you’re not bound by tradition to run marathons just because you’ve had your legs blown off.
You can do anything.
Even archery.
I dislike the idea of a PR agency suggesting that there is traction to be achieved if you go down the no-legs marathon route. And if you’re with-it enough to note “but I’ve never liked running, and I’d much prefer to do some other things”, they’d respond: “Oh dear, I don’t think you realise the full benefit of having your legs blown off.”
I dislike that a lot.
Being obliged is not my business.
Just as when you’re having a nice menstrual cycle (as my wife and I call it – having a ‘runny egg’), you’re not obliged to wear ghost-white clothing and go for a vagina-stretching bike ride in front of men in the park.
You could have a period and do archery.
It’s your choice, you’re not bound by narratives.
If you’re a grouch throughout the year till Christmas Eve, you’re not obliged to have a soul-searching experience that causes you to unfold in favour of the whimsy and spirit of the season the following morning. You can just read the paper and stay home with your tin of cold beans for lunch.
Your choice. Make it. Your paper, read it. Your beans, eat them.
Avoid Putin, and enjoy your choice, paper and beans. If he allows it. Or get your legs blown off again.
If you have no legs and want to run a marathon……fine. As long as you actually want to do it.
You could alternatively take up dentistry.
Speaking of which, if you’ve sensitive teeth and have recently begun using a new toothpaste to counter the sensitivity, there’s no law, no ruling, no enforced doctrine that means you must now drinketh only ice-water, and eateth only hot food stuffs, just to show you can.
You’re as entitled to tepid food as anyone.
I’ll bet Putin has sensitive teeth, and that’s what this is all about.
Hey Putin, got sensitive teeth?
“No. Only judo.“
‘Only Judo’, what are you talking about Putin?
Sam

Bring and Bless in Bulk – a Google Maps religion
Posted: August 11, 2023 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: advertising, blessing, funny, google maps, holy water, Humour, internet, Religion, Weird 1 CommentBring it by to my house and I’ll bless it for you.
In bulk.
I’ll bless mounds of just about anything, just bring it by.
In bulk.
I’ll bless a large pile of poorly dogs.
I’ll bless your collection of wardrobes you’ve suspiciously just ‘inherited’.
Bring your babies by in bulk, and I’ll bless ’em.
Between the hours of 9:00-9:30, Monday-Friday. Closed on weekends.
On weekends, and after 9:30 on weekdays, keep your piles of poorly puppies to yourself, and don’t come near me with your wardrobes and babies.
I offer good rates (preferably donations, maybe even a pleasant sacrifice or two), but not after 9:30 on weekdays.
One evening I discovered that you can add businesses and places of worship to addresses on Google Maps.
This is very handy, as you can save it as a location, but you can also simply google search your house and then set directions to it from there. Easy.
Plus, you can build a business/worship empire by advertising on Google Maps that you specialize in blessing what people bring in bulk.
I still haven’t made millions in donations or sacrifices yet, but at least I can get home easier.
Also, I’m not too sure how to bless something. I can fling water at what I’m supposed to bless (in bulk, just bring it) but I was doing that anyway.
And I’m not too sure what kind of water to use.
There’s a tap on the wall in Westminster Cathedral. I reckon the priests there bless the tap, amongst other plumbing, so all water passing through is instantly blessed too.
So I could fill a bottle with that, but is that the luxury service I want to provide?
I should be able to offer still or sparkling holy water, chilled or boiled to remove toxins.
I could freeze it too, and so that you really, really feel the blessing when it bounces off your forehead.
But that might damage your wardrobes.
Either way, I’m on Google Maps now, but don’t come near my home for trouble as I’ve also blessed my baseball bat collection and will bless your brains out.
Donations and sacrifices still welcome, of course.
Between 9:00-9:30 on weekdays, anyway.
Sam

Kids say the darndest things, thank god spiders don’t.
Posted: June 17, 2022 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty. | Tags: funny, Humour, kids, spiders 1 CommentSo, with two young children running around and beginning to say things (my one year old daughter said “Love you” for the first time today whilst I put her to bed, whilst my son sought me out in the kitchen whilst washing up to tell me “Daddy, two of The Beatles are DEAD”), I’m reminded that having something to say is a matter I really enjoy talking about.
It wasn’t long ago that I noted publicly (as public as a blog can be…public if any cares enough to give a damn to look at it) that sometimes all you need is something to say.
This has served me well, with interviews, romantic dates, speeches, parental lessons, and perhaps most especially when I would like to blog but don’t have anything to write about.
