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I'd have to say Deborah that I'm not a believer in UFO's, by that I mean an extra-terrestrial intelligent lifeform explanation for them. That there's life out there, I've no doubt, even within our own Solar System there's still a chance. Mars isn'...
Speaking of "The Iliad," the opening lines of the poem have always struck me. "Sing, O goddess, the anger of Achilles son of Peleus, that brought countless ills upon the Achaeans."
1. To see what was inside the UFO that hovered over the soccer field on Old Rt. 32 for a few minutes in 82.
2. To remember what I forgot when I stepped out of the River Jordan after hugging Jesus.
3. To make-up for what I couldn't do back when i...
You don't have to be a Dr Who fan to find this funny, the late, great, Spike Milligan.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0n88tZQc4Q
I've always been a sucker for the female voice, as you might have gathered.
You might not be a fan of ABBA songs, but their melodies are for all time, and when a young lady with a voice like this sings one.... it's magic.
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I'm sort of sympathetic to this... because what is it about spiders that instills such fear ? But my Mum used to tell me... "They're not pretty, but they are little housekeepers, they kill flies."
Upon thinking about these words I've grown immune ...
"cat-piss fluorescents"
best fucking description I've ever heard.
The great big stories in the Sky ... (although the graphics need some work).
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- errr...(where's that script ?) ..... ahhh ... found it.
I've scrubbed the Robert. When someone calls me that, they're inevitably trying to sell me something.
I like motorcycles, mountains, computers (even the one that persistently beats me at chess, I mean, I can always tell it 'My hands on the on/off button smartarse...).
Some favourite authors/books (like any list, this is incomplete):
Early Len Deighton (Ipcress File, Funeral in Berlin). In those days Deighton was the Chandler of the spy genre.
Alfred Bester (The Stars my Destination), possibly the greatest SciFi book ever written.
Frank Herbert (Dune) vies with the above for the title.
William Horwood (Duncton Wood) on a par with Tolkien.
Cormac McCarthy. Dark and brooding.
ahhh there's too many to list.....
I also like motorcycles (cough).
Then there's reading, films, books, samurai swords, pub chat and of course ... the beer that goes with it and walking, mile after mile where necessary.
Did I mention motorcycles ? .....
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The space shuttle Atlantis and Hubble telescope set against a truly mighty Sun.
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I suppose my mum being Irish has genetically implanted a liking for this music ... but it's so good I can't get my head around it.... I don't know of any instrument that can touch the soul quite like the uilleann pipes.
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The space shuttle Atlantis and Hubble telescope set against a truly mighty Sun.
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I suppose my mum being Irish has genetically implanted a liking for this music ... but it's so good I can't get my head around it.... I don't know of any instrument that can touch the soul quite like the uilleann pipes.
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Bob Clay Challenge: Six Unfulfilled Ambitions (Pardon my French)
(This isn't part of the six sentences ok ... it's a statement of the rules:
Rule 1: There aint no fucking rules.
Rule 2: Goto to Rule 1)
OK, here we go:
1: To stand next to Napoleon at about teatime on the day of Waterloo, nudge him in the ribs and say: “If I were you, I'd fuck off about now.”
2: To take Kim Basinger out for a fish supper and a couple of pints and then spend a night under a duvet laughing and giggling.
3: To watch a Saturn V lift off for the Moon.
4: To climb the North Face… Continue
Rule 1: There aint no fucking rules.
Rule 2: Goto to Rule 1)
OK, here we go:
1: To stand next to Napoleon at about teatime on the day of Waterloo, nudge him in the ribs and say: “If I were you, I'd fuck off about now.”
2: To take Kim Basinger out for a fish supper and a couple of pints and then spend a night under a duvet laughing and giggling.
3: To watch a Saturn V lift off for the Moon.
4: To climb the North Face… Continue
Posted on November 21, 2009 at 7:00pm — 3 Comments
Burning City
On the hundredth day of his walk, Kaylan awoke from a fitful sleep to see a burning city in the sky. He blinked his eyes a couple of times, thinking he might clear the leftover cobwebs of a dream, but the city still burned. He got up off the hard surface of the escarpment and stamped his feet against the cold, then he looked up. The city was still there.
It was thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of metres above him, an enormous rectangle with four great towers climbing up from each corner, not… Continue
It was thousands, perhaps tens of thousands of metres above him, an enormous rectangle with four great towers climbing up from each corner, not… Continue
Posted on November 15, 2009 at 4:47am — 2 Comments
No Future
“What future we do have ?” she asked, with eyes that you could fall into a thousand times over, and still leave room for a heaven, and a hell.
“We don't,” I told her, feeling my heart turn into a stone. “We're too different, for us there is only sadness and heartbreak.”
