Sunday 22 December 2013

Annotations. A6. pp.1-24.


(1) BOOZE.                UTTER BOOZE.

(2)                             4-T.S. [4 tine spork]
                                4. S.T. [ 4 slice toaster]
1.5L.K. [1.5 litre kettle]     T.C.K. [Turkish coffee kettle]
(3) ABrade
     CoulDn't be arsed
     EFfing heck
(4) Gammy Hammy
     I Just need a little sit-down
    KilL me now.
(5) MeNaced
    OPening time
   Quite Right too
(6) STandard issue
    UnVarnished
   WaXy walnut lump
  Ya Zis is correct

(7) this blasted tree on a hill.
    that blasted tree on a hill.

(8) 2 memories:
a curtain depicting cowboys and indians in a western landscape. Was it stylised spare pictograms in faded colours, or a primarycoloured cartoonish graphic crowding of jolly images? Our bedroom window (it was bow-, with bench seating space for stash'neath) curtained brightly, yes, a 1970s British skit on The West.
Chuck Heston's caravan curtain in the Greatest Show On Earth a more Americana-than-thou instance of the same myth imagery. His coffee-heating , talent-handling (and snogging), private space separated from the child-awe bustle of carnie-life by that layer of child-awed set of symbols as folk art soft furnishing.

(9) A GODHILL ALLOWING FOR ALL SORTS OF NATURE SYMBOL WORSHIP RITES.
--
RIGHT
FOOT
STRAIGHTER
AND MORE
EVENLY
PROPORTIONED
THAN ANY
FOOT
OUGHT BE.
WITH BEAUTY
SPOT ON THE
LITTLE. OOH
LA LA.

(10) a tent on a hill from which one can strike out to perform local rituals or shelter from punishments meted out by capricious gods of that jurisdiction.

(11) mug of tea hitting the spot.

(12) THE OLD DRAWING CLAW.
--
romantic montage of c-u's a
la D. Sutherland
   J. Christie
in DON'T LOOK NOW               cept Diplodicus'[i]

(13) um.er. urgh.
er. grrh.
um, eehk.
several one washer(s) to bind them all.

(14) AFFIX.
1. HAT
2. L.SLEEVE
3. L. TREWS [& c-b. boots]
4. see 2.
FIND AND REPLACE
SPATULATE.    LEFT WING
                          = DESERT

(15) V.MATURE 2. I DONT WANNA BE A BEAR. 1. YOU ARE A BEAR.

(16) really
       rather
       decor
       ative
      porchframe

(17) PAINTED SHINGLE.
FOLKED   cola   WOODEN
PLAIN     de        TOOLED
PRACTIC milano DECORA
AL                       TIVE

(18) Fig. (a)   something
              (b)
              (c) something else
              (d)
              (e)   Figs (a)-(e) FRAMED
                                       THING
                                       S IN FR
                                       AMES

(19) SELF PORTRAIT IN THE NIP WITH BURGEONING QUATERMASS LIMBS.
POSSIBLY APPLYING COCONUT BUTTERS TO SUNBURN.[c.&b. unq'd]
WHILST LISTENING TO JOY DIVISION.
'SHE'S LOST CONTROL AGAIN' WHERE 'SHE' COULD MEAN MY MUTANT ARM(S).
PHYSIO INSISTS MY QUADS ARE TOO DOMINANT.
IS "TOO DOMINANT" LIKE SAYING "THIS KEBAB IS TOO GREASY?".
BAD EXAMPLE.
  
(20) SHINGLED AS WOODFACED ARMY
OF BEARS, CATS OR SUCH LIKE.

(21)                                                              THE UTTER QUADRANT
CONGRATULATIONS. THIS IS THE 2MI
LLIONTH GLASS OF
BEER YOU HAVE SKETCHED.
YOU WIN A GLASS OF DARK STAR A.P.A. TO SKETCH QUAFF             

(22) IDONTWANTTOBEABEAR
YOU ARE A BEAR
IN THE WOODS.
BUT NOT CURRENTLY PERISTALSIS.
OTHER WAYS OF MARKING TERRITORY INCLUDE
SIGNATURE WOODWORK          FIT A FANCY DADO RAIL

(23) OH STEPHEN.
OH ENABLER OF STEPHEN.
--
THIS SORT OF MIDR
IFF C-U USED A LOT
BY J.F. IN T. SEARCHERS.

THE DUKES GRACEFUL
HANDS APT AT HARSHNESSES

(24) Bears I don't want to be either.
        But am.

GRIZZLY BEAR. BLACK BEAR.
B E A R BEAR B E A R BEAR
blue branchy crossing out maybe       

Sunday 25 August 2013

American soul in less than 237 pages/years (an equation in hunt for the Great American Novel(la))

1776 = Y= 1; 2013 = Y = 237

Y= 74
pp. = 180
The Scarlet Letter / Hawthorne

Y=118
pp. = 128
Puddn'head Wilson / Twain

Y = 104
pp. = 176
Washington Square / James

Y =137
pp. = 128
O Pioneers! / Cather

Y = 149
pp. = 218
The Great Gatsby / Fitzgerald

Y = 163
pp. = 192
The Day of the Locust / West

Y = 175
pp. = 214
Catcher in the Rye / Salinger

Y= 176
pp. = 224
The Natural / Malamud

Y = 180
pp. = 128
Seize the day / Bellow

Y = 188
pp. = 96
77 Dream Songs / Berryman

Y= 194
pp. = 190
Desperate characters / Fox

Y = 199
pp. = 236
Ragtime / Doctorow

Y= 204
pp. = 219
Housekeeping / Robinson

Y = 206
pp. = 224
Dead-eye Dick / Vonnegut

Y = 208
pp. = 176
Democracy / Didion

Y = 212
pp.= 226
Tracks / Erdrich

Y = 218
pp. = 160
Black Water / Oates

Sunday 10 March 2013

The human banjo, plucking himself from obscurity



Cole Porteresqscatology (Cole Pordure?)
[to a jaunty tune with a debonair vocal]

what comes out the bum
it used to be yum
a change that just flum
moxes me


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Tarte tatin tourrettes

Roll out pastry, prick.
Brush with eggy wash, twat
repeat a minute later
smear with apple sauce
arrange fan of thincut apple slices
brush with melted butter
sprinkle with caster sugar
25-30 mins baking, 1 hour cooling
crème fraiche and cinnamon
wanker
wrong recipe, bollocks.