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The Thistle As A Spider’s Web

  Omsk and the Calton turn again to dust, The suns and stars fizz out with little fuss, The bobby booms away and seems to bust, And leaves the world to darkness and to us….


Peep Show Boys

  Samples from Peep Show stramashed with Pet Shop Boys’  ‘One More Chance.’ Inspired by this post by David Quantick. Pic by Paul TM EU Wafels (Stroop) see also:  



Omeprazole

  When you clear your throat and you just can’t stop You need omeprazole to help your cough If you’ve got Barrett’s oesophagus Omeprazole for your acid reflux So when your doctor says to you…




Metaphysical Pictures Of The Thistle (II)

  O rootless thistle through the warld that’s pairt o’ you, Gin you’d withstand the agonies still to come, You maun send roots doon to the deeps unkent, Fer deeper than it’s possible for ocht…


Penda! Penda! Penda!

Mark E Smith and The Fall meet Elgar and Fenda’s Pen. Tracks: Sermon Who Was Jesus? The Earth Beneath Your Feet Enigramatic Dream Variation Gerontius Manichaeanism V Rector Mud And Flame Penda’s Fall The Piercing…


Metaphysical Pictures of the Thistle (I)

  I tae ha’e heard Eternity drip water (Aye water, water!), drap by drap On the a’e nerve, like lichtnin’, I’ve become, And heard God passin’ wi’ a bobby’s feet Ootby in the lang coffin…


Ed Sheeran’s Pollock Homage

  He thinks somehow that splashing paint on canvas is a laugh He thinks someone will really buy it for his autograph I think I don’t know much about art But I wouldn’t hang it…