“Then I'll take it,” she said with voice that sounded like a distant cry of distress. “I will have no life without you.”
“I know, “ I answered as I leaned forward to kiss her, my canine teeth extending as my lips moved near to… Continue
“We don't,” I told her, feeling my heart turn into a stone. “We're too different, for us there is only sadness and heartbreak.”
“Then I'll take it,” she said with voice that sounded like a distant cry of distress. “I will have no life without you.”
“I know, “ I answered as I leaned forward to kiss her, my canine teeth extending as my lips moved near to… Continue
Posted on November 14, 2009 at 5:26pm — 2 Comments
Last Day
Deathbed.
Final thoughts.
Did I do anything ?
Does it matter ?
Fuck it, time's up.
Game over.
Final thoughts.
Did I do anything ?
Does it matter ?
Fuck it, time's up.
Game over.
Posted on November 13, 2009 at 5:57pm — 11 Comments
A Hell of a Way To Go
Chief Inspector Reficul Natas had spent three days investigating the murder, before he gathered all seven suspects into the drawing room of that old Tudor mansion buried out in one of those forgotten rural Oxfordshire backwaters that had somehow managed to fall off the map.
There was a young couple, an elderly couple, the compulsory teenage girl and a couple of grumpy old men, a fairly typical bunch for a mansion murder.
“This is a bit of a cliché isn't it Inspector, gathering us all in the dr… Continue
There was a young couple, an elderly couple, the compulsory teenage girl and a couple of grumpy old men, a fairly typical bunch for a mansion murder.
“This is a bit of a cliché isn't it Inspector, gathering us all in the dr… Continue
Posted on November 6, 2009 at 3:51pm — 5 Comments
Comment Wall (30 comments)
- At 9:11pm on October 21, 2009,
Amy O. said… - Thanks Bob. :) I appreciate the comment.
- At 6:36pm on October 18, 2009,
Ann Mintz said… - All dog stories end unhappily,sooner or later.
And who was it who said that matter might turn out to be nothing but a local anomoly?
- At 2:03am on October 17, 2009,
KAWFEEEE! said… - Sorry for the one-mess-fits-all, but I got blisters on my fingers tryin' to get the latest word out to y'all so you can help me live in a manner to which I'd like to become accustomed.
Hot off the cyber press, 20 years in the making (gawd, I'm not a very prolific writer, am I?) I finally got it done.
...The Twain Shall Meet, by: yours truly
"If you're a Twain fan you'll love it. If not, you will be"
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/4837
And if you act now I'll include my gastrointestinal gourmet cookbook, absolutely free (if you don't already have it). but wait, there's more.... free weekend in Manila -- bring your own dinghy.
KAWFEEE
- At 12:48pm on October 5, 2009,
Jim Eigo said… - Thanks, Bob, for the comment and for the extra effort it took to reconstruct.
- At 4:14pm on October 3, 2009,
Jim Eigo said…
- Hey Bob--Yesterday you left a comment on my blog Olive Olive (a jimmysong). While I was reading it a few minutes ago, I thini I mistakenly deleted it! This was unintentional I assure you. If you have a copy of the comment, I would love you to send it again so I can read the whole thing. Thanks for reading.
- At 7:29am on September 30, 2009,
Peter McNiff said… - Many thanks for your comments on Railway Encounters. I used to stand on railway bridges to suck in the steam of passing trains. Sure beat glue sniffing.
- At 7:27pm on September 23, 2009,
alisa rynay haller said… - hey bob, good to see your face again on my friends list.
- At 8:24pm on September 16, 2009,
alisa rynay haller said…
- gentlemen gentlemen, there's enough of me to go around. So am i sending mud or whipped cream.
smooches
- At 6:59pm on September 16, 2009,
Edward Dean said… - Touche' Bob.
There is something about English irreverants that always seems to tickle my psyche. Gods forbid I was English in a past life because I would be organizing a rowing crew to paddle that little island in the sun down to the Mediterranean.
Shaskespeare, Newton and Darwin, non withstanding, where does the mindset come from?
I would love to read a book about the true English spirit. I don't think the world understands the Brits. I think there is a novel in this for you. If you write it, I only want my usual agency fee of 15% and an into to JK.
you have a gift my friend for metaphors and analogys. I would love to hear the voice of a crime reporter or Dick do the an English cronology.
Just some thoughts.
- At 5:14pm on September 16, 2009,
alisa rynay haller said…
- GO BOB GO. seriously, this is a bit ridiculous don't ya think? We've got a writer who writes about s&M, some about abortion clinics, I guess telling a tale about a person that can't right is TABOO.
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