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Posted Apr 1, 2004
An earlier conversation with Tanzen reminded me of a poem by a friend, Kevin Higgins.
Letter To A Friend About Girls
after Philip Larkin
What losers we were when it came to girls.
"Pull up to my bumper baby, drive it in between"
played soundtrack to the wet dreams
of small, inconsequential fellas, the likes of us.
And we're talking small on an almost monumental scale.
In duffel coats and awful glasses
we shuffled around the edges of other people's parties
all through the eighties,
gawking down in the general direction
of our stupid, stupid shoes.
If charisma could be distilled,
ours would've been measured
in somewhat less than millilitres.
So small, we barely existed.
On the rare ocasions when opportunity
- the tastiest variety - put herself there
to be availed of and there was nothing for it
but to press the advantage all the way home,
we either failed to spot the most obvious signals
-our radar were useless at picking incoming aircraft up-
or else managed to inexplicably miss.
She grinned through the worst jokes
and was clearly prepared to overlook that duffel coat,
but the score on the board stubbornly somehow stayed zero.
The goal could be yawning wide open
and still the ball would either trickle
pathetically wide or go sailing miles over.
And just what exactly were we supposed to say
as another cut-price night at The Oasis declined
(with no bachelor flat to which she might be lured back)?
"Lets explore the universe with my last fifty pence piece.
If I empty my pockets perhaps I could stretch as far as a kebab."
Thats me and Kevin that is, except I didn't have a duffle coat or glasses 
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Babelogue
Posted Mar 31, 2004
I can't get on to h2g2 on my work computer tonight 
so you're spared most of the ensueing babble tonight 
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Black Books
Posted Mar 16, 2004
Bernard Black is my role model!
An anti-social alcoholic chainsmoking bookshop owner who hates to sell books!
well everyone has to have something to aim at
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A Fashion Note
Posted Mar 1, 2004
Apparently yellow is the new pink
I think I'll stick to black
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New Home
Posted Nov 8, 2003
Finally it looks as if I have a flat. Paid my deposit and just waiting for references to be checked. My parents will be able to live out their retirement without their almost middle-aged son cramping their style, a relief to all concerned I'm sure. I'll actually have my books to hand again so maybe there'll be some guide entries on the Roman Republic or the Barons Revolt, but maybe I'll just reread my favourite novels for a year or so, bliss.
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Blackberry Cat , if one wishes to remain an individual in the midst of the teeming multitudes, one must make oneself grotesque
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