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Now here is an intriguing (if ungrammatical) headline:
Goblins attacks family, burn down homestead
Readers will be aware that I take a keen interest in goblins of all types. These ones are new to me:
Others went on to claim that snake-like creatures wearing sunglasses, a suit and a pair of shoes had been seen at the homestead.
Truly baffling. What type of snake-like being could wear shoes? Sounds like a job for Investigating Officer David Icke.
Over at my cupboard in The Dabbler this week, a four-second film clip provides the pretext for an exciting pastime that should keep you gainfully occupied for, oh, at least ten times as long.
Warning : contains withering satire on a contemporary issue.
The first of our helpful series of Tips For Young Persons is offered specifically to Shane Stoops:
1. It is neither bright nor seemly to describe oneself as a Renaissance Man.
Over at Comment Is Free, two impeccably bourgeois graduates of the grammar and public school systems and of Oxford University debate whether the total collapse of civilisation would be, on the whole, you know, a good thing. A commenter called “questionnaire” gets to the nub of its amusement value:
I love the way George [Monbiot] and Paul [Kingsnorth] are putting ‘best wishes’ and ‘all the best’ at the end of each doom scenario.
Yesterday’s Guardian reported on the trip to
The appointment of Brian Eno (aged 59) as the Liberal Democrats’ adviser to help new leader Nick Clegg (aged 40) keep in touch with Britain’s youth has caused much hilarity in blogland. I particularly liked this post which reminds us of some of Brian’s more enticing plans and projects. Yet I fear people are too quick to ridicule what is obviously a piece of visionary brilliance. Just imagine the transformation in the packs of brainless hoodies and gun-toting pre-pubescent inner city “gangstas” if, instead of being issued with Asbos, they are given a stiff dose of Oblique Strategies, innit?
