Waiting Game For The Long Midnight Reprint

Added on 31 October 2008

A waiting game in the reprint of The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson. Waiting games are bad. Waiting games lead to stress. Unlike the banjo wait, which wasn’t particularly stressful because, in the end, if the banjo hadn’t arrived I would just have got one from somewhere else - sure, Pol...

Wrestling A Doughnut

Added on 30 October 2008

I came across a phrase yesterday I’d never heard before. It’s like wrestling a gorilla. You don’t stop when you’re tired, you stop when the gorilla’s tired. I put it into Google, and it appears to be this incredibly well known phrase, not quite up there with you can tak...

Banjo Watch - Day 11

Added on 29 October 2008

Got an e-mail from BobDylan.Com last night. The e-mails arrive with Bob Dylan in the From column, as if Bob himself might have written to you. He’s playing a concert in New York City on 21st November, and only people who visit BobDylan.Com to get the password will be able to buy a ticket. I sa...

Banjo Crisis

Added on 28 October 2008

I’m waiting on a banjo. I could say sweating on a banjo, but that might be overstating it. For most of the last forty-four years I’ve had the same view of the banjo as everyone else. They’re ok in very small doses and when Billy Connolly plays one, but otherwise, best left unheard....

Hallowe'en Nightmare

Added on 27 October 2008

Since spending an enjoyable evening three autumn’s ago walking down Pleasant Street, Manchester-by-the-Sea on 31st October, the kids have been infatuated with the idea of the American Hallowe'en. (Consequently, I’ve never taken them back...) Last Friday evening in Warsaw, the United Stat...