It’s akin to penning a novel about how nice it would be not to have writer’s block.
Writer’s block.
That’d be a woe far more begrudgingly acknowledged if it was a granite block in the center of the town, which writers could bang their head against to clear the haze. That’d have miners and sailors nodding across the pub at writers, heads heavily bandaged, but at least now having something to write about.
OH MY BABY JESUS (I love that baby) MY WIFE JUST CALLED ME OUTSIDE TO OUR GARDEN SHED TO SEE A SPIDER SLIGHTLY LARGER THAN OUR GARDEN SHED.
We’ve locked all the doors.
If that spider wants into my house, it’ll have to learn to climb up the drainpipe or something ridiculous like that.
I don’t like spiders.
They don’t like me, but that’s usually ‘afterwards‘.
This one in the shed was a big bulky bugger too. One of those ones with a lot of body – like its got some sass.
It’s sassy-sense was tingling. BBW – Big Black Widow.
It wasn’t really a black widow, just a common-garden-terrifying-spider with mandibles it appeared to be able to lean on.
Then it moved. And at once the whole world felt as though it was made from spiders, where even the concrete beneath my feet felt like the suspicious tickle of WHATTHEFUCK…ITSINTHEFOOTKILLTHEFOOT.
‘Tickle’ is a good description of how a spider moves. Combine ‘tickle’ with ‘stalk’, and we’d be hitting the nail on the head. Or we could just hit the spider and just make do with ‘splat’. Maybe ‘tickle’ is how they feel when there aren’t actually any around but you’re still dwelling on them.
I don’t like spiders.
And they still don’t like me.
Maybe because they’ve read this.
Maybe they can’t read.
Spiders are illiterate, sure, but I wouldn’t throw that in their face. That’s what my slipper is for.
My wife kept calling the spider “he” to begin with, before each time quickly correcting (wrongly) to “she”, whilst I had been quite happy to make do with “it”, then to do away with “it” and never think or worry about “it” again from behind a locked door.
However, my thinking towards pronouns changed too as I kept watching it. It was so big, I feel like only a collective noun would really be appropriate for this singular “them” of a spider.
Crows are known as ‘murders’, hyenas are a ‘cackle’….this spider in my shed should be an ‘punchitinalegtwice’.
I don’t know if their legs are the worst part, nor the mandibles, nor the eyes. I think it’s the silence.
‘A silence of spiders’. That is way, way too eerie a collective noun than I’m going to permit then, no matter if it is perfectly appropriate.
Something isn’t appropriate if I’d rather it wasn’t.
I’ve seen bigger spiders before this one though. Not just seen them. Heard them.
This might counter my earlier point about silence (also in turn upsetting my second point about appropriateness – making it inappropriate, which according to the flip of that exact point might make it appropriate….going on and on about this same point just isn’t….now’s not the time), but I did once encounter a common-garden-terrifying-spider that was so huge I could hear it coming.
It ran around the corner of my windowsill and waved its legs at me, like a yobbo. I shut the window sharpish, but could still see it waggling its oh-so-too-many limbs at me.
I don’t like spiders.
Spiders don’t like me, most evidently.
I do like writing this way, reacting to what is occurring – like my wife calling me outside to see a spider.
I’d better make sure the doors are still locked. It might try to get in, plus my wife.
At the start of this piece I began by sharing something that my children had said to me today. Here’s another:
My wife went to get a tattoo today, a real beauty – a snowdrop flower on the back of her neck. I never thought her neck could get any lovelier (why the hell would anyone thing such a thing about necks?), but now it is, and it is forever.
I told my son this, that his mummy was going to the tattoo shop to get a new tattoo, and he replied with concern: “are her other tattoos broken”?
All you need is something to say, but sometimes its nice to have something said to you too.
Sam
Writing With Impetus, Before It’s Too Late
Posted: October 22, 2018 Filed under: Brief...therefore witty., Uncategorized | Tags: climate change, fatherhood, funny, houses, Humour, media, money, Nazis, rolex, taylor swift, Weird, writing Leave a commentWell who’d have thought, I’m actually writing.
Sorry for the delay and even greater apologies for the delay ending and writing resuming.
I know I don’t write articles for everyone’s tastes – that’s why (as well as a distinct lack of writing talent), they’re not overly-well received.
For example, I was walking down the street the other day (it doesn’t matter which street or which day because this is fiction) and I noticed I wasn’t a millionaire.
How embarrassing.
