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Monthly Archives: October 2016
I do like a nice bit of sky…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s financial forecast is for everyone to finally realise that world finance is an inherently chaotic system and that predicting anything in it is impossible. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, walking home from town one day last week there … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, art, blues, colours, composition, Dulltown, Hull.UK., humour, information, photography, seeing, serendipity, surrealism, Uncategorized
Tagged advertising, Arizona, art, arts, colour, Colours, discovery, financial forecast, observations, photography, Photoshop, serendipity, skies, style, sunsets, surrealism
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like a minor-seventh chord played on a wet piano. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘I’m going too, the flame, oh oh!…’ ‘Noy-noy, is the only decent side to you-oo.’ ‘Rainy roof, steel … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, cafe, composition, Hull.UK., humour, information, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, cafe song lyrics, dictionary word, discovery, giddy, madness, minor seventh chord, music, observations, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, unusual pencil sharpener, wet piano, words
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Musing on muscles…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotation is from The Adventure of the Speckled Band: Watson: Suddenly there was a momentary gleam of light up in the direction of the ventilator, which vanished immediately, but was succeeded … Continue reading
Posted in books, drama, humour, information, observations, puzzle, sculpture, thinking, writing
Tagged art, bodybuilding, celebrities, dark lantern, Dr Watson, madness, Michelangelo's David, muscles, observations, putting screws in, sculpture, Sherlock Holmes, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, surrealism, The Speckled Band, weak hands, working out, writing
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Mail Art Postcard No. 4612…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s carefully selected adjectives are: anodyne, dramaturgic, spelaean, waxy, pyretic, groined, and bombastic. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Now, come along dear reader… Is this image pleasantly and fleetingly amusing, or is this out-and-out horror? There is a natural easy-going … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, art, brain, composition, creation, history, humour, postcards, seeing, serendipity, surrealism, words
Tagged adjectives, advertising, animals in clothes, anodyne, art, arts, bombastic, collage, dictionary word, dogs in frocks, dramaturgical, history, madness, mouths, organ grinder's monkey, photography, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
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Avenger-Trek on the TV…
But first… Dulltown UK: Today’s heraldic term is ‘pale’ – a vertical band down the centre of a shield. By the way, the ancient arms of the City of Dulltown are emblazoned thus: Azure three ducal coronets in pale or. … Continue reading
Posted in conversation, cool, drama, food, heraldry, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, serendipity, Star Trek, style, surrealism, TV, words
Tagged 1960s, 1960s Star Trek, 1960s The Avengers, art, arts, azure, Captain Kirk, conversation, Curry, dictionary word, ducal coronets, heraldry, history, in pale, John Steed, madness, or, Parsnips, poetry, serendipity, Stardate, style, surrealism, TV, words
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This will be a most attractive gift item…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s silly sounding word is ‘oblong’. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> What’s that fusty smell? Where is it coming from?… Oh, it must be that old junk shop book, The 1954 Gadgets Annual, lying there on the table. Oh, hang on, … Continue reading
Posted in archeology, books, conversation, design, history, humour, information, instruction, joke, Uncategorized, words
Tagged 1954, 1954 Gadgets Annual, Albert and Madge, conversation, cuddle, drawing, gift items, history, instruction, make-do and mend, perspex, serendipity, style, surrealism, the 1950s, tooth picks, words
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Stella is sniffy about a colour…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s dictionary words are: arcanum, spondyl, moufflon, waldflute, ianthine, and gru-gru. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor fail … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, colours, composition, conversation, food, humour, information, painting, science, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, colour, conversation, Dark chocolate digestives, dictionary word, dictionary words, drawing, green, painting, pastel drawing, photography, Profdessor Mouldie, pun, quasi-stella object, religion, spondyl, Stella, style, surrealism, Taylors of Harrogate Yorkshire Tea, words
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So, how do you feel now?…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s existential angst is centred around the strangeness of the word magnet. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Good morning sir. Do you have a prescription?’ ‘Eh?… No, but I have just been to the doctor’s.’ ‘Oh, I see? So, what … Continue reading
Posted in brain, conversation, existentialism, humour, surrealism, words
Tagged Call me Ishmael, colour, coloured pills, conversation, duodenum, existential angst, madness, magnets, medicine, pharmacy, placebo, surrealism, words
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Just a few titchy items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s expletive is Sbud! – a rather nice condensed form of S’Blood! or God’s Blood! I think I might try to slip Sbud into all of my conversations today. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 310. … Continue reading
Posted in cafe, conversation, cool, design, Dulltown, existentialism, expletives, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, overheard, serendipity, words
Tagged a way with worms, children, conversation, Costa Coffee, design of saucers, dictionary word, discovery, expletives, financial forecast, fragmnent of the true cross, God's Blood!, hair growing competition, history, late, madness, misheard, observations, overheard, religion, S'blood!, saxophrage, serendipity, style, surrealism, words
