Jimmy Saville

Everyone seems to agree that Jimmy Saville was a completely uncharismatic, untalented, immature, absurd, drivelling wanker, so how on earth did his career take him to such heights? Nobody has expressed surprise that he’s been accused of being a scumbag paedo. Nowadays he wouldn’t even make it to the auditions of Britain’s Got Talent, so what on earth went on behind the scenes that his career flourished?

Boogeyman's Visit

This is why the boogeyman is ticked off and retired. Happy Holloween writing friends!

A half hour telephone conversation

You crack jokes about tumours and drugs and what my mother would think if I told her you're in a wheelchair. You've been arrested twice in the past month and when you talk to me

Storyville: American Idol-Reagan. BBC 2

An alcoholic salesman for a father, whose family lived in poverty and they were saved from destitution by Roosevelt’s New Deal. Reagan goes onto become a life guard and saves 17 lives. He becomes a radio announcer, the lead actor in Hollywood B movies. He moves into politics and becomes the president of the screen actors’ guild. He doesn’t give names before the Senate investigation into un-American activities. In fact his refusal to give names...

STOP, LOOK and LISTEN!!! Alice Cooper at Aquinas High School, Southgate, Michigan (69-70ish)

My travels within the colourful land of creepy-crawly Lilliput were sonically interrupted by my neighbor and girlfriend Julie. “Mischa! Mischa!”

A clear autumn afternoon

The fog has lifted, autumn colours glow and warm, crisp, crunchy footfall on the ground, then far away glint pale grey silhouettes – Welsh hills against the golden clouds,

The Design Question

Why I love making furniture, by KJDonovan, 55 and a half......

draft pome - Visit from the Auditors

T.P left me his auditors; who came to check the books, in numbers large and magical, they pondered in black soot. The tales of them are legendary, the hearses are all arrayed

Part 1 - Beginning in the End

He had changed the world in his day; it seemed strange to leave it now so unnoticed.

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