And to think; I was really in the mood for a Rolex…
Still, no pounds equals one impetus. Lack of millions of pounds gives one glorious idea, to become a millionaire.
Not even a millionaire – that comes across as ideal hostage material – but instead ‘comfortable’. Such as having a house and no concerns about it.
I would like a house, all mine, my walls and my windows, preferably my own ceiling, I don’t give a fuck who the potted plants belong to, so long as I get my necessary verticals and horizontals.
And I’ve a good job, with a good wife enjoying a good pregnancy, a good future filled with good prospects, and a good urge to write, as well as a good thesaurus filled with good synonyms and I can apply anytime I like (but I’m comfortable now and the book is just out of bother’s reach).
So, aside from the typical life of typical pleasantries, I might just indulge in this writing habit I’ve tried my best to give-up and start actually writing.
So, now, I’m actually writing.
I tried writing as a practise for this yesterday.
I thought I’d try writing about my hair.
It went so well I burnt the first draft, not realising I only had one good (thesaurus still out of reach) draft in me and I’d put too much effort into burning my laptop to sit down with remaining stoker (pen) and surviving kindling (note-pad) to let loose another masterpiece in one evening.
Thus we’re here, writing about writing and progressing just as I’d hoped.
I’d like to write for my supper, though I think writing for my breakfast would be greater inspiration.
Sure, at supper time one has a day’s worth of worth to pen down with a fire-stoker, but in the morning you’ve got a wonderfully blank piece of paper to ruin perfectly with just the kind of prose that can set a day right. This is a metaphor.
What a metaphor!
However, I’ve missed breakfast and have moved onto a mid-evening port, in the glow of a newly borrowed laptop and the warmth of a reason to write.
Millionairehood/millionairedom/millionairity.
Or rather being a home-owner/house-holder/property-possessor/abode-abider.
Since I’ve moved onto alliteration, I might burn this laptop too, but I don’t think my pen could last to stoke another fire.
Still, this is breakfast writing, and perhaps since this is now a great (wife passed me thesaurus) post-port time in the evening, I can write about that which has happened across the planet as of late.
I was reading the other morning that we’re all fucked.
Whilst I enjoyed Al Gore’s somewhat more bar-chart method of translating the complex data, I do prefer an image of inferno and the prose that practically smell with the sheer excitement of the author.
Sensationalist writing is like fascism. It gets things done when they’re ready to be done.
If I hadn’t been in the mood to like-totally freak out, then it wouldn’t have been successfully sensationalism. If 1930’s Germany hadn’t been in the mood for a snappier uniform and literally snappier mode of marching, they wouldn’t have done what 1930’s Germany did (lose).
With another reference to writing about writing, we have now arrived at the point at which the author has drawn parallels to the Nazis, with very little reason to. And whilst that’s fine in these-and-thus days, if you’d have tried that in 1930’s Germany, you’d have been writing as a contemporary.
I’ve realised I’m feeling silly, and here we thus-hence-and-therefore are (this thesaurus might now be deemed too-near. That’s writing, I’m “deeming” things).
Besides, upon the news of the planet being universally fucked, I’m more inclined to take things a tad more jovially.
For this reason, I’m mixing tales of hair, being a millionaire, Nazis, and Al Gore.
BBC News has a ‘Top Ten Most Read’ section, and the number one point for a recent single day was the end of the world being very much so ‘nigh’. The following day, perhaps even the afternoon of the day prior, the nation’s focus was on Taylor Swift at long last revealing how she feels about US politics.
I don’t want to say that how Taylor Swift feels about politics in the US is not important. But the lack of verbalised opinion in regard to the viewpoint of “FUCK how Taylor Swift feels about politics in the US” gives rise to the righteousness of the previous day’s number one story.
We’re fucked, and the following day we were slightly more fucked, and slightly more deserving.
With a baby on the way, I’ve impetus to de-fuck the world, but Taylor Swift doesn’t listen to me and she’s the one with millions of many things.
I’ve very few things totalling in the millions.
I’ve millions of atoms of course, but I tend not to count them (it’d take ages).
I do have a son on the way though. And whilst he’s not a million things either, he is one thing that could be more than a million things and it up to people like me (the fellow that caused him into being about, along with his culpable mother) to take action.
Unfortunately for my son, the particular action I’ll be taking is writing about my hair.
Who knows? It might pay for a house for him to grow up into a fucked-up world.
I’ll keep typing, tomorrow.
It’s good to be back
All the best,
Sam