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Some parts of an overheard and misheard cafe conversation…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s china teapot is the one shaped like the House of Lords. (H of L) >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, I was sitting in the cafe late yesterday afternoon with my little notebook and pen on the table in … Continue reading
Posted in brain, cafe, conversation, cool, drama, dreaming, existentialism, humour, information, misheard, overheard, poetry, serendipity, sex, surrealism
Tagged all over me, art, arts, Cafe Conversation, conversation, dark curtains, dictionary word, discovery, eggs up, Facebook, fresh meat, House of Lords, mad gorgeous, madness, menial, misheard, mud fight, observations, overheard, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, teapot, words, writing
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Thanks for coming…
But first… Dulltown UK: Today’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotation is from The Adventure of the Illustrious Client: Watson: Both Holmes and I had a weakness for the Turkish bath. It was over a smoke in the pleasant lassitude of … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, colours, composition, Dulltown, expletives, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, photography, seeing, serendipity, style, writing
Tagged civic pride, composition, Dulltown, East Riding of Yorkshire, Hull - UK City of Culture 2017, Hull UK, pride
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Uncle Dave’s Guitar Club – Amp Chat…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s unusual pencil sharpener is the one shaped like the end of a bad dream. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> So, guitar amplifiers – have you ever wondered what all the shiny knobs at the top on the front do? … Continue reading
Posted in blues, cool, Film, guitars, humour, information, irony, music, observations, surrealism, Uncategorized, words
Tagged amplifier knobs, arts, conversation, film, Guitar amplifiers, It Hurts Me Too Elmore James, music, observations, presence knob, pronunciation, REsearch, REverb, reverberation, Spinal Tap, surrealism, up to 11, words
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Doom and the black marker…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s colours are: rhubarb red, periwinkle blue, vulgar violet, morbid mauve, yelling yellow, and gnarled green. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I rarely watch the local news on the TV, I find it a bit parochial, but as I was … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, colours, composition, drama, Dulltown, Hull.UK., humour, mind, money, surrealism, swearing, words, writing
Tagged art, arts, Arts administrators, colour, dictionary word, Doom, Dulltown city centre, existential angst, expletives, glory days, Hull - UK City of Culture 2017, Hull City Hall, Hull Guildhall, madness, poetry, Simon Doom, style, surrealism, The Hull Surrealist League, Tokamak, words, writing
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The Hilary/Beefheart rhythm riff butter dream…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s elephant in the room is the one ranting on about giraffes coming over here and taking our jobs… >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Isn’t butter great? Of course health-wise it’s pretty good for you, but it’s probably best not … Continue reading
Posted in brain, creation, dreaming, existentialism, food, humour, information, music, serendipity, surrealism
Tagged 4/4 rhythm, arts, captain beefheart and his magic band, celebrities, conversation, discovery, dreaming, elephant in the room, giraffes, Hillary Clinton, madness, music, serendipity, Sue Egypt, surrealism, syncopated
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Mail Art Postcard No. 4609…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s architectural term is Estipite: A type of pilaster tapering towards the base, extensively used in Spanish post-Renaissance architecture. I had some estipite pilasters in my posh withdrawing room, but I didn’t get on with all … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, architecture, art, brain, composition, dreaming, humour, information, Mail Art, postcards, serendipity, surrealism, words
Tagged advertising, architecture, art, arts, colour, conversation, dictionary word, Estipite, fish eyes, history, madness, Mail Art, photography, pilasters, poking out air bricks, Postcards, serendipity, style, surrealism, Tommy and Vera, underwater life, words
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One or two smallish items…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s Sir Arthur Conan Doyle quotation is from The Hound of the Baskervilles: Watson: For a moment or two I sat breathless, hardly able to believe my ears. Then my senses and voice came back to … Continue reading
Posted in art, books, brain, conversation, cool, Dulltown, fashion, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, observations, overheard, physics, religion, science, serendipity, surrealism, writing
Tagged art, arts, canopic jars, conversation, Dr Watson, guitar strummer, Hull - UK City of Culture 2017, Inverse square law of sound propagation, late, madness, music, observations, overheard, religion, serendipity, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, style, surrealism, The Hound of the Baskervilles, the quantum world, verdigris, writing
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Spatter Painting No. 32…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s colours are: melancholy mauve, rib-tickling red, gaunt green, puckering pink, brutal beige, and torpid tan. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It seems like ages since I last caught your attention, grabbed you by the wrist, drew you in, and … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, colours, composition, creation, information, painting, seeing, serendipity, style, surrealism
Tagged acrylic colour, art, arts, colour, fluorescent paint, madness, mother gravity, Mother Nature, on paper, painting, photography, serendipity, spatter, spatter painting, style, surrealism, today's colours, words
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK: Today’s featured fruit is the interloping mango among the tangerines in the bowl on the escritoire. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> ‘Oh, why I trap with you girl…’ ‘Evil to the seas, again!’ ‘Tell me I got a nippy…’ ‘A … Continue reading
Posted in brain, cafe, cool, creation, dreaming, existentialism, humour, information, misheard, music, poetry, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, words
Tagged art, arts, cafe song lyrics, escritoire, existential angst, fruit, interloping, madness, mango, misheard, music, nippy, poetry, scythe, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, tangerines, words
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