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Just a few shortish items…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s confused film stars are: Lela Bugosi and Luce Bree. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> Excuses for being late. No. 417. I’m sorry I’m late, but I found that I had a screw loose. A single overheard remark: ‘It was … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, advertising, brain, conversation, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, Hull.UK., humour, information, observations, overheard, poetry, reading, serendipity, surrealism, theatre, words, writing
Tagged advertising, BBC radio news, Bela Lugosi, breathtaking tips, Bruce Lee, Confused film stars, conversation, discovery, Frida Kahlo, haps, How I've Suffered!, madness, mishaps, name change, observations, overheard, poetry, serendipity, spam, style, surrealism, Theatre talk, tormentor, twaddle, words, writing
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Some song lyrics misheard over the cafe hubbub…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s dictionary words are: tymp, harmattan, creance, isobase, atwain, and quatch-buttock. Please have these words looked up and placed in suitable sentences ready for Professor Mouldie first thing after breakfast tomorrow morning. Should the professor turn … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, academia, brain, cafe, cool, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, humour, information, misheard, music, poetry, puzzle, serendipity, sex, surrealism, words
Tagged a walking tray, arts, Cruella de Vil, dictionary word, dictionary words, discovery, hippy tapes, Lady White, madness, misheard, misheard song lyrics, music, poetry, Profdessor Mouldie, Professor Mouldie, serendipity, sex, style, surrealism, whumpty, words
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The bus driver…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from the Vladimir Nabokov novel King, Queen, Knave (1928), which I am currently re-reading: While looking sideways out of the window she yawned; he (Franz) glimpsed the swell of her tense tongue in … Continue reading
Posted in books, drama, Dulltown, existentialism, Hull.UK., humour, jobs, music, observations, people, reading, serendipity, sex, smiling, words, writing
Tagged 1928, arts, bus ride, conversation, Dulltown Interchange, expletives, Franz, Hey Jude, King Queen Knave, miserable buggers, music, observations, on the bus, Seasons in the sun, serendipity, sex, singing bus driver, single-decker, transportation, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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A premonition – Trump behind bars…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s existential angst is centred around the sound of the word giddy. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When visiting town I often walk past a hotel, a typical modern cheap-looking building, part of a nationwide chain of such drab things. … Continue reading
Posted in architecture, brain, celebrities, colours, composition, cool, dreaming, Dulltown, existentialism, Hull.UK., humour, observations, photography, puzzle, seeing, serendipity, surrealism, words
Tagged architecture, arts, celebrities, cheap-looking, colour, dictionary word, discovery, Donald J Trump, existential angst, giddy, golden hair, madness, observations, photography, serendipity, simulacrum, surrealism, thatch, ugly hotel, windswept, words
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Some opening lines for stories never to be written…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s confused film stars are: Gel Mibson and Smaggie Mith. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> It was their first house purchase, a modest two bedroom red brick terraced house in a run-down part of town, but Rudolph and Betty Cubbs … Continue reading
Posted in celebrities, creation, drama, humour, information, magic, people, phones, puzzle, surrealism, swearing, writing
Tagged arts, Confused film stars, discovery, expletives, familiar, ginger beards, High Wizard, jackdaw, M. R. James, madness, Maggie Smith, Mel Gibson, molten lava, never to be written, opening lines, religion, sink-hole, style, surrealism, words, writing
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A bit of science in the cafe…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s carefully selected colours are: Bodmin brown, Vancouver violet, Tallahassee turquoise, Minsk mauve, Bulawayo blue, Osaka orange, and Reykjavik red. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When preparing to drink tea in the cafe I usually take the teabag (green) out … Continue reading
Posted in adjectives, brain, cafe, celebrities, colours, humour, information, learning, observations, physics, puzzle, science, thinking, words
Tagged Bodmin, Bulawayo, celebrities, colour, conversation, dictionary word, discovery, green tea, Holmes and Watson, meershaum, Minsk, observations, Osaka, osmosis, physics, Reykjavik, science, serendipity, syphon, Tallahassee, tobacco, Vancouver, words
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Mail art postcard. No. 4781…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from the Vladimir Nabokov novel King, Queen, Knave (1928), which I am currently re-reading: It was warm in the room where around the aged chandelier, with grey little glass pendants like dirty icicles, … Continue reading
Posted in art, brain, colours, composition, cool, creation, humour, information, Mail Art, mind, postcards, puzzle, reading, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, swearing, TV, words, writing
Tagged advertising, art, arts, bask, collage, colour, discovery, fluorescent card, fuchsia baskets, gardeners, juxtaposition, King Queen Knave, serendipity, surrealism, TV, vladimir nabokov, What's On TV, words, writing
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