A bad thing happened yesterday. We were fixing up Hector's dinner and had Pointless on the TV - pretty normal afternoon routine - when the show flashed up a full screen image of Chairman Mao.
Hector lost it and for the rest of the evening, gave the TV a wide berth and was acting like something awful was about to happen. I guess when you're not expecting somebody to show up in your house and suddenly, there they are (especially Chairman Mao) it can have a pretty adverse effect on your psyche.
Tonight, he is still very wary of the TV just in case that Mao fellow turns up again.
Dog's are weird sometimes.
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Book shopping this evening - there's a lot of good stuff around at the moment, which is also weird because last week I couldn't find a damn thing. Anyway, this is today's acquire:
I think I shall down tools, throw the big red switch and nest in a corner of the lounge with it later. This is something I've been considering a lot lately. It's frighteningly easy to become a person who feels the need to take out a magical miniature machine in order to contribute to a world that shouts and points at everything all at the same time.
Have you ever sat back and considered exactly how much a tool of your tool you have become?
I don't want either of those things, do you?
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Now that I've pretty much finished The Family Of Noise, I don't ever want to write a book in that way again. It's been pretty fractal along the way. The important thing is that I learned something, i.e: there must be a better way to write a book than the way I wrote that one.
Having said that - dancing stars are only created out of chaos, so don't quote me on any of that. I might just change my mind if it doesn't work.
Just thought I would drop that in the run here being as it was in my head.
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What else can I tell you - yesterday I interviewed Darcy Oake. We talked for a long time about many things including Harry Blackstone, the psychology of human beings and how bad your mobile phone reception can be in London - a real-live first world problem, believe me. I'll post the interview here when it's done and link it up and all of those other things but first I must publish it elsewhere (obviously) and I'll link to that as soon as it's alive and kicking too.
I also decided that I want one of these - it's a Citroen DS - because this is just the kind of thing someone like me needs to drive. It's what's known as a measure. When I can afford to buy one of these fully restored, then I shall consider myself, officially 'getting somewhere'.
It's not a 'fuck you' statement like an Aston Martin or anything. I consider it a perfectly reasonable measure of getting somewhere at around £15,000.
Which really just leaves me with this:
And this: