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Oh no Dave! Not blogging about blogging?…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s clever-sounding foreign word is Weltanschauung. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> When I started this blogging lark I decided that I should try to post something every day – I’m not quite sure why, but it is something creative to … Continue reading
Posted in academia, art, composition, creation, Dulltown, expletives, Hull.UK., humour, information, learning, puzzle, serendipity, spam, surrealism, swearing, words, writing
Tagged arts, blogging, clever-sounding word, Colombia, Damn!, dictionary word, discovery, dwindling, expletives, France, Gibraltar, India, Malaysia, Myanmar, Netherlands, observations, oops!, photography, religion, serendipity, Spain, spam, statistics, straight-laced, style, surrealism, swearing, Thailand, upsetting people, Weltanschauung, what's the point?, words, writing
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Yes, there was something in the night…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel King, Queen, Knave, which I re-read a few weeks ago, marking in pencil my favourite bits of Nabby’s writing. Martha, on her husband: With her whole being she … Continue reading
Posted in brain, drama, existentialism, expletives, Grumpiness, humour, information, music, puzzle, reading, story, words, writing
Tagged 1928, breaking glass, chequerboard tiles, danger, discovery, early in the morning, existential angst, King Queen Knave, mirror, mirror plates, music, serendipity, shards, smash!, something in the night, splinters, sweeping up, vladimir nabokov, words, writing
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This noisy and greasy servant…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s very nice fish names are: the Tommy Ruff, the Tidewater Gobi, the Racoon Butterfly Fish, the Snook, the Smell, and the Zebra Oto. If you were filling in a form and needed to put a … Continue reading
Posted in archeology, books, brain, finance, food, history, humour, information, instruction, learning, reading, serendipity, style, surrealism, words, writing
Tagged 1934, Badminton, dictionary word, electuaries, history, instruction, interesting fish nmaes, proverbs, serendipity, shuttlecocks, square roots, style, surrealism, The Daily Express Enquire Within, the Racoon Butterfly Fish, the smell, the Snook, the Tidewater Gobi, the Tommy Ruff, the Zebra Oto, words, words of wisdom, writing
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Mail Art Postcard No. 4788…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s quotation is from Vladimir Nabokov’s 1928 novel, King, Queen, Knave, which I re-read recently: Martha sat down at a little distance from him on a settee and lifted her foot off the floor, examining from … Continue reading
Posted in advertising, art, books, brain, celebrities, history, humour, information, postcards, puzzle, reading, serendipity, smiling, style, surrealism, TV, words, writing
Tagged 1928, advertising, art, arts, caption, celebrities, collage, colour, dictionary word, dreary, eyes, Galleries, humour, invent a word, juxtaposition, King Queen Knave, lipstick, lupins, mail art postcards, Monty Python, outstranged, red, serendipity, six eyes, strangeness, style, surrealism, The Turner Prize, TV, vladimir nabokov, What's On TV, words, writing
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A few short but pithy items…
But first… Dulltown, Europe: Today’s quotation is from the science book, Life On the Edge, by Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe McFadden, which I am currently reading. It is about the surprising role of quantum effects in the workings of biology: … Continue reading
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Tagged advertising, art, arts, BBC Licence fee, bbc world service, conversation, Doom, existential angst, expletives, I Feel Good!, instruction, James Brown, Jim Al-Khalili and Johnjoe Mc Fadden, late, Life on the Edge, madness, music, name change, observations, overheard, serendipity, style, surrealism, The Power, the quantum world, TV, words, writing
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Fresh spam!… Fresh spam!…
But first… Dulltown, UK/Europe: Today’s weather will feature snotty outbursts from the east, rumbles from the north, fresh but smelly gusts from the south, and the sound of mass cheering from the west. >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> I suppose most people hate it … Continue reading
Posted in abstract, advertising, brain, composition, cool, dreaming, existentialism, humour, information, instruction, learning, poetry, puzzle, reading, serendipity, smiling, spam, style, surrealism, weather, words, writing
Tagged advertising, arts, dictionary word, discovery, golf hints, madness, mass cheering, poetry, rumbles, serendipity, smelly gusts, snotty outbursts, spam, style, surrealism, swigs of water, teeth staining, today's weather, undenizbly, weather, words, writing
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