The Tin Drummer
Blog URL http://thetindrummer.blogspot.com
Located Cheltenham, Gloucestershire United Kingdom
Tags cricket, politics, love, drink, literature, nuclear war, sex
Ranting, thoughts, muses, wanderings, shouting into the ether, occasionally crying...that sort of thing, you know.
Latest Blog Posts
- Three Types of Simile on Oct 31, 2009 in similes literature
Here's something I wrote while deeply bored some time ago. As you can imagine, I'm still desperately bored - too bored even to blog propely, though I've started posting again over at CTS. I had a volume of Hardy and a cup of tea to hand when I wrote...
- Oh Who Am I (The Susan Howatch Edition) on Aug 21, 2009 in C of E meandering
Well, clearly I'm not Charles Ashworth. Nor even Neville Aysgarth. It would be a minor blasphemy to put me as Jon Darrow.I'd be massively offended if you called me Christian Aysgarth.i'd be unbelievably gratified if you thought I was Lyle Ashworth (n...
- Bullshit Proof on Aug 20, 2009 in self mockery life music
Here's what I will never be trapped by again:1) The "soulmate" crap. That's about control, guilt and the pretence of tender-heartedness. If someone says it to you, ignore it. Falling for it is irredeemably beta.2) The relationship shit-tests like "we...
- Cricket and Game on Aug 11, 2009 in cricket
OK. Here are some facts.Strauss = betaCook = betaBopara = betaBell = omegaCollingwood = lesser alphaPrior = alphaBroad = alphaSwann = betaAnderson = betaHarmison = lesser omegaOnions = betaWatson = alphaKatich = betaPonting = alphaHussey = betaClarke...
- Not Dead Yet on Aug 7, 2009 in sex cars Fiesta Focus love
No, not dead yet. Despite all predictions, of his arse, his head, his bollocks: he is not quite dead. Citalopram is a soft but stupid drug, which makes you shake and makes you tired. Especially when you ignore your quack's orders to give up the booze...
- She Blinded Me With Science on Jun 13, 2009 in depression
Time for another experiment, dear readers. This time, unlike my previous posts on the subject of mind-altering substances, this one is entirely serious. Doubtless it will come as no surprise to my remaining readers (ie Cheeks and Matt), but I, along...
- After Room 101 on Jun 4, 2009 in Nineteen Eighty Four
Winston, purified, is supposedly filled with "ourselves" - meaning the desires and wishes of the Inner Party. He drinks, he gets up late, he hangs out in Chestnut Tree Cafe, he has a sinecure. He meets Julia and their meeting is awkward, punctuated b...
