Doppelgangers part 3

Lucho Cristaldo


Iggy Pop


Eric Roberts

Doppelgangers part 2

Felipe VI de España


Assad of Syria

Doppelgangers part 1

Juanfran "El Churrero"


Kush from Eastenders

Annual Punishment

Jan you are a fib Rhuaridh. My arch ape real may dune duly. A gust set timber auk to bear. No fen ember, tea zen bare.

Cyber Schizophrenia

People often wonder if a tree falls in the woods and nobody is there, does it make any sound? My thought is if a blogger blogs in cyberspace and nobody reads it, does the blogger truly blog? Surely blogging must be interactive, otherwise is it not merely journalling?

The morning shift.

Catching a glimpse of a fox crossing a road.
Queuing for a McDonald's breakfast behind a fleet of blue toothed up cabbies.
Traffic cones being gathered after night road closures.
Inane or prerecorded radio broadcasts.
Morning papers still strapped in plastic in a pile on the pavement.
Street cleaning machines sweeping up yesterday's detritus in rapidly spinning bristles on spindles.
The chirping of the dawn chorus.
The sun presenting its glorious and powerful rays to a new day filled with hope and potential.

All of these things are signs witnessed at the crack of dawn. An extra few hours of kip and you'd be none the wiser, but the activities would have all taken place.

Lorne sausage beats old banger, but who really wins?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nQgNxIeM4c8

Alex Salmond could not convince everyone in the referendum, but ultimately Cameron and Milliband connived and bumbled respectively to get SNP elected in Scotland. The only problem for anyone on the progressive side of politics south of Hadrian's Wall is that fear mongering worked in favour of smarm's just call me Dave. A curious punishment vote punished the lesser part of the coalition, typical bullying tactics were employed by the British electorate and target the weakest - almost to elimination. What will happen in the next five years? Who knows? I'll take Oor Wullie over Jeeves and Wooster any day.

Capitalism conquers over dated 2D gaming franchise.

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Money talks, as well as eating or spooking apparently.

Back to the old cherries, white full stops and power up coins for battered old pac man.

There are rumours pong wants to challenge trade unionism in the next unfeasible match up. I wonder what the T-shirts will look like? In fact I even doubt whether there are pugilists who fight under such naff pseudonyms. Some bright spark probably just made thelatest rumour up to generate hype or perpetuate indifference, depending on one's stance on blood sports.

May Day, do you need rescuing from the Green Man?

It's curious how the same letters or words can mean such different things. Case in point: May Day means the first day of the fifth month or it's a distress signal.
Curious: inquisitive or strange.
Outstanding: fantastic or yet to be finished.
Stranger: more unusual or an unknown person.
Isn't context such a great thing?

2 bee con tin newt......

Apathy in the UK.

With wall to wall coverage of the elect and the elite saying how they'd change the country for the better, we know where we're living: "Electionland". Don't forget to pick up your rose tinted spectacles, salt cellar and dicta phone as you enter this fairy tale kingdom.
The rose tinted spectacles to see the future like the candidates. Maybe a Kaleidoscope would give a truer image.
The salt cellar so that you can quickly grab a pinch when trying to believe the whoppers that the would be Rt Hon or wannabe Right On is telling you.
The dicta phone to record all the what you want to hear promises and dictat that is being spouted forth and then you can replay it to yourself or the perpetrators in 4 or 5 year's time when you're playing broken pledge bingo when the latest monotonist manifesto is published.
Party political broadcasts ad nauseum; I'd rather no had seen 'em!
Is it any wonder that the largest swing in recent times has been towards apathy? With all these cons n roses, the public has no appetite for election!

Hybrid scran

We appear to be in the dawning of the age of miscellaneous; well in food nomenclature anyway. Recently I've heard of "DUFFINS", "CHEESE N BURGER" and various other misnomers, which I might list should they come to mind. I have noticed that instead of giving the new product a new name, the what some think of as zany but is probably just lazy option of a port manteau is de rigeur. The problem with this option is that would be copiers can use the discarded parts of each word and churn out "MUNUTS", "MOUGHNUTS" or other shodworthy monikers without breaching trademarks. I invite other examples of these hybrid/mongrel food names which have cropped up in recent times. For example "MOCKTAIL" has just come to mind.

Dèja food?

Has one seen this culinary delight before?

Boxing clever? Surely not.

Well, it has been some time since I put finger to keyboard and made the effort to post owt on this here blog. I would appear to have been living in exile from the so-called "blogisphere"(sp?).
I ain't no fan of the old Marquess of Queensbury rules, but a follower of sport in general. I see that there's gonna be a massive bout coming up between Pac-Man and Money. Now that is one freakish fight. If there were to be a real fight between manifestations of these entities,  I'd put my dosh on the pie chart shaped one chomping capitalism's bread and butter.
Now it's very apt that one of these pugilists goes under the moniker of Money as that is what this fight is all about. In the USA fight fans will have to fork out 100 bucks per household for the pleasure of watching 2 blokes knocking 10 bells out of each other. Contrast that with the UK where boxing nuts only need the considerably paltry sum of 20 quid. Knock me down with a feather! I never thought I'd see the day when SKY seem to be offering something which could be considered a bargain. Don't matter to me though, no way I'll be watching that nonsense!