Info Pimp

"Libraries are brothels for the mind. Which means that librarians are the madams, greeting punters, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping their books." Guy Browning (The Guardian column, www.guardian.co.uk 18 October 2003)

Friday, December 29, 2006

Our house, in the middle of our street.

On our street we have:

A friend on crutches down the road,
A house Bad Pauly used to live in (hey, should we put up a plaque, mister?)
Baby punks and their runaway kitten,
At least 6 stray cats that lead the kitten astray,
Everyones' favourite beer drinking jewish thespian,
A party house, complete with an off-their-chops standing invite for us to visit, and home deliveries by one well known dealer,
Pot smoking 'gothics' (Mr M's dads' words),
Many many career queers, complete with zippy little cars and dinner parties,
An opera singing bear,
*claps with glee*

Not forgetting:
A boarding house, visited recently by many cops,
A greek father and a possibly-not-the-full-quid daughter,
And a crazy cat lady who works at the fish markets.

Recently moved out:
The recently engaged Suth Efrican yuppies from next door (I think mummy sold her house), and their gorgeous pup,
And sadly I think that 'My Favourite DJ'tm has just moved out also.

But yeay!
I just noticed today - we have skinheads!
(hmm that sounds like a medical condition, said like that :-)

Real ones too eh.
I know because they didn't smile back at me on the street.
Oooh. Big tough bovver boys.

Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Sickly sweet.

A feral cat has had a litter of kittens and brought them for safekeeping to a cardboard box on the front verandah of our next door neighbour.
The kittens are white with black splotches, 3 weeks old, and sooooo goddamn cute that I just want to dip them in chocolate and eat them!

I can't believe I'm loving fluffy kittens.
I'm going all soft in my old age.
*puts head in hands*

Friday, December 15, 2006

psyched out

Is anyone else disturbed by this last paragraph from a BBC article on the 'Suffolk Strangler':

Forensic psychologist Dr Ian Stephen, who has worked on previous serial killer cases, says he thinks the murderer is likely to try to kill more women.
He said: "What may be an issue is that when he starts running out of prostitutes not becoming available, he will see any woman who's out on the street at night on their own as a prostitute and will target them as a possible victim."


Oh no.
Better make sure we don't 'run out of prostitutes'!

How horrid is that sentence eh.
He might be a psych, but he certainly doesn't have a way with words.
Bet he struggled not to say 'normal women may be targeted'.
*shakes head*