Off to the cinema tomorrow with my lady and a friend. We're going to see 'Silver Lining'. Can't remember if it's been hailed or hooted by the critics, but the trailer looks interesting. Hitchcock is also on but a mate in the UK said it's only a so so film. Hitchcock was of course the man behind 'Psycho' and 'The Birds' and other noteworthy movies. He was a great one for put downs too. I think it was Gore Vidal who said of him, "He's not unlike Hitler...but without the charm". I used to like Sam Goldwyn's spoken cock ups: "We'll jump off that bridge when we come to it". "I can answer in 2 words - im- possible".
More cuts on the way for the people of the UK, well not the UK as Wales and Scotland are exempt. 'We're all in it together?' I don't think so! Also Cameron and his Eton chum Osborne have just found some money for another military adventure, this time in Mali. Our pensioners can starve or freeze, and nurses remain underpaid because his Government can't afford to pay them enough, but when it comes to a little war activity he's the man! He's found the dosh for that alright.
Politics is derived from two words, Poly meaning many, and tics meaning blood sucking insects. It is also the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it wrongly, and then applying unsuitable remedies. I suppose its a case of, a fool and his money are soon elected.
My next door neighbour is a lawyer and a politician. The only difference between a dead rat laying in the road and a dead lawyer or politician lying in the road, is that there are skid marks around the rat. I broke a mirror in my house in the UK over Christmas, it's supposed to bring you seven years bad luck, my neighbour said he thought he could get that reduced to five.....
Crime is definitely on the increase here in Spain. Only yesterday I was the victim of an attempted mugging. I could tell he was an amateur though...there was still butter on the knife. My mate Henry got put in gaol for something he didn't do....he didn't run fast enough !
I was giving a talk on my first novel. It's about me being in a Middle Eastern gaol. I asked the audience if any of them had been caught stealing in the arab world. I asked for a show of hands...
I have never killed a politician, but I have read many a politicians obituaries with a great deal of satisfaction.
Whilst promoting one of my books in Belfast I told a shocked audience that I did not believe in God.A lady in the audience asked me if the God I didn't believe in was Catholic or Protestant...
And just remember, in Britain a dog is for Christmas. In Korea it could be for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
My father used to read the Times every morning. If his name didn't appear in the Obituaries he'd go on to enjoy the day. Let's face it if life was fair, Elvis would still be alive, and all those daft impersonators would be dead!
Happy & peaceful weekend to all.