Sinister: cartoon of a curmudgeon

[gogron]

Hello.

I've never heard of the powerpuff girls. When I was wee and, actually,
far older than that (if still short), my preference was for
stop-animation puppet shows. My favourite was a one-off feature whose
name escapes me. It involved a bicycle repair [puppet] man called Sonny
Duckworth who lived and worked at the summit of one of those hills whose
vertiginousness one only encounters in fantasy (and Meteora and perhaps
in China too). Sonny would have a whale of a time riding up and down the
road which spiralled around the hill in his motorised tricycle, probably
with a pet puppet riding pillion, but his dream was to build a racing
car and win the grand prix... It was all the beautifully made model sets
that inspired me, and I spent ages with bits of wood, sheets of tin and
the wrong type of glue trying to build my own version of the racing car
which, after some dastardley and mutley type shenanigans from the
opposition, won our puppet and his pet puppet the race.

Wars
I suppose it is natural at a time of conflict in the world that peoples'
passions should be aroused over a wider sphere than that of the
immediate territory in dispute. There are, after all, ideas and ideals
at stake which affect us all. So, however errenous or poorly informed or
lazily reasoned these passions find their expression, I think it might
be even more worrying if nobody did care enough to risk having and
stating a view. I would think that our mettle is tested not by how
successfully we can side-step unpleasantness but in how we attempt
resolution because, inevitably and forever, there will be both
misunderstandings and conflicts of interest.

"At the age of four, [George S. Kaufman's] mother told him that an aunt
was coming to visit and asked, 'It wouldn't hurt to be nice to her,
would it?' to which he replied, 'That depends on your threshold of
pain.'"

I am tempted to quote about war from this book I got from the library
today called 'the Portable Curmudgeon' but this is no time for flippancy
in that regard so I'll quote Oscar Wilde on music instead: "Musical
people always want one to be perfectly dumb at the very moment when one
is longing to be absolutely deaf."
Then again, Belle and Sebastian weren't around in Oscar's day...

have a nice weekend folks #:D
Gordon

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