Getting Around to Updating

So, last night I came up with a ton of writing for The Fourth Rewrite. :) A bit of going back and editing, too, taking out a weak bit earlier on and replacing it with something tastier.

It was something Emma said, when I read out a bit of the story to her in my flat the other night. She had no idea how well I can write. I read out some of my poetry to her, as well, which was well-received.

Anyway, I found out last night that David Carradine is dead. According to the Beeb, "Thai police told the BBC a hotel maid found the 72-year-old naked in a wardrobe with a cord around his neck and other parts of his body."

According to webofevil, however, the original report reads:-

"Thai police told the BBC the 72-year-old was found by a hotel maid sitting in a wardrobe with a rope around his neck and genitals on Thursday morning."

What better way for a 72 y.o. to go, than accidentally and in an amusing compromising position, naked but for ropes tenderly wrapped about his neck and genitalia, for the cleaning maid to find one.

Apart from the serious wish that I be 30 years older than that, and that my demise should occur in the presence of at least two pretty young people (minimum age 21 y.o) in as heightened a state of sexual arousal as I at my terminal moment, I can't imagine having a happier ending for me.

Rest in peace, Grasshopper. :)

Today's 'Scope

Add a spark to your life today, dear Cancer. It could be that things are getting stale and boring for you. If this is the case, consider the possibility that you are simply not challenging yourself nearly enough. Remember that you are responsible for lighting your own fire. You have the perfect opportunity to get something started today, so go for it. Feel free to bring in other people to help get your mind in motion.


So, does anybody want to join my cult?

Reading Matter Today At A4e

- "How To Manage People," Michael Armstrong, part of The Sunday Times' Creating Success series

- The Oxford "A Dictionary of Latin Words and Phrases"

- Sun Tzu's "The Art of War"

- "The Klingon Dictionary," Marc Okrand

Spite

This man represents all that is bad in politics.

I've met his kind before. From a very young age, deceitful little men like this made my life Hell.

His biggest act in the Cabinet was to put me, and a million people, out on the dole claiming JSA "to save money." We now know that he was himself skimming the pot and being a scrounger who was more than a little averse to doing work (work, that is, that put others before himself, it would seem).

And his last act as a Cabinet member, next to running away like a coward, was to (metaphorically) stand in the doorway of Number 10 as it was closing, turn around sharply and effectively yell "LEAVE NOW, BROWN! NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH NYAH!" as the door closed, before running away like a giggling, malicious schoolboy.

What a wheeze! What a jolly jape! Ho ho ho, what?

The prick's gone. He ran away before he could be properly booted. He messed the country up, and ran off before it was time for him to take responsibility for his actions.

If he falls into a canal, I hope I'll be around to ignore his pleas for aid.

Witch Bottle!

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One more minister quits, and a new face enters ...

Damn the first. John Hutton, another Cabinet minister, walked out of the Cabinet today. Unlike that weasel who is his predecessor, Hutton (who once occupied that hated spot of DWP minister himself) did not spit in Brown's face.

And now Sir Alan Sugar ... is set to receive a peerage. *jaw drop* Damn.

Should've hired him earlier. Then Sir Alan could have yelled "You're fired!" at all those seedy, sordid little wimps in the Cabinet before they got a chance to run.

The Fourth Rewrite, Book One

Yes, I know I've said about it being complete before. But now it really is complete, all bar the editing, publication, copies of my book flying off the shelves etc. etc.

I have two more books of this thing to write, however, so I can't even think of resting yet. Suffice it to say that, for the moment, I am content with what I have done, and I look forward to getting Book Two now underway.

My aim is to get Book Two wrapped, and a good chunk of Book Three started, before I contemplate approaching the publishers. Unless I hear of a publisher who will take the manuscript of Book One right now, that is.

They'd be in for a long read. The bloody thing's a hundred and five thousand words already.