Sinister: Don't be talking to me about that crowd

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Muslin prints, silk, dames and dowagers, jingle of
harnesses, hoofthuda lowringing in the baking
causeway.

HMV Dublin is still there 10 years on. It has tons of
good records - about 20 different LPs by Ella
Fitzgerald. I was a tad surprised. They have some
Lloyd Cole LPs, too. Readers in Ireland should go and
buy them. Readers in England should stop and buy them.

The rainstorms blasting across Merrion Square. Declan
Kiberd out in paperback, though not in person. The
invisibility of the baths in Tara Street. Baths? What
baths? Perhaps the map just meant that the apartment
building contained baths. Then why didn't it add:
'cookers'? 'Tara Street' remains a lovely name, I've
always said it. The two hours' schlepp South in the
midst of the night. The nonchalance with which
Bewley's have a James Joyce Room with no other
reference to the man. The lights of Dun Laoghaire and
the Pigeon House receding through the rain from the
deck of the Ulysses. (Yes - the Ulysses.) Nora
Barnacle's Food Emporium. Why does Boylan's Brasserie
sell Buck Mulligan's Chicken? Why chicken? 'My
father's a bird'. The children who discussed Titanic.

- I heard that it wasn't true when they were sailing,
but it was true when they sank.
- How could they have sunk if they weren't sailing?

Honestly, the perversity of that one reminded me of
Myles. Maybe it was cos I had Myles in my hand at the
time, like a divil for the books.

The Kaiser said that maybe we should write about
things from the archives. But Kaiser - I do!

Maybe I should join his foot. ball. team. Then I might
catch up with where he's headed. He's heading for
1998. That's OK, but I still think we should aim for a
bit further back.

Cabbage boiled over and talked about picknickers. Name
your colour, son, and don't change it. It's like
taking a pen.

The Velocity Girl surprised us all with her skilful
imitations of Catholic hack Burgess. She left a load
of fashion tips that I couldn't follow. She certainly
is front, I mean, back, I mean, de retour.

Anne Bancroft used the new verb 'geehawed', and said
that people on sinister were gradually becoming more
familiar. The thing is, in my case they're gradually
becoming *less* familiar.

She also said that folk were in a tizzy about B&S
playing. And they are, but heaven knows I'm not. I'm
more excited about the results of the Barcelona
Summit. Was a plastic-guitar treaty signed? And did
protesters lurk beyond the lines of riot gas and tear
police, crying "I speet on your 70s WHO references!!
and "Your All Things Must Pass blows!"? 

Honey said we needed more 'flaming'. I agree, it's
good. Here goes: Edna Welthorpe is a reactionary cow
who probably voted for Perot. That's how 'dumb' she
is! Plus, she never posts, also. She's probably not
even reading this. You know why? She can't read!

Cor.

More of that later. Meantime, I have to go back to HMV
and think about David Jones and Leicester City Bowie.


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