Category: Family
Missing his playmate
‘Mum, can we play donkey pole?’ ‘What’s that? Do you mean Donkey Kong?’ ‘No.’ He pulls out a light sabre from behind his back. ‘I mean donkey pole, where I get to donk you over the head with this pole.’ ‘Oh. Well in that case, no thank you.’ ‘Okay!’ He runs off, and as he…
Establishing the link of physical resemblance – and gorgeousness, to boot – of two great actors
Following on from yesterday, I thought I’d make a collage to compare Sam Rockwell and Gary Oldman. Why? 1) Because I was interested to see if anyone else saw the resemblance or if it was just me. and 2) Um … well. Look at them! Why not?!
I have lost all vocabulary: THE REVENGE
Originally posted April 2009 I have lost all vocabulary. I arrive upon a cartoon bugler’s herald to a scene where with jesters hat jingling my words seem mocking; they serve no purpose. Emotional gravitas is thrown on a paperpile marked “for later.” Then it is hidden, and later unbidden, in my mind’s library where other…
