Blogadoon - poshlost

January 15th - 21st 2006

Sunday Tower Hill
Saturday Poshlost
Friday Tower Hill
Thursday Lola
Wednesday Circle Line
Tuesday Discreet
Monday Jubilee Line

Sunday 21st January

Tower Hill, Winter 2007

Saturday 20th January

I know what it means; I know what it ought to mean

Poshlost: - the sense of alienation which accompanies the realisation that you have enough money to live anywhere in the world and still have no friends.

Friday 19th January

Tower Hill, Winter 2007

Thursday 18th January

The personal ads in the London Review of Books have become cult reading, up to and including the publication of a short anthology, 'They Call Me Naughty Lola'.

(I can't help noticing they're often so busy being clever they forget to include basic data such as a specification of gender. Maybe they're above such mundane considerations?)

This one caught my eye recently:

My success as a lover is matched only by my success in the field of astronomy. Man, 37. WLTM woman to 40 with eyes as big and as bright as those stars that come up over by the trees opposite my house at about 9pm every night, then every 15 minutes or so. You know the ones. I call them the Regular Magic Tree Stars. They may be comets. Or planes. Or something. Whatever. Write, we'll have sex, you'll love it. Box no. 24/03

Wednesday 17th January

Circle Line, Autumn 2006

Tuesday 16th January

Great story about 'bespectacled British historian' Felipe Fernandez-Armesto being grappled to the ground for crossing the street in Atlanta, Georgia at the wrong time and the wrong place.

Best of all is the quote from the burly cop responsible, not entirely abashed, who admitted:

I used an excessive amount of discretion.

Monday 15th January

Jubilee Line, Autumn 2006

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