Cheers folks!
Tuesday, August 01, 2006
Working through my collection of opening lines
Joe's asked me this before, but I thought I best clarify. Having always admired Reidski's habit of labelling his posts with song titles (damn: can't nick that great idea...) I thought I would take the recent 25 lines meme as an inspiration to keep trawling the archive.
Hence: "Opening Line".
Now I have already given you one where the song title was in the lyric I gave (Doh!), though luckily it was one of the 'obscure' tracks so that didn't matter so much (though as I say: it's only obscure if you don't know it...). But it has raised the question of 'obscurity' with pleas from several - and Joe is not alone in this - for better known tracks.
Well, shucks folks! That is really difficult to predict. In many instances, I have gone with a track that was uppermost in my mind on the day in question. Sometimes this was because I played it; sometimes because I was thinking about tracks in my collection. I'm not trying to be complicated, honest!
Over time, I suspect most of you will find something you COULD have gotten even if you lack the broadband connection or having dropped by here to have picked it up in time. But I think I can safely say that at SOME point, everyone will have had a shot at 'glory'. And it's not as if there are prizes...
Or should there be prizes?
At the end of the year say?
Hence: "Opening Line".
Now I have already given you one where the song title was in the lyric I gave (Doh!), though luckily it was one of the 'obscure' tracks so that didn't matter so much (though as I say: it's only obscure if you don't know it...). But it has raised the question of 'obscurity' with pleas from several - and Joe is not alone in this - for better known tracks.
Well, shucks folks! That is really difficult to predict. In many instances, I have gone with a track that was uppermost in my mind on the day in question. Sometimes this was because I played it; sometimes because I was thinking about tracks in my collection. I'm not trying to be complicated, honest!
Over time, I suspect most of you will find something you COULD have gotten even if you lack the broadband connection or having dropped by here to have picked it up in time. But I think I can safely say that at SOME point, everyone will have had a shot at 'glory'. And it's not as if there are prizes...
Or should there be prizes?
At the end of the year say?
Opening line: 1 August 2006
"You can keep the good times, righteousness, the best parting line"
Ah, I like doing these line posts: they remind me of all the great music I love...
Name and artiste as ever please...
Ah, I like doing these line posts: they remind me of all the great music I love...
Name and artiste as ever please...
Monday, July 31, 2006
Opening Line: 31 July 2006
"We've laid the cables and the wires"
Best alliteration in a song: ever. Name that song and the artiste...
UPDATE: George, of course got this... pre-emptive reader! We'll be back shortly...
Best alliteration in a song: ever. Name that song and the artiste...
UPDATE: George, of course got this... pre-emptive reader! We'll be back shortly...
Sunday, July 30, 2006
Opening Line: 30 July 2006
"Best of all...all the things in this world that's worth a look"
Never fails to make me cry.... If you don't know this song, find it, listen to it and treasure it. It's a gem.
Name of song and artiste?
Never fails to make me cry.... If you don't know this song, find it, listen to it and treasure it. It's a gem.
Name of song and artiste?
Saturday, July 29, 2006
Opening Line: 29 July 2006
"I was never cool in school"
Come on... I know at least ONE person who will get this instantly!
Name that song and artiste...
UPDATE: and the credit... well, let's say Marie gets FIRST prize and Anna gets to harrass her dad for Broadband access...
Come on... I know at least ONE person who will get this instantly!
Name that song and artiste...
UPDATE: and the credit... well, let's say Marie gets FIRST prize and Anna gets to harrass her dad for Broadband access...
Friday, July 28, 2006
An only child
Not like me at all.
The only child is self-assured from all that attention and selfcritical from all that scrutiny; sure of his opinion but loth to raise his voice to make it heard.Especially not that last bit...
...
Heather Jones, the head of Highclare junior school, says of the only children in her care, "We don't notice a difference in terms of them being bossy or selfish. Their concentration span is greater because they're used to sitting down and completing something. They are more confident in their relationships with adults. They are self-assured and articulate. They are oversensitive sometimes, and some of the parents of only children do ..." she struggles to be diplomatic, "...overreact to things the girls say have happened at playtime, whereas the parents of bigger families aren't so focused on the troubles of one little person."
"I think if you've got older brothers or sisters, you take the knocks," says Georgina's mother, Gill. "They say awful things to you and you walk away and forget it. Whereas with Georgina, a week doesn't go by when I don't get her off the bus and she says, you'll never guess what so-and-so said to me."
"Everything is very serious when you're an only child," Joanna says. "If you get a criticism, it's the end of the world - it's a disaster. Things reach a crisis very quickly over relatively minor things. You're the apple of everybody's eye, and so when somebody says something nasty, you take it to heart."
There is the problem of perfectionism; only children are always comparing themselves to people who are bigger and more accomplished and it can introduce a kind of precocious performance anxiety. During school assembly, Joanna says, Martha gets very anxious about other children not knowing their lines. "She will take on accountability for things that are really nothing to do with her."
Preloaded posts
You may spot some pre-loaded posts for the next few days. Bear with me, we're having a little trip away.
Queen for a day
Just such a heart-warming tale. Girls reject being a carnival queen and a gay boy wants the job. And gets it.
Hard to know whether to hug those who awarded the role to him, the boy himself, or the girls who refused to play ball on being expected to like being carnival queens. How about everybody gets a hug.
But probably not the dip who thinks that using the phrase "political correctness gone mad" still constitutes a well-thought through argument.
Tale courtesy of my new-relocated obsession with Shakespeare's Sister. I can scarcely keep up with all their posts, but when I do it is worth it!
Hard to know whether to hug those who awarded the role to him, the boy himself, or the girls who refused to play ball on being expected to like being carnival queens. How about everybody gets a hug.
But probably not the dip who thinks that using the phrase "political correctness gone mad" still constitutes a well-thought through argument.
Tale courtesy of my new-relocated obsession with Shakespeare's Sister. I can scarcely keep up with all their posts, but when I do it is worth it!
Opening Line: 28 July 2006
"You called me last night on the telephone"
Awh, I LOVE this song.... Anyone know where this comes from?
UPDATE: awh shucks, sorry Moo! Cloudy Neil got this on the second attempt... Teenage Kicks? Really?! As evry ful know that begins with the immortal line "A teenage dream's so hard to beat, every time she walks down the street"
Awh, I LOVE this song.... Anyone know where this comes from?
UPDATE: awh shucks, sorry Moo! Cloudy Neil got this on the second attempt... Teenage Kicks? Really?! As evry ful know that begins with the immortal line "A teenage dream's so hard to beat, every time she walks down the street"
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Praise for Five Leaves
Great to read in the Guardian by David McKie a bit more about the wonderful Five Leaves press (based in Nottingham). They are such a fab press and we pretty raided everything we could afford by them at the Lowdham Book Festival recently.
And if you're reading this, I haven't forgotten our email exchange but work has been a little frantic. I'll be getting back to you shortly...
And if you're reading this, I haven't forgotten our email exchange but work has been a little frantic. I'll be getting back to you shortly...
Humour
Yet again Shakespeare's Sister come up with the goods. We can all pick fault in other people's sense of humour, but this is one of the best analyses of what is and isn't fair game in humour that I have read in a long time.
Of course there are some readers here who will fail to see the point and will probably make some intentionally offensive remark in response. A bit like, ooh, I don't know, perhaps a certain commentor on my last post from Shakespeare's Sister...
We would say you too are fair game, but frankly you're not worth it.
Of course there are some readers here who will fail to see the point and will probably make some intentionally offensive remark in response. A bit like, ooh, I don't know, perhaps a certain commentor on my last post from Shakespeare's Sister...
We would say you too are fair game, but frankly you're not worth it.
Crossing the line
Great post over at Shakespeare's Sister that should have you raging. Legislation has just been introduced that would make it a federal crime to help an under-age girl escape parental notification laws by crossing state lines to obtain an abortion.
There are SO many things wrong with that law that it is hard to know where to start. Thankfully we have the articulate crew at Shakespeare's Sister to help out.
There are SO many things wrong with that law that it is hard to know where to start. Thankfully we have the articulate crew at Shakespeare's Sister to help out.
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