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Birthday wishful thinking

Kim Bah Lee — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 09:44:00 +0000

Tomorrow is my birthday. I’ll be twenty-nine years old. Mrs K has intimated at the *mother* of all presents, but that won’t be here until Christmas, all things being well.

But I can’t wait that long to be showered with gifts. Here’s what I want:

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes
How NOT to Write a Novel by Howard Mittelmark and Sandra Newman
How to Sell by Clancy Martin and
The Junior Officers’ Reading Club by Patrick Hennessey

I’d also like the motivation necessary to get off my fat arse and:

Get to the gym
Write a novel that begins with the line “At the end of his garden, in a shed no bigger than his daughter’s new car, Charles Lamb Goodley reflected on his first experience of auto-asphyxiation, which on assessment had been rather underwhelming, and left him with a welt on his neck that reminded him of Australia.”
Develop innate musical ability
->insert middle-class arriviste cliché here<-

Can you help?

That’s not a Dali!

Kim Bah Lee — Fri, 12 Jun 2009 08:02:08 +0000

Dali’s gone to the dogs. Proof that it’s not just the Maltese media who can’t always match photos with articles. This gem from today’s Times:

The article says “Ecumenical Council by Salvador Dali, is inspected by Tim McKew, right, at an exhibition of the Spanish artist …”

Pygmy Jerboa: appraisal in verse

Kim Bah Lee — Tue, 26 May 2009 14:52:04 +0000

O! Jerboa! small and peculiar!
Your feet like a bird;
Your jump like a flea;
Your tail like a rat.

O! Jerboa! living proof
(Should proof be needed)
That our creator is not impartial
to occasional bouts of silliness.