Go out and get your bawbaw.

Happy Seventeenth Birthday to Erin Campbell!
you may remember her from such comicals as "This is your lunch'
(enlarge each tier separately)
(From The Dance of Lifey death in Three Piece Suit.)
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Meanwhile, "It's a pain in the gary," said the other one, wee hayley campbell (who took the photograph above), at the beginning of a conversation that had me phoning our local chirpy cockney, mr White, and ended with me finding the cover of this week's London Time Out magazine. Soon as I set me minces on this I said, 'very From 'ell, dontcher fink?'
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In other news:
Drunk takes a free bike ride on car roof-
Jul 3, "The driver and his wife, when stopped by the police, said they heard a noise while waiting at a traffic light, but did not realize they were taking on an extra passenger."

First photo of the Ashgrove groper!

Police catch the blackguard on surveillance camera!

May 27, 2007-Detective Inspector Bob Hytch said the offender – an opportunistic groper who often smiles at his unsuspecting victims – is responsible for the attacks committed between January 13 and November 22 last year. "He mostly rides past and turns around or approaches them from behind and always surprises his victims. He gropes them on the bottom, breast and groin,

THE FIRST I hear of the photo is the hystercal laughter of my daughter Erin. Dad, he looks just like you!

Yes, but that's not my bike.
Yes, but it says "The offender strikes in daylight between 8am and late afternoon, often using different types of bicycles, including a woman's bike." That's when you're out and about, and remember you borrowed mum's bike for a year after you broke your own.
"There are lots of reasons he may have access to a lady's bike. He may have access to several cheap bikes; the ones he has used are not sophisticated at all," Det-Insp Hytch said.
He's wearing one of your shirts, and look, he's got your esky on his head: Det-Insp Hytch said the foam helmet worn by the offender was rare and was not stocked in major cycling stores.
Wait, it's the phone. hayley from London
Dad! that's the funniest thing ever. I can't stop laughing.
How do you know about It?
Erin sent the link
aw. jeezis.
hey, dad, look on the bright side, they estimated your age at 38. I have to go and tell my flatmates my dad's a perv.
okay, honeybee.
...thanks for roning.

(line drawing above is from After the Snooter)

Thoughts of an insomniac

J ust got up to throw the cat out, Fred Flintstone style. I look on the floor to see if my pal Breach is home yet. yup. Callum's in a sleeping bag too. They forgot to turn the computer off. I'll just type something before I do it.
Last night the wife and I deposited our daughter Erin at her final year school formal. The lass has grown up beautifully. But I don't know what's going on in the heads of the young 'uns I confess. Why not so long ago if you arrived here unannounced on a saturday night you might have caught me in my bathrobe, intended for bed, momentarily distracted into confiscating the lass's party drinks as she headed out the door with a box full of bacardi boozers, (or breezers or cruisers or whatever they're called).
How did it come to this, I asks ya? Eddie Campbell confiscating people's booze???
hayley campbell is home from London for two weeks and Breach has been up from Sydney staying for a few days. Being saturday night he thought it odd that one does not 'go out ' any more, and so he 'went out'. It's a good thing I wrote my book about all that when I was young and thought an interminable round of sleeping bags on other peoples floors a romantic thing. If I were to write that book now it would be much too satirical and mean, for the notion of waking up in a sleeping bag on a strange floor, with the nagging thought that I might like to vomit, fills me with unutterable horror.

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La Times on the series of Penguin paperback covers by Graphic novelists-april 29.
"Other jackets offer a denser and more verbal experience. Chris Ware's work for "Candide" is so typically elliptical that you can spend nearly as much time with it as with the novel. For a new and substantially expanded edition of "The Portable Dorothy Parker," the Canadian artist Seth created an illustrated table of contents, then used the inside back flap of the jacket for a funny and tender continuity life. Seth uses low-key art-deco colors, ruby-red and green, to hint at the classic Parker period of the Algonquin Round Table and the early days of the New Yorker. Bits of Parker's poetry are sprinkled throughout the design.
Most often the artists are selected by Penguin art director Paul Buckley, but occasionally authors chose for themselves. Thomas Pynchon said, grandly: "Sure, I'll put 'Gravity's Rainbow' in your series — but you have to get Frank Miller." Amazingly, they did."

things that happen while you weren't paying attention. (i think from three years ago, left on my desktop